Example Of A Culture History Of Chocolate Article Review

Cacao and chocolate are the products with rich history that started more than three thousand years ago. First human use of cacao took place in South America where the early Olmecs enjoyed the first cacao products. Mayan texts suggested that cacao was a gift of Xmucane, a God of creation.
When Spaniards came to Mexico, they found chocolate as a very interesting product that could be used both as a food and as a medicine. Later, chocolate was popularized in Europe, and it was firstly considered as an exotic product, but it was gradually used for both medical and culinary purposes in Spain, England, France and other countries. With globalization, chocolate became a popular product all over the world, and today it is consumed by billions of people from all continents.
It is rather interesting that today there are many chocolate products, and many of them do not even contain cacao solids. For example, white chocolate cannot be considered as chocolate-related product at all. Such products become popular as it takes billions of cacao beans to produce enough chocolate to meet the needs of all people who consume chocolate. Only Americans eat about 100 pounds of chocolate every second, and taking into account a growing world population, more and more cacao plantations will be needed to produce enough chocolate.
The main question is why chocolate is so popular today. There is no short answer as there are many reasons why people eat chocolates. One of them is that eating dark chocolate reduces the risk of getting a heart disease. More than that, it is tasty and can be used to create culinary masterpieces.
And the final question is: Chocolate is a gift of Gods, isn’t it?