History
Ancient people who may have been the first to consume Cocoa seeds
Who are the Olmec?
This invention separated the crushed seeds into a fatty part and a purer chocolate part.
What is the hydraulic press?
This tiny fly pollinates the cacao trees.
What is the midge fly?
Theobroma, the botanical name for cocao, mean this in Latin.
What is "food of the gods?"
This movement tries to make sure farmers get enough money for their product.
What is the "Fair-Trade Movement?"
These ancient people held chocolate in high esteem and could be called the world's first chocolatiers.
Who are the Maya?
This powder created by Henri Nestle make "milk chocolate" possible.
What is powdered milk?
This process is what gives chocolate its distinct flavor.
What is fermentation?
This scientist studied peas to understand how parents pass traits to offspring.
Who is Mendel?
This trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa killed people brutally.
What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?
These people sometimes mixed their chocolate drink with blood to serve to people they sacrificed to their gods.
Who were the Aztecs?
This machine rocked and rolled the liquid chocolate back and forth until completely smooth.
What is the conching machine?
Taxonomy is the way of categorizing living things created by this man.
Who is Carl Linneas?
Name a disease deadly to the theobroma plant.
What is Witches Broom, Frosty Pod Rot?
This labor practice today is a problem on cocao plantations especially in Africa.
What is forced child labor?
These were the first Europeans to import chocolate.
Who are the Spanish?
This process makes the chocolate form certain types of crystals so that it stays shiny and doesn't melt right away when you touch it.
What is tempering?
These control what traits are passed on from parent to offspring.
What are genes?
The cocao plant needs these climatic factors to thrive.
What are heat and shade?
These "houses" were used to discuss politics during the Enlightenment.
What were "Chocolate Houses"?
Chocolate bars were given to soldiers as a quick energy boost for the first time in this war.
What is WWI?
This man first mass-produced chocolate in the US and is sometimes known as "the Henry Ford of Chocolate."
Who was Milton Hershey?
Scientists do this by cutting apart genes and substituting different ones into a genome.
What is genetically modifying?
This man was called the Holy Roman Emperor.
Who was Charles V?
These foods are controversial because we do not know what all of the long term effects of them are.
What are GMOs?