Most of us are born chocoholic and we just can’t get enough of this dark and delicious chocolate. We love to lick the last taste of it when it melts in our fingers.

Each and every one of us are entranced by this amazing gourmet but have we ever wondered how it was discovered and how it became one of the most popular sweets of all time?  It is already known that it came from a cocoa tree but do you really know how they made this to a cocoa powder? They said it came from the beans of its almond shaped fruit. And this type of tree only grows in tropical countries that encounter a lot of rain. It will undergo a lot of process like the harvesting and fermentation before they can produce a natural cocoa powder. 

Have you made a cocoa beverage with marshmallows on top? Did you ever get curious and stuck your tongue to get a taste of the powder and regretted it after thinking it is as sweet as the chocolate bar? It is funny how we made face when we first savored its tang of bitterness. That is how it is like before they put in a mixture of milk or sugar to make it more like the usual chocolate that we crave.  

The powder is not only used to make a plain chocolate but is also now used as one of the ingredients of other desserts. We are in debt to the people who invented this and if not for them, there would be no chocoholics.