Xocoatl

Xocoatl was Chocolatl or a drink made from cocoa beans which the Aztecs drunk. This drink was often flavored with vanilla, Chile pepper and allspice.

When Chris Campagna in the early 16th century explored the coast of Central America, he discovered that the natives as a medium of Exchange used the seeds of the cacao tree . Years later, the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés by an Aztec Prince a foaming, slightly intoxicating drink offered in which the same seeds were contained. The drink was consumed, among other things, at the Court of Emperor Moctezuma II. This drink was called in the Nahuatl xocoatl . The Spanish settlers and emissaries who had settled in America, made of chocolate . It was later In the Dutch chocolate.

A Spanish Jesuit missionary, Jose de Acosta, who lived in Peru and Mexico at the end of the 16th century, wrote all about being xocoatl fatigue against went. This was caused by the caffeine that is present in cocoa beans.

In the mid-17th century, chocolate made its appearance in Western Europe, initially as a drink, later also in solid form.