Chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world, but few people know that it was (0) FIRST produced thousands of years ago in Central America. The ancient Mayans and Aztecs used cacao beans to a bitter drink that was very different from the sweet chocolate we enjoy today.
When Spanish explorers arrived in the region in the sixteenth century, they tried this unusual drink and decided to some cacao beans back to Europe. At first, only rich people could to buy chocolate, because it was very expensive. It was not the nineteenth century that machines made it possible to produce chocolate cheaply and in large quantities.
Today, chocolate is eaten over the world, and the industry is worth billions of euros. Scientists have also discovered that dark chocolate, when eaten in small amounts, may actually be for your heart.