Earth is the only planet in our Solar system where chocolates are available. Now the varieties of chocolate in the market is countless.
The first chocolate:
First Chocolate For Eating
The inventor of ‘chocolate for eating’ is unknown, but in 1847, Fry & Sons of Bristol, which merged with Cadbury Limited in 1919, sold a ‘chocolate delicieux a manger’. Many people credit this as the very first chocolate bar for eating. John Cadbury added a similar product to his range in 1849, and by today’s standards these original chocolate bars would not be considered very palatable.
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http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_chocolate/eating_chocolate.htm
Latest News of First Chocolate
Residents of Central America were enjoying chocolate drinks more than 3,000 years ago, a half millennium earlier than previously thought, new research shows.
Archaeologists led by John Henderson of Cornell University studied the remains of pottery used in the lower Ulua Valley in northern Honduras about 1,100 BC.
Residue from the pots contained theobromine, which occurs only in the cacao plant, the source of chocolate, the researchers said in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The find dates the first use of chocolate to some 500 years earlier than previously known, they said.
The style of the pottery indicates that cacao was served at important ceremonies to mark weddings and births, according to the authors.
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