The acids are neutralized with alkalai. The English devised adding milk to cocoa as a beverage. The Swiss started adding milk to the cocoa to make milk chocolate. Cocoa butter is re-added to make the product more creamy. Tea Tea is drunk by a larger number of people than coffee, but does not have as high dollar value.
Most tea is consumed locally and comparatively small quantities enter international trade.
593 B.C. The Mongols got tea from the Chinese and traded it across Asia. The Russians got tea in this way. Europeans first got into tea when the Portugese brought it back from China. In the 1700's tea had become an important item of trade. Both the British and Dutch bought tea in the Orient and sold it in Europe.