Christopher Columbus brought a few cocoa beans back to show Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, but it was the Spanish friars who first introduced chocolate to Europe more broadly. It wasn't until the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs that chocolate could be imported to Europe, where it quickly became a court favorite. The first recorded shipment of chocolate to Europe for commercial purposes was in a shipment from Veracruz, Mexico to Sevilla in 1585.
The conquistador Hernan Cortés was the first European to know that the cocoa beans were valuable but someone had brought them back before him. Christopher Columbus stole some from a Mayan trader and brought them over between 1502-1504. He knew they were worth something, but didn't understand what they were or what to do with them.
The native Americans were first to discover the cocoa bean.
Montezuma, leader of the Aztecs, when he offered a drink made from them to Cortez and the conquistadors.
they grow on trees they were discovered by the mayans.
Christopher Columbus was believed to have robbed a Mayan trader and upon inspecting his booty, learning about cocoa beans at that time. He brought cocoa beans along with other treasures back to Europe. He thought they were some kind of nut and no one really paid much attention to them at the time.
No, cocoa is cacao beans
No, cocoa is cacao beans
after the cocoa beans are roasted
Cocoa beans come from different countries but there is only one country whose main source is cocoa. Ghana!Colombiacocoa bean trees grow at the equater in south America and africain the amazon rainforest.it grows best in Ghanain hot countries on trees
Cocoa beans are only produced by the cocoa tree.
Cacoa beans, also called cocoa beans, are the dried and fermented fatty beans from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter are extracted.
You can't simply make cocoa beans. They are plants that from from a cocoa bean tree. You can however make different things from cocoa beans such as chocolate.
you cant because it not chocolate without cocoa beans
cocoa beans heal mostly the small cuts
The cocoa beans were used at the Aztecs' currency.
what 2 countries are cocoa beans exported to