Sweet discovery: New UBC study pushes back the origins of chocolate

As Halloween revelers prepare to feast on chocolate, a new study from an international team of researchers, including the University of British Columbia, is pushing back the origins of the delicious sweet treat. The study, published online today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggests that cacao—the plant from which chocolate is made—was domesticated, or grown by people for food, around 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. In addition, the researchers found cacao was originally domesticated in South America, rather than in Central America.
Read more: https://news.ubc.ca/2018/10/29/sweet-discovery-new-ubc-study-pushes-back-the-origins-of-chocolate/?source=Snapzu