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Göksu SERTSEVER, Ebru DEMİR, and Güliz MACAR from our e-twinning team prepared an article about chocolate:
CHOCOLATE
How to Make Chocolate?
Chocolate is produced from cacao seeds. This plant is in the equator. Cocao fruits can be red, yellow, and purple.The
seeds are in these fruits. The number of seeds change 20-40. The taste of seeds is bitter.Matured fruits collect and wait
to dehydrate. Then these seeds are sent to a factory to make chocalate. Seeds are roasted and ground. Then ground
seeds become a dough like mud and add other materials. This mixing dumps molds.
History of Chocolate
Firstly chocolate was made by Maya civilization thousands years ago, probably by a group of Olmers. They grew cocoa
trees in South America. Mayas learn how to use these nuclei over time. In 600, Maya made a chocalate drink.
According to the legend, Moctezuma, the king of Aztecs, drank 50 cups of chocalte a day. Aztecs were drinking cold,
adding pepper and other spices. After 80 years, solid chocalate started to be sold as a drink in the UK. So solid
chocalate selling “ Chocalate Houses” spread all over the Europe. The traces of the oldest chocalate found to date are
found in a 2.600 years old jug.
Did you know that “Mayas and Aztects were using cocoa seeds for money.” ?
Interesting Information About Chocalate
When you eat chocalate, you excrete the happiness hormone.
There is yellow chocolate.
Bitter chocolate is good for tooth decay.
White chocalate doesn’t include cocoa. It includes cocoa oil.
Americans consume about 1.3 billion tonnes of chocolate a year.
Chocolate includes antioxidant.