Montezuma

chocolate

Xocoati led to the discovery of chocolate. Xocoati was pure cacao, and had no sugar in it. When the Spaniards tried it, they thought the drink was too biter. So they added sugar to it.

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xocoatl

The Aztecs called chocolate xocolatl (shoh-koh-lah-till). However, what they referred to as chocolate was a warm beverage (similar to hot chocolate) without milk or sugar.

The Aztecs also referred to the seed pod and the unprocessed seeds as cacao (kah-cow).