Chocolate as Medicine: A Quest over the Centuries

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The Mesoamerican population who lived near the indigenous cultivation web sites of the \"Chocolate Tree\" (Theobromo cacao) had a multitude of documented applications of chocolate as medicine, ranging from alleviating fatigue to stopping heart ailments to treating snakebite. Right up until recently, these applications have acquired tiny sound scientific scrutiny. Rather, it has been the reputed well being claims stemming from Europe and the United States which have attracted significant biomedical consideration. This book, for the first time, describes the centuries-lengthy quest to uncover chocolate\'s potential well being benefits. The authors discover variations in the kinds of proof employed to assistance chocolate\'s use as medication as properly as note the ongoing tension over categorizing chocolate as foods or medicine, and a lot more recently, as practical food or nutraceutical. The authors, Wilson an historian of science and medication, and Hurst an analytical chemist in the chocolate business, bring their collective insights to bear on the improvement of concepts and practices surrounding the use of chocolate as medicine. Chocolate\'s use in this method is explored first amongst the Mesoamerican peoples, then as it is transported to Europe, and back into Colonial North America. The authors then concentrate on a lot more current bioscience experimental undertakings which have been aimed to ascertain both lengthy-standing and novel ideas as to chocolate\'s efficacy as a medicinal and a nutritional substance. Chocolate/s popularity as the most craved meals boosts this book\'s appeal to foods and biomedical scientists, cacao researchers, ethnobotanists, historians, folklorists, and healers of all types as well as to the basic studying audience.

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