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Chocolate's Prehistoric - It's Official

Submitted by PaulM on Thursday, 18 July 2002  Page Views: 1094

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According to a chemical analysis of a cooking pot used by the ancient Mayans in about 600BC, our taste for chocolate began 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Scientists discovered the pot on an archaeological site in northern Belize in Central America, and found that a rock hard residue in the bottom of it contained traces of beans from the cacao plant, which can be roasted, ground into cocoa powder and made into chocolate.

Jeffrey Hurst, a chemical analyst at the Hershey chocolate company in Pennsylvannia who led the research team, said that the findings amounted to the earliest evidence of chocolate being drunk.

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