Who Discovered Chocolate?

Chocolate

Who doesn't crave for chocolate? Billions of us do! do you know who discovered chocolate? Here's the facts:

• Chocolate was discovered by Aztecs, Central America, around 3100 years ago

• It was a celebratory like beverage and status symbol for Aztecs and Maya

• Researchers found out that a chemical compound that comes exclusively from the cacao plant - the source of chocolate - in pottery vessels dating from about 1100 BC in Puerto Escondido, Honduras

• Chocolate enjoyed by later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Maya and Aztecs was made ground cacao seeds with added seasonings, producing a spicy, frothy drink.

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Source: 

. "Chocolate invented 3,100 years ago by the Aztecs - but they were trying to make beer  ." [Online] 13 November 2007. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493335/Chocolate-invented-3-100-years-ago-Aztecs--trying-make-beer.html>.