Chocolate originally comes from cocoa beans, which are the fruits of wild cocoa trees in the tropical rain forest of Central America. /kloc-More than 0/300 years ago, Maya Indians in Yoktan made a drink called chocolate from roasted cocoa beans. Early chocolate was a greasy drink. Because the fried cocoa beans contained more than 50% oil, people began to add flour and other starch substances to the drink to reduce its greasy degree.

Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez discovered in Mexico at the beginning of16th century that the local Aztec king drank a drink made of cocoa beans with water and spices. Cortez brought it back to Spain in 1528 and planted cocoa trees on an island in West Africa.

The Spanish ground cocoa beans into powder and added water and sugar. After heating, this drink is called "chocolate" and is deeply loved by the public. Soon its production method was learned by Italians and soon spread all over Europe.

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The story of the origin of chocolate

Cocoa bean, one of the raw materials of chocolate, was brought back to Spain by Spanish explorer Cortes in 1526 and presented to the king at that time, which made Europeans regard it as a kind of ecstasy and set off a frenzy. Later, around16th century, the Spanish made chocolate "sweet". They mixed cocoa powder and spices in sugarcane juice to make a sweet drink.

At 1876, a Swiss named Peter was ingenious and added some milk to the above drinks, completing the whole process of modern chocolate creation. Soon, it is believed that liquid chocolate will be dehydrated and concentrated into chocolate candy bars that are easy to carry and store.

1828, Van Houten of the Netherlands thought of removing 2/3 of the fat and making it easy to drink. /kloc-at the end of 0/9, D.M. Bede of Switzerland invented adding milk to chocolate to make it taste better, which is the embryonic form of chocolate today.

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