The history of chocolate

This is the type of trees that chocolate comes from.

• Orange

• Cacao

• Chocolate

• Coco

What color are the flowers on the cacao tree?

• yellow and brown

• yellow and green

• green and brown

• brown and orange

What is inside the cacao pods?

• chocolate

• nothing

• flowers

• sweet, sticky white pulp

The trees only grow in very tropical warm weather.

• True

• False

Why did Aztec women pour the chocolate from high up?

• so it would cool down faster

• to make a foamy layer

• so that the chocolate would mix better

• because it was fun

The Maya believed that the cacao was given to them by Neptune.

• true

• false

The Aztecs, Maya and other cultures used chocolate for religious ceremonies, and only male rulers, warriors, and priests could drink it.

• True

• False

Christopher Columbus was the first European to see cacao beans.

• Ture

• False

In the 1800s, which group mixed chocolate with milk to make milk chocolate.

• Europeans

• Americans

• The Swiss

• Africans

Each pod contains how many cacao beans?

• 5-10

• 10-15

• 100

• 25-50