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It's Beer Brewers Who Created Chocolate 3,000 Years Ago!
The date has also surprised researchers, for it shows that people started consuming chocolate 500 years earlier than thought. The researchers believe that chocolate was discovered by accident by Central American Indians making beer when they used the pulp of cacao seedpods while making the drink.
The new findings about chocolate's origins came to light after traces of cacao were found on pottery fragments dating from about 1100 B.C. to 800 B.C. The pottery was discovered at archaeological excavations near Puerto Escondido in Honduras between 1995 and 2000.
Study author Rosemary Joyce, an anthropologist at University of California, Berkeley says that there would be a vast difference between the chocolate made today, and that made around 1100 B.C. when the ancient beer makers fermented cacaos seedpods and then used the pulp to make beer, discarding the seeds.
"It was beer with a high kick. But it would not have tasted anything like the chocolate we have today," National Geographic quoted her, as saying.
About 300 years later, however, a more familiar form came into being when the Indians started using the discarded fermented seeds to make a non-alcoholic beverage, served to celebrate special occasions such as marriages and births.
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