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Chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world. It is made by grinding cocoa beans, the fruit of tropical plant cocoa, and then adding sugar and spices. Chocolate has a strong fragrance, and it can be used to make all kinds of sugar, cakes and ice cream.

However, the original chocolate was not used to make candy, cakes and ice cream. About 711 years ago, Mexican Indians baked cocoa beans and crushed them, then added pepper, spices, corn flour and water to make a drink, which was the original chocolate.

Columbus was the first European to discover cocoa beans and chocolate, but he was not interested in it himself. Later, the Spanish explorer Cortez was greatly refreshed after drinking chocolate drink, so he thought that this drink could overcome fatigue and enhance resistance, and realized that cocoa beans could be a cash cow, so he soon established his own cocoa plantation to produce cocoa beans for export to Europe.

Since chocolate spread to Europe, Spanish chefs have replaced pepper in chocolate drinks with sugar, which has fundamentally changed the taste of chocolate. French chefs poured caramel on almonds and wrapped it in chocolate, thus making almond chocolate. Later, Dutch chemist Van Holten invented the method of extracting cocoa oil from cocoa beans, paving the way for the large-scale production of chocolate. In 1847, the world's first solid chocolate came out. Shortly thereafter, the Swiss added milk powder to chocolate, giving it a creamy texture, thus producing the world's first cream chocolate.