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    Chocolate has a long history originating in Mesoamerica over 2,000 years ago where the Maya first consumed cacao seeds as a bitter, spicy drink. Europeans were introduced to chocolate in the 16th century by the Spanish conquistadors who brought cacao seeds back to Europe. Over the centuries, chocolate evolved from a drink to include solid chocolate bars and other confections as machines were invented to mechanically produce chocolate and new ingredients like sugar were added. Today, there are several main types of chocolate including dark, milk, and white chocolate which vary in ingredients and flavor profiles.

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    Chocolate has a long history originating in Mesoamerica over 2,000 years ago where the Maya first consumed cacao seeds as a bitter, spicy drink. Europeans were introduced to chocolate in the 16th century by the Spanish conquistadors who brought cacao seeds back to Europe. Over the centuries, chocolate evolved from a drink to include solid chocolate bars and other confections as machines were invented to mechanically produce chocolate and new ingredients like sugar were added. Today, there are several main types of chocolate including dark, milk, and white chocolate which vary in ingredients and flavor profiles.

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    Chocolate has a long history originating in Mesoamerica over 2,000 years ago where the Maya first consumed cacao seeds as a bitter, spicy drink. Europeans were introduced to chocolate in the 16th century by the Spanish conquistadors who brought cacao seeds back to Europe. Over the centuries, chocolate evolved from a drink to include solid chocolate bars and other confections as machines were invented to mechanically produce chocolate and new ingredients like sugar were added. Today, there are several main types of chocolate including dark, milk, and white chocolate which vary in ingredients and flavor profiles.

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    Chocolate has a long history originating in Mesoamerica over 2,000 years ago where the Maya first consumed cacao seeds as a bitter, spicy drink. Europeans were introduced to chocolate in the 16th century by the Spanish conquistadors who brought cacao seeds back to Europe. Over the centuries, chocolate evolved from a drink to include solid chocolate bars and other confections as machines were invented to mechanically produce chocolate and new ingredients like sugar were added. Today, there are several main types of chocolate including dark, milk, and white chocolate which vary in ingredients and flavor profiles.

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    History of chocolate

    Chocolate is a food made from cacao beans. Each People eats almost 12 pounds of chocolate per year. The cacao tree, whose pods contain seeds that can be processed into chocolate, was discovered 2,000 years ago in the tropical rainforests of the Americas. The first people known to have consumed cacao were the Mayas.They mixed ground cacao (cocoa) seeds with seasonings to make a bitter, spicy drink that was believed to be a health elixir. To the Mayans, cocoa pods symbolized life and fertility. In central Mexico, the Aztecs believed that wisdom and power came from eating the fruit of the cocoa tree, and that it had aphrodisiac qualities. Europeans got their first taste of chocolate in 1519, when Montezuma offered the spicy drink to Spanish explorer Corts and his army. The Spanish conquistadors brought cocoa seeds back to Spain, where they introduced new spices and sugar to the liquid concoction called "xocoatl".

    Chocolate through the years


    The first machine-made chocolate was produced in Barcelona in 1780 The first solid chocolate bar was developed by British chocolate maker Fry & Sons in the early 1800s. In 1868, the first Valentine's Day box of chocolates was introduced [by Richard Cadbury In 1875, the first milk chocolate was introduced to the market by Daniel Peter of Switzerland. 1930 Frank Mars makes the first Snickers candy bar. 1657 The first chocolate house is opened in England by a Frenchman. 1674 A London coffeehouse sells the first solid chocolate in a stick form. Milka, was brought to life in 1901 Vilniaus Pergal was founded in 1952, and is the biggest confectionery factory among the Baltic nations. The Milky Way bar was created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and originally manufactured in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1911, Frank C. Mars made the first Mars candies in his Tacoma, Washington kitchen Roshen was founded in 2001. Ukrainian chocolate is Crown Korona appeared on the world in 1995 year Sweetest Day is celebrated each year on the third Saturday of October. In reality, the history of Sweetest Day dates back to 1922 when a man by the name of Herbert Birch Kingston wanted to bring cheer to local orphans, home bound people and others he felt may feel a little "forgotten" during other holidays. Kingston worked for a candy company in Cleveland, Ohio and started giving out candy to all the little "sweets" in the community. Following his initial efforts, local candy makers in Cleveland began to continue the tradition of giving and called it "The Sweetest Day of the Year" and distributed over 10,000 boxes of candy to over 26 Cleveland area charities their first year.

    Sweetest day

    Types of chocolate

    Dark chocolate contains healthful substances similar to those found in tea, red wine, fruits, and vegetables. Milk chocolate is the best-selling variety of chocolate in the world today. It is sweeter and smoother than dark chocolate. In many countries, white chocolate is not classified as chocolate at all, as it contains no cocoa solids. White "chocolate" is the most fragile form of all chocolates.

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