History of Chocolate

The botanists agree that chocolate or cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao) is grown in the Amazon region and the valley Orinoko in South America thousands of years ago. Mayans who first cultivate cacao tree. This habit is also brought when they moved to the plains of Yucatan. Aztec nation and then introduce a bitter chocolate as a beverage. Cocoa beans mixed with corn or grapes that have been fermented and then served in cups made ​​of gold. Aztec emperor named Montezuma has a habit of drinking chocolate more than 50 cups of cocoa per day.

The Spanish colonizers named Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) when colonizing the region initially interested in gold than the contents of the cup chocolate drinks. But he also observed that the Aztec Nation, cocoa or chocolate is also used as seed money. Therefore, he immediately set up some chocolate plantations. Plantation known as "brown gold" was developed and the results are popular, so the Spanish control the trade of cocoa in the 18th century. Then the chocolate was introduced to mainland Europe and made ​​a cake mix ingredients.

In the mid-19th century, the Swiss started to develop and market chocolate as a snack. So brown that used only as a beverage and then developed into snack that melts on the tongue. Switzerland also became famous as the best chocolate producing countries.

Then a smart entrepreneurs like Hershey, Kohler, Lindt, Nestlé, Peter, Suchard and Tobler them into brand-name now-famous chocolate make a great contribution to industrial chocolate. They found the engine more efficient processing of cocoa and chocolate processing methods to find better.

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