Chocoloate - from spending to eating

It is considered a must during Christmas and Valentine's day. A symbolic beverage in some cultures. Children loved them...
Cocoa beans were used by the Mayans and the Actecs as currency. It was a luxury to have chocolate as beverage in the early days. As expensive as it was previously and now, chocolate was said to possess medicinal values. Modern science had found alkaloids, naturally occured phytochemical which have physiological effect on those who ate it. Its functions include lowering of blood pressure when eaten moderately and recently it was claimed to contain antioxidants which are useful to prevent and combat certain cancers.

Regardless of claims of its goodness for human health, chocolate is a very important flavour in current human life.