Question

Read this passage from an essay called “When Chocolate was Medicine.” What valid conclusion could you make based on the passage?

Answer 1

The answer is: Coffee, chocolate, and tea were not native to Europe.

In the passage from the essay called "When Chocolate was Medicine," the narrator describes how Europeans tasted tea, coffee and chocolate for the first time. Because these beverages were brought from overseas, they were an unknown pleasurable taste, so people were cautious and alert about their effects. As a consequence, at first they were just prescribed by pharmacists, as if they were drugs.