Cocoa (cacao, also called cocoa. ) One of the three major beverage plants in the world, native to tropical America, can be used as beverage and chocolate candy, with rich nutrition, mellow taste and fragrance. Cocoa beans are the main raw materials for making cocoa powder and cocoa butter. Cocoa butter and cocoa powder are mainly used as drinks to make chocolate candy, cakes and ice cream. Dried beans can be used as a tonic and stimulant for the sick and weak, and also as a drink (this drink is called "one of the three non-alcoholic drinks in the world"). The process of cocoa spreading from South America to Europe, Asia and Africa is tortuous and long. /kloc-cocoa was not known to people living outside the Amazon plain before the 0/6th century, when it was not the raw material of cocoa drinks. Because seeds are rare and precious, local people use cocoa seeds (cocoa beans) as money, which is called "cocoa breath-taking power". /kloc-In the first half of the 6th century, cocoa was introduced to Mexico through the isthmus of China and America, and then to the territory of the Inca Empire in present-day southern Brazil, which was quickly loved by local people. They collected wild cocoa, mashed the seeds and processed them into a drink called "Qiaoketuoli" (meaning "bitter water"). /kloc-In the middle of 0/6th century, Europeans came to America, discovered cocoa and realized that it was a valuable cash crop. They developed cocoa drinks and chocolates on the basis of "chocolate". /kloc-At the end of the 6th century, the first chocolate factory in the world was established by the Spanish government at that time, but at first some nobles were unwilling to accept the food and drinks that could be made. Even in the 8th century, a British nobleman regarded cocoa as a "rascal from South America". Cocoa was named very late, and it was not until18th century that Linnaeus, a Swedish erudite, named it. specific epithet is a "cocoa tree". Later, because chocolate and cocoa powder became the most important energy supplements and played a huge role in the sports field, people called the cocoa tree "God Grain Tree" and the cocoa drink "God Drink".