Gopherson Chocolate is a domestic chocolate brand, which is mid-range and has a taste that is more suitable for Chinese people. Launched by Smiler Food Co., Ltd., Gopher comes from Latin, meaning "beloved".
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Chocolate (chocolate is also translated as chocolate) is native to Central and South America. Its originator is "xocolatl", which means "bitter water". Its main raw material, cocoa beans, is produced in the narrow strip of land within 18 degrees north and south latitude of the equator. When used as a drink, it is often called "hot chocolate" or cocoa.
Chocolate originally came from the cocoa beans of the wild cocoa tree in the tropical rainforests of Central America. More than 1,300 years ago, the Yokotan Mayan Indians made a drink called chocolate from roasted cocoa beans. Early chocolate was a greasy drink. Because fried cocoa beans contained more than 50% oil, people began to add flour and other starch substances to the drink to reduce its greasiness.
Hernando Cortez, a Spanish explorer in the early 16th century, discovered in Mexico that the local Aztec king drank a drink made from cocoa beans, water and spices. Cortez After tasting it, he brought it back to Spain in 1528 and planted cocoa trees on a small island in West Africa.
The Spanish ground cocoa beans into powder, added water and sugar to it, and heated it to make a drink called "chocolate", which was very popular among the public. Soon its production method was learned by the Italians, and soon spread throughout Europe.
In 1642, chocolate was introduced to France as a medicine and consumed by Catholics.
In 1765, chocolate entered the United States and was praised by Benjamin Franklin as a "healthy and nutritious dessert."
In 1828, Van HOUTEN of the Netherlands built a cocoa press to squeeze out the remaining powder from the cocoa liquid. The cocoa butter pressed by Van HOUTEN was mixed with crushed cocoa beans and white sugar, and the world's first chocolate was born.
After fermentation, drying and roasting, the cocoa beans are processed into cocoa liquor, cocoa butter and cocoa powder, which will produce a rich and unique aroma. This natural aroma is the theme of chocolate.
In 1847, cocoa butter was added to the chocolate drink to create the chewable chocolate bars we know today.
In 1875, Switzerland invented the method of making milk chocolate, resulting in the chocolate you see.
In 1914, the First World War stimulated the production of chocolate, and chocolate was transported to the battlefield and distributed to soldiers.
Chocolate is made from a mixture of raw materials, but its flavor mainly depends on the taste of cocoa itself. Cocoa contains theobromine and caffeine, which bring a pleasant bitter taste; the tannins in cocoa have a light astringency, and cocoa butter can produce a fat and smooth taste.
The bitterness, astringency, sourness of cocoa, and the smoothness of cocoa butter, with the help of sugar or milk powder, milk fat, malt, lecithin, vanillin and other auxiliary materials, and exquisite processing technology, make chocolate not only maintain It captures the unique taste of cocoa and makes it more harmonious, pleasant and delicious.