CHOCOLATE🍫

Nowadays chocolate has been top trending and loved by young, adults and old ones also. People like to give boxes of chocolates as present, as a sign of love or friendship, or as a token of appreciation to a host who has invited them to their home. But to be honest no one knows that from where the chocolate was originated?

Chocolate is a delicious food made from the cocoa tree's beans, which have bitter taste and must be fermented to develop flavor. After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned and roasted. The shells are then removed to produce cocoa nibs, which are then ground in to cocoa mass, which can be separated in to two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter. While chocolate in its purest form is dark, milk chocolate is manufactured by adding milk powder. While white chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar and milk, but no cocoa solids, and so purists would say that it is not real chocolate, although white chocolate has best taste of all!

Chocolate was first prepared as a drink 2000 years ago, and indeed there is evidence from a Mexican archaeological site to prove this. Documents dating from 1500 years ago in the Mayan civilization state tht the drinking of chocolate played an important part in cultural ceremonies. Cocoa beans were used as currency by Aztec civilization.

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