Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans. It can be a liquid, solid, or paste. It is eaten on its own and used to flavor other foods.
Chocolate bars in dark, white, and milk variants (top to bottom).
Mexica. Man Carrying a Cacao Pod, 1440–1521
One of the first mass-produced chocolate bars, Fry's Chocolate Cream, was produced by Fry's in 1866.
Barks made of different varieties of chocolate
Chocolate milk is a type of flavoured milk made by mixing cocoa powder with milk. It is a food pairing in which the milk's mouthfeel masks the dietary fibres of the cocoa solids of cocoa powder.
A mug of chocolate milk next to a chocolate bar
A glass of pasteurized chocolate milk made from water buffalo's milk produced by the Philippine Carabao Center