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
Milk chocolate is a form of solid chocolate containing cocoa, sugar and milk. It is the most consumed type of chocolate, and is used in a wide diversity of bars and other confectionery products. Altho
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…chocolate. By adding sugar, sweetened chocolates are produced, which can be sold simply as dark chocolate, or, with the addition of milk, can be made into milk chocolate. Making chocolate with only cocoa butter and milk produces white chocolate. Chocolate is one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world…
A Milka chocolate bar, 30% cocoa
Daniel Peter, Swiss chocolatier who combined chocolate and milk
1905 ad for Gala Peter stating "The world's first milk chocolate"
Since its beginning, milk chocolate has been associated with Alpine scenery.