which is what Aztecs called the beans chocolate is made from. It’s thought that English traders misspelled cacao when they brought the beans home, and so cocoa stuck. 1 bean = 1 ripe avocado 4 ...

In fact, the Aztecs valued the beans so much that they used them as currency: a hundred beans bought a turkey or a slave, and taxes were paid in cocoa beans to Aztec emperors. They prized Xocolatl ...