Chocolate, the most popular type and flavor of foods | agriculture commodities - commodity prices - food sciences | Chocolate is a raw food or products made from the seed of the tropical tree Theobroma cacao. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its first documented use around 1100 BC. Most Meso-american people used chocolate as a drinks , including the Aztecs, who made a drink called Xocolatl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop flavor.
