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Around the 13th century, the Maya of Mexico were replaced by the Aztecs, and the cocoa bean became the equivalent of the country's currency.
At that time, a few beans could buy a fat rabbit, and 100 cocoa beans could buy a strong slave.
At that time, people thought that cocoa beans had a mysterious power, and after eating them, they would have magical hallucinations, so they all wanted to find opportunities to taste once, and it was difficult to find a person who had not tasted cocoa beans.
At that time, cocoa bean drinks did not have today's exquisite production, no attractive aroma and rich taste, no bright appearance, exquisite packaging, and no sweet taste that the public could accept.
However, cocoa beans processed products, with ingredients such as chili peppers or mustard, have a special allure and a mysterious sense of ritual.
So, the story of The Birth of Chocolate looks like an exciting adventure novel, full of thrilling and incredible plot twists.
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The most common classic versions of chocolate origins:
The word "chocolate" is derived from the Aztec word "xocolātl", which literally means "bitter water" (nawatl xocolli "bitter", ātl "water").
Or from the word čikola:-tl, which means "bubble drink".
However, in any text of the contemporaneous period, the original xocolātl cannot be found, nor is there any historical documentary documentation to support it, and its existence is the hypothesis of a certain linguist.
The development and growth of chocolate stems from the injection of European capital and the promotion of industrial technology.
Cocoa drinks have been known since the 1620s and gradually expanded their popularity.
By the 17th century, the drink had changed from cold to hot in Europe, with the addition of sugar flavorings.
Sweet hot drinks, softer and more palatable, were popular despite their popularity, but expensive raw materials limited the popularity of chocolate drinks, which at the time were only enjoyed by a few wealthy people.
In the 1820s, a qualitative leap forward, the Dutch chocolate scientist Conrad Johannes van Hauten invented an inexpensive method of extracting cocoa butter from grated cocoa.
Cocoa butter is easy to solidify into pieces, so people have found to create hard solid chocolate, it is more portable, easy to use, the price is also advantageous, so it gradually replaced the Liquid Chocolate of Europe.
When solid chocolate appeared, the British believed that the first block of "tile" chocolate was produced in the Bristol region of England in 1842.
The French believe that a year ago, in 1841, the French confectionery manufacturer Jean Pietre had invented hard fast chocolate.
In 1875, the Swiss Daniel Peter, after many failed experiments, finally succeeded in adding milk powder to the chocolate ingredient and obtained the first piece of milk chocolate.
Soon after, his partner Henry Nestle began producing the product.
Four years later, another Swissman, Rudolf Lindt, mastered the chocolate quality control method for the first time.
The achievements of these food experts have made Swiss confectioners a long-term mainstay of chocolate production, an advocate of fashion products, and a ruler of various rules.
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Tips on chocolate:
The average fat content of 74 grams of chocolate is 18g (about 55% of the total calories), and 60 grams of milk chocolate contains about 280 kcal.
- The more expensive the variety, the higher the cocoa butter it contains.
——The main alkaloid in cocoa products is theobromine, due to the rapid metabolism of chocolate in the human body, the impact of theobromine on the human body is minimal, so people are eating chocolate, the probability of poisoning is almost zero.
At the same time, theobromine is a strong toxin that can cause fatal harm to many other animals.
The average lethal dose of theobromine to cats and dogs, in proportion to body weight, is 200 to 400 mg/kg body weight.
Horses and parrots are also sensitive to theobromine.
Chocolate tastes bitter, dairy, sweet and salty. - Chocolate is available in black, brown, white, ruby red and green.
(Part of the information comes from Greene. Agro Companyгрин-агро)