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 later Mesoamerican civilizations also consumed chocolate beverages
before being introduced to Europe in the 16th century...
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