Cacao seeds
Carl Linneaus named cacao Theobroma, ‘the food of the gods’. Known to the Aztecs, cacao was brought to Europe by the Spanish. It was served as chocolate, sweetened with sugar. In the 1600s chocolate houses were drinking dens before coffee houses became popular.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 27/2001/28
- Collection Class
- Plants
- Collection Area Region
- Central America / South America
- Collector Excavator
- Palmer, A E
- Common Name
- cacao seeds
- Simple Name
- seeds
