Chocolate—it makes miracle pills go down easier. Miracle Max probably wasn't thinking of the Aztecs when he used a chocolate-coated pill to revive Westley in The Princess Bride. But chocolate has been used in medicine since at least the 1500s, and probably much earlier, as part of Olmec, Maya and Aztec treatments for a range of ailments.
“Throughout history, chocolate is considered to be extremely healthful,” says Louis Grivetti, a nutrition historian at the University of California, Davis.
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