Hans Sloane
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Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector. He had a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of th
Portrait by Stephen Slaughter
Title page, Sloane's Voyage to Jamaica, 1725
Illustration from critique of the first volume of A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, published in Acta Eruditorum, 1710
Sloane, 1736
Chocolate milk
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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.
Hans Sloane
…renowned medical doctor among the aristocracy, and was elected to the Royal College of Physicians at age 27. Though he is credited with the invention of chocolate milk, it is more likely that he learned the practice of adding milk to drinking chocolate while living and working in Jamaica. Streets and places were later…
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
Chocolate milk recipe in the 1850s