Chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground
cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either
on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed
in some form since at least the Olmec civilization (19th–11th century
BCE), and the majority of Mesoamerican people, including the Maya and
Aztecs, made chocolate beverages
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