The message is go to sleep, feel bad, but go back for more. Chocolate Chocolate is an interesting psychoactive food. Chocolate and romance have been inseparable. Chocolate artistry is one of the truly admirable pursuits in food preparation. If nature had been more kindly disposed to us, chocolate confections would be an authentic pleasure, free of any penalty.
Chocolate begins as the cacao bean of South American origin.
One of the medically useful methylxanthine drugs, theobromine, is found in chocolate as well as coffee and tea. Theobromine is related to caffeine and is useful as a treatment of asthma. The cacao tree produces melon-sized pods full of beans. The pod is split and the beans removed and fermented until they turn the characteristic deep brown color. Dried beans are then roasted and processed by grinding and heating.