Chocolate  is a  food  made from roasted and ground  cacao seed  kernels that is available as a liquid, solid,        or paste, either on its own or as a  flavoring agent  in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form        since at least the  Olmec  civilization (19th–11th century) and the majority of  Mesoamerican  people,                    the  Maya  and  Aztecs , made chocolate beverages.