Chocolate (also translated as chocolate) is a mixed food with cocoa as the main ingredient, which can be a drink or a solid dessert. Cocoa beans, the main raw material, are produced in the narrow strip within the equator latitude 18. When making drinks, it is often called hot chocolate or cocoa. Cocoa is native to South America and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Historical chocolate was first made by Mexicans. /kloc-in the early 5th century, Spanish explorer hernando? Cortes discovered in Mexico that the local Aztec king was drinking a drink made of cocoa beans with water and spices. Cortes brought it back to Spain on 1528 and planted cocoa trees on an island in West Africa. The Spanish grind cocoa beans into powder, add water and sugar, and heat them to make a drink called chocolate. This drink is very popular. Soon the method of making this drink was learned by Italians and soon spread all over Europe. 1642, chocolate was introduced to France as a medicine and eaten by Catholics. 1765, chocolate entered the United States, was Thomas? Jefferson praised the advantages of health and nutrition. 1847, cocoa butter was added to chocolate drinks to make what is now known as chewable chocolate bars. 1875, Switzerland invented the method of making solid chocolate, which resulted in the chocolate we see now. 19 14, World War I stimulated the production of chocolate, which was transported to the battlefield and distributed to soldiers. Cocoa beans are fermented, dried, baked and ground to make cocoa juice. Cocoa juice can be made into cocoa butter and cocoa powder, or high-quality crude cocoa juice can be further processed to make chocolate.