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Chocolate as we know it today has been 1500 years in the making.

Using the grains of the cocoa pod is supposed to have originated with the Maya southern Mexico and Central America there are fifteen hundred years. Like in the pulp, combined with mixtures of cornmeal as an ingredient of flavor. With the cocoa trade Grain has become popular with the Aztecs, who believed they had medicinal properties.

The Aztecs used the beans as a form of currency exchange and pay tribute. The beaten pulp used as the main ingredient in the drink also contained Aztec spices. In its raw form of cocoa mass is very bitter and slightly acidic. The drink cocoa is said to have the power to increase resilience of Mana. It is recorded that the ruler Montezuma drank fifty cups of regular cocoa drink per day from a large gold cup.

When meeting with Cortes and his conquistadors in 1519, the Aztecs gave gifts of baskets of cocoa pods. Spanish classes have been confused by hitherto unknown plant. Over time, the Spanish began to drink the cocoa drink wine in their stores grew weak. In the accounts, cortex of men found refreshing drink, but too bitter. They have begun to sweeten the drink with a syrup of sugar obtained from local sources. They are therefore recorded the first step towards developing of the cocoa bean into chocolate we know today. The Aztecs called their drink xocoatl. Les The Spanish found the Aztec word difficult to pronounce and renamed "chocolat.Â"

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