Study Points to Ecuador and Peru as the Origin of Cocoa Domestication

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Issue Mar 27-Apr 02 2024: History indicates that in the 16th century when the Spaniard Hernán Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlán, the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma welcomed him with an aphrodisiac concoction made with cacao. Quirino Olivera Nuñez, a Peruvian archaeologist based in Jaén, states that according to legend, “Cortés wanted to spit it out, but he was in front of the king and had to swallow it.”

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