Ancient South Americans tasted chocolate 5,400 years ago
New research strengthens the case that people used the chocolate ingredient cacao in South America 5,400 years ago, underscoring the seed’s radical transformation into today’s Twix bars and M&M candies. Tests indicate traces of cacao on artifacts from an archeological site in Ecuador, according to a study published Monday. That’s about 1,500 years older than […]
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