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Chocolate
Chocolate is a food product derived from cocoa beans that is consumed as candy, used to flavour or coat various confections and baked goods, and added to beverages. It is a fantastic source of instant energy since it is high in carbs and because it also includes trace levels of the stimulating alkaloids caffeine and theobromine. The Chocolate tree has been domesticated for more than 3,000 years by the Maya, Toltec, and Aztec peoples. They made a drink from its fruit, the cocoa bean, and also utilised the bean as money. The cacao tree was revered by the Maya, who thought of chocolate as the sustenance of the gods and even buried officials with bowls of the stuff.