On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Follow chocolate cake pop starbucks link for more information. This article is about the food. Chocolate is a food made from cacao beans.

It is used in many desserts like pudding, cakes, candy, ice cream, and Easter eggs. Dark chocolate has less sugar, and a more bitter taste. It was originally used to make drinking chocolate. Chocolate has been around the world since the time of the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztecs.

The cacao tree was first found to be useful for its seeds about two thousand years ago. Early Central Americans and Mexicans used the seeds from the cacao tree to make a drink that tasted bitter, not sweet. Only important people could drink it. One vessel found at an Olmec archaeological site on the Gulf Coast of Veracruz, Mexico, dates chocolate by pre-Olmec peoples as early as 1750 BC. Later on, this drink was made sweeter and made into what is known today as hot chocolate. It was made popular by Spanish explorers who brought it from North America to Spain. Until the 16th century, the cacao tree was unknown to the Europeans.

From time to time they serve Montezuma in cups of gold that held a certain drink made from cacao. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, chocolate was imported to Europe. There are three main types of chocolate: white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. White chocolate tastes much sweeter than the other two types, because it has more of the sweeter ingredients in it. Milk chocolate is sweet, but not as sweet as white chocolate. Milk chocolate has lots of cocoa. Dark chocolate is the least sweet and has the strongest chocolate flavor.

Ruby chocolate is a type of chocolate created by Barry Callebaut. The variety was in development from 2004, and was released to the public in 2017. The chocolate type is made from the Ruby cocoa bean, resulting in a distinct red colour and a different flavour, described as “sweet yet sour”. Raw chocolate is chocolate that has not been processed, heated, or mixed with other ingredients.