Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
CACAO
cacao, cacao tree, chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao
(noun) tropical American tree producing cacao beans
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)
A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*ca"o, n. Etym: [Sp., fr. Mex. kakahuatl. Cf. Cocoa, Chocolate] (Bot.)
Definition: A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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