{"id":8554,"date":"2016-02-11T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2025-02-16T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T21:22:51","slug":"history-of-chocolate","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/history-of-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"A &lsquo;Short but Sweet&rsquo; History of Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those with a sweet tooth, chocolate is probably something you simply cannot live without.\n</p><p>Even the take-it-or-leave-it types often find themselves struggling to resist the appeal of a Mars bar or a <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/kit-kat-facts%5C/%5C%22">Kit-Kat.\n<p>With so many varieties available, it doesn&rsquo;t even matter whether you don&rsquo;t like dark chocolate or you absolutely love white chocolate \u2013 there&rsquo;s something for everyone.\n</p><p>However, few of us stop to think about the history of chocolate and how it actually came to be on the shelves of our stores today.\n</p><h2>Who first discovered the cocoa tree?\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-212680 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2016%5C/02%5C/chocolate-history-cocoa-tree.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' cocoa tree width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chocolate-history-cocoa-tree.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>We have the Latin Americans to thank for the fact that we have chocolate in such abundance in the 21<sup>st century.\n<p>People who lived in South-east Mexico around the year 1000 BC discovered the cacao tree, although whether they actually used it for anything is a different matter.\n</p><p>Much later, in about 300 AD, the Mayan people came along and decided that they can do a lot of things with these cacao beans.\n</p><p>However, you might be surprised to discover that they didn&rsquo;t start making chocolate cakes and munching on the delicious beans&hellip;\n</p><h2>Chocolate was used as currency&hellip; kind of!\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-212679 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2016%5C/02%5C/chocolate-history-currency.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Lots' of golden chocolate coins width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chocolate-history-currency.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The Mayans began to use cacao beans as a form of currency, buying everything from animals to slaves with the cacao beans.\n</p><p>You&rsquo;d need around 100 beans to buy yourself a slave, which got some people spending hours making counterfeits!\n</p><p>Since chocolate was used as a <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/weird-currency%5C/%5C%22">form of currency, many of the Mayan people simply couldn&rsquo;t afford to eat it.\n<p>Only the wealthy were able to eat and drink chocolate, which was harvested before being fermented and dried.\n</p><p>Lovers of <a title='\"100' facts about chocolate href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/100-chocolate-facts%5C/%5C%22">chocolate may not be surprised by the fact that the Mayans also used their cacao beans during religious ceremonies.\n<p>A bridge and groom would give each other chocolate, and there was even a cacao god which they worshiped.\n</p><h2>From beans&hellip; to chocolate!\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-212678 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2016%5C/02%5C/chocolate-history-beans.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Dark' chocolate pieces and cocoa beans width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chocolate-history-beans.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Fast-forward a few hundred years, and Christopher Columbus had made his way over to this part of the world.\n</p><p>While hauling a large load of supplies onto their ship in 1502, Columbus and his men happened by chance to find some cacao beans when they accidentally fell out.\n</p><p>Seventeen years later, Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s came to conquer <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/mexico-facts%5C/%5C%22">Mexico and tasted some of the cacao beans while he was there.\n<p>He didn&rsquo;t like it at all (what was wrong with him?!) and even said that it was more suitable for pigs than for people.\n</p><p>After he conquered the Aztec Empire, he decided not to get rid of the cacao beans entirely, but to continue using them as currency.\n</p><p>The <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/ancient-aztec-history%5C/%5C%22">Aztecs weren&rsquo;t the only people which Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s conquered, since there were also many islands in the Caribbean that the Spanish ended up owning.\n<p>Some bright person came along and found out that many of these islands had <a title='\"Fun' sugar facts href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/fun-sugar-facts%5C/%5C%22">sugar.\n<p>The act of adding sugar to the cacao beans made the chocolate much less bitter and much more desired as a food substance.\n</p><p>Now that it tasted so good, it seemed that everybody around the world wanted to try it out.\n</p><p>Not only was it being used for medicinal purposes, but by the 17<sup>th&nbsp;Century, cacao plantations were being developed, chocolate houses were opening and large quantities of the stuff was being shipped across the world.\n<h2>Chocolate and Valentine&rsquo;s Day\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-212677 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2016%5C/02%5C/chocolate-history-valentines.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' chocolate love heart width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chocolate-history-valentines.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The association of chocolate with <a title='\"Why' do we give chocolate on valentine day href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/why-do-we-give-chocolate-on-valentines%5C/%5C%22">Valentine&rsquo;s Day really kicked off in 1861, when Richard Cadbury, the founder of the famous </a><a title='\"The' delectable history of cadbury href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/history-of-cadbury%5C/%5C%22">Cadbury&rsquo;s chocolate company, had an idea.\n<p>He thought that by packaging a selection of small chocolates in a heart-shaped box, he would make huge profits when <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/february-14%5C/%5C%22">February 14<sup>th arrived.\n<p>He wasn&rsquo;t wrong, and consumers loved the idea, especially since they could eat the confectionery and then save the beautiful red box as a keepsake!\n</p><p>To this day, you can still find heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates in gift shops and other stores.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>For those with a sweet tooth, chocolate is probably something you simply cannot live without. 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