The Azrecs of Mexico knew about chocolate a long thime ago. The made it into a drink. Sometimes they put hot chili peppers with the chocolate. They called the drink xocoatl, which means "bitter juice." This is where the word chocolae word chocolate comes from.
The spanish went to Moxico and took the drink from the land of the Aztecs back to spain. The Spanish didn't like peppers, do they added sugar. They also liked to drink chocolate hot, and hot chocolate was born. This drink became very popular in Europe. People added different things like eggs to the chocolate drink. But everybody's favorite was chocolate in milk insttead of water.
There wa still no hard chocolate until around 1850. Then the British made the first chocolate bar. Twenty-five years later, teo men in Switzerland mixed milk with the hard chocolate. Milk chocolate soon became a favorite all over the world.
Is chocolate good for you? For hundreds of years, people thought that chocolate was good for health. Doctors told people to have a chocolate drink for headaches and many othey proplems. Today, there is good news for chocolate lovers. Scientists think that a litter bit of chocolate is good for you! It gives you energy and has vitamins to keep your body healthy.
The Aztecs believed thit chocolate made you intelligent. To day, we do not belived this. But chocolate has a special chemical called phenylethylamine. This is the same chemical the body makes when a person is in love. Which do you prefer-eating chocolate or being in love.