A new study from an international team of researchers is pushing back the origins of chocolate. The study 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

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A new study from an international team of researchers is pushing back the origins of chocolate. The study 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