White, black and with milk. Así it is as we have traditionally known one of the food más tempting. Addictive even for a few. The chocolate started’, being a drink that the mayans and aztecs reconoc’an as a gift from their gods, currency exchange and deli reserved to their élites.
Crist’bal Col’n was the first european to try it, but it was Hernán Cortés who brought’ to the old continent, the fruit of the cocoa, then, be prepared like a strong drink. The aztecs tostaban and molían the seeds, mixed them with water and spices (chilli, cinnamon, pepper or vanilla) and engull’an that líliquid bitter.
In Europe's monks were some of the first masters chocolatiers and, with the to&years and its progressive introduction’re in the different países, those bitter drink evolution’ into what today we recognize as chocolate: tablets más or less sweets that melt in the mouth.
chocolate, &are you;good or bad for health?
As with all foods, in their as the chocolate is a very interesting product. Their flavonoids give chocolate and cocoa antioxidant properties and facilitate the flow of the blood. And the presence of polyphenols alsoén has effects healthy for your heart.