I love chocolate but I am allergic to it. I would love to know more about it.
I would hate to be allergic to it but chocolate is made in paste, liquid or block form or used as a flavoring in other foods
Yes, I do get to eat white chocolate though. Do you know much about the history of it?
Evidence of earliest use dates back to 1900 BC
Wow, that is crazy! I thought it was much more modern than that
No Cacao has been grown by many different cultures for at least three millenia
Do different cultures use it for different things or anything?
Yes the maya and aztecs made chocolate drinks with it
That's cool. I love how long it has been used.
and cocoa butter in varying proportions, without any added sugar. Powdered baking cocoa, which contains more fiber than it contains cocoa butter, can be processed with alkali to produce dutch cocoa. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, a combination of cocoa solids, cocoa butter or added vegetable oils, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids.
Chocolate is one
List of chocolate-covered foods
This is a list of chocolate-covered foods. Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown, food preparation of "Theobroma cacao" seeds, roasted and ground, often flavored, as with vanilla. It is made in the form of a liquid, paste or in a block or used as a flavoring ingredient in other sweet foods.
Chocolate-covered foods.
- Breakaway – a brand of biscuit with a chocolate coating produced by Nestlé
- Chocolate bar – many varieties