Additionally, nine out of the top ten chocolate consuming nations ... The use of this plant for food, for the earliest form of chocolate, makes it one of the oldest food products in the world ...

DNA evidence of cacao found in the Amazon basin that dates to about 3000 BCE. The oldest chocolate company in the United States is in Massachusetts – the Baker Chocolate founded in 1780.

Elmer is the oldest family-owned chocolate company in the U.S. It was founded in New Orleans in 1855 as the Miller Candy Co., named for owner Christopher Henry Miller. When Augustus Elmer married ...