Context:
It is claimed that the inventor of chocolate milk is Hans Sloane, an Anglo-Irish physician and botanist, with the prominent attributor being the Natural History Museum in Britain, but later this claim was challenged by historian James Delbourgo, that the Jamaicans first invented the drink, as far back as 1494, with ingredients that include fresh cocoa shavings, cinammon and milk.
So how the discussion on the chocolate milk origins started with Hans Sloane?
During Hans Sloane’s mission in the British colony of Jamaica, he encountered some natives who served him a beverage of cocoa and water. Unappealing to his taste, he added milk and it improved. After returning to England in 1680s, he sold his recipe to a local apothecary or pharmacy, where it was first introduced as a medicine, and then became popular to the people there.
Even though he did not invent the drink, he is still attributed for introducing it to Europe.
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Context:
It is claimed that the inventor of chocolate milk is Hans Sloane, an Anglo-Irish physician and botanist, with the prominent attributor being the Natural History Museum in Britain, but later this claim was challenged by historian James Delbourgo, that the Jamaicans first invented the drink, as far back as 1494, with ingredients that include fresh cocoa shavings, cinammon and milk.
So how the discussion on the chocolate milk origins started with Hans Sloane?
During Hans Sloane’s mission in the British colony of Jamaica, he encountered some natives who served him a beverage of cocoa and water. Unappealing to his taste, he added milk and it improved. After returning to England in 1680s, he sold his recipe to a local apothecary or pharmacy, where it was first introduced as a medicine, and then became popular to the people there.
Even though he did not invent the drink, he is still attributed for introducing it to Europe.
References:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chocolate-milk-was-invented-jamaica-180949734/?no-ist
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