Chocolate
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Chocolate is a sweet. It is used in lots of foods like pudding, cakes, and ice cream. It can be in a solid form or in a liquid form. The liquid form would be in a drink like a hot chocolate or iced chocolate.
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[edit] Types of Chocolate
There are three main kinds of chocolate: white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. White chocolate tastes a lot sweeter than the other two types, because it has more of the sweeter ingredients in it. White chocolate has little cocoa in it. It is made of cocoa butter. Milk chocolate is what people buy the most. It is sweet, but not as sweet as white chocolate. Milk chocolate has some cacao. Dark chocolate is the strongest. Varieties exits that have up to 80-85 percent cocoa in them.
[edit] Is chocolate safe to eat?
Chocolate is safe to eat, if it is not eaten in big amounts. Many people eat it often. Some animals and some people cannot eat chocolate because they get sick. It is also bad for people because it can cause teeth to become rotten.
[edit] Ingredients
There is no caffeine in chocolate unless it has been added. Often people mistake Theobromine for caffeine,although they are closly related, they are two different chemicals.
[edit] History of Chocolate
Chocolate is made from the cacao plant.
The cacao tree was first found to be useful for its seeds about two thousand years ago. Early Americans used the seeds from the cacao tree to make a drink that did not taste sweet. Only the important people could drink it. The common, average people could not. Later on, this drink was made sweeter and made into the treat that is known today as hot chocolate. It was made popular by Spanish explorers who brought it back from America to Spain. When chocolate was sweetened and made into candy, it became a very popular treat for many Europeans. At first, only the rich could afford chocolate, but later, after being mass-produced in the 1800s, more people could buy it.
