Traces of oldest chocolate in the world was found in an ancient pottery vessel in southeastern Mexico in a place known as Paso de la Amada. Paso de la Amada , an early village, in the region of Soconusco. It was one of the richest cocoa producing regions in pre-Spanish America.
This discovery pushes the earliest use of cocoa to between 1500 and 1900BC. It mas made by analysing the pottery from the site.This site has already shown evidence of a complex society.
In a report in Mexicon,the insides of 16 vessels found at Paso de la Amada were scraped. Jeffrey Hurst at the Hershey Foods Technical Centre analysed them for cocoa. Theobromine was found in two vessels.
The results provide proof that the Mokaya people of Soconusco were involved in the production and consumption of liquid chocolate.
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