How The Cacao Tree Got Its Name

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More history is written on the
cacao tree than any other American
plant making the journey to the
Old World. The seed of the cacao
tree was extremely valuable as a
food, trade item and as a
religious symbol causing the
extensive writing that we have to
show the history of chocolate.
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Thousand of years before the
Spanish Conquest of Mexico and
Central America, extensive
documentation was made of the
cacao tree including its spiritual
use as a form of human blood; of
course it was under the name given
to it by the peoples indigenous to
those countries.
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The name (Theobroma cacao) was
actually given to the plant in
1753 by Carl von Linne, who was a
Swedish scientist. The binomial
system we now use to classify all
living things was created by this
scientist, his system replaced the
more complicated Latin sentences
used to describe things. He gave
the cacao or “chocolate tree” the
first part of its name “Theobroma”
because it actually means “food of
the gods.” Von Linne was known to
be a lover of chocolate, but he
felt the word cacao was archaic so
he put it at the end as the actual
name of the tree. Because
binomial names are rarely used in
everyday language, the tree and
all of its products before
processing became known as “cacao”.
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In 1828 the Dutchman Coenraad Van
Houten gave the newest product,
the defatted powder he invented
the name “Cocoa.” This is the
name the New York Commodities
Market uses to indicate the
unprocessed seeds, which only adds
to the confusion of the Cacao
trees name. After processing, the
seeds, whether in a solid or
liquid form, are called
“chocolate” or “cocoa” in British
English. To add even more
confusion, we need to make sure we
do not confuse the products which
come from the coconut palm and are
often referred to as “coco”.
Thank you,
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