Tag Archives: chocolate in India

Chocolate over Sweets

With the trend of distributing sweets on festive season many sweets shop owners were using malpractices for doubling their profits near deepawali and other festive seasons. The news covered by IBN7 Here This was the reason Kreative Chocolate stood up and took initiative to give the people of Chandigarh the gift of Chocolates on Diwali. […]

Chocolates and Chemistry

Today the scientists have been able to identify more than 300 of the chemicals found in chocolate. The most famous ones are theobromine, caffeine, serotonin, histamine, anandamide phenethylamine, spermidine and an antioxidant know as epicatechin. Exactly how all these chemicals affect our body and how they work together is still largely unknown. Some people seem […]

History of Chocolate in India

Origin of Cocoa Cocoa, botanically known as being a tropical crop is native to Amazon basin and spread to other countries within 15 degrees on either side of the equator including Mexico, Central America, Caribbean Islands, South America, West Africa and South East Asia where the conditions for growing were ideal. West Africa dominates the […]

History of Chocolate

Loved since prehistoric times The origin of chocolate The origins of chocolate can be traced back to the ancient Maya and Aztec civilisations in Central America, who first enjoyed ‘chocolatl’; a much-prized spicy drink made from roasted cocoa beans. Throughout its history, whether as cocoa or drinking chocolate beverage or confectionery treat, chocolate has been […]