Where does chocolate come from?
Jungle to Wrapper
Where does chocolate come from?
You unwrap a chocolate bar, and it melts on your tongue — smooth, sweet, a little bitter. But chocolate didn't start in a wrapper. It started in a jungle, growing on a tree most people have never heard of.
The tree is called Theobroma cacao — "food of the gods" in Greek — and it grows near the equator where it's hot and wet all year. The cacao tree is picky: it wants shade from taller trees, constant humidity, and soil rich with rotting leaves. It won't grow just anywhere.
