Chocolate
What do you know about chocolate? This is about the history of chocolate and its interesting journey from cocoa bean to chocolate bar. Did you know that there’s a World Chocolate Day? It takes place each year on 7 July. Here is the history of chocolate and the interesting journey of chocolate from cocoa bean to chocolate bar. Chocolate Chocolate was first used as a drink over 3,500 years ago in Central America. It was very popular with the Mayans and the Aztecs, who mixed cocoa beans with vanilla or chilli peppers. In fact, cocoa beans were so important to them that they were used as money. Cocoa was first grown in Ecuador, which was, for a long time, the world’s number-one producer of cocoa beans. It is still one of the top ten producers of the beans, but nowadays more than 70 per cent of cocoa beans come from West Africa. Cocoa Beans Cocoa beans come from cocoa trees. These trees grow in tropical forests around the world, from South Ame...