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What is the Mayan word for chocolate?

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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).

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xocoatl which means bitter water. Chocolate was not served sweet until it was taken to Europe.

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Literally; bitter water

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