According to Tomás Pérez Suárez, a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, the Maya were the first to domesticate and possibly the ones responsible for expanding cacao in the Mesoamerican region.
The cacao plant usually grows in humid tropical zones, it does not grow in highlands, which is why it was so prized by the Mayas, explains the expert.
This product was used in those times as a currency of exchange, therefore, a person could buy something if he paid with cocoa.
For the same reason, cacao was also considered by the Mayas to be the food of the great gods of that culture, as well as part of their economy.
With information from UNAM Global
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