Cacao was first discovered over 5,000 years ago — not as chocolate, but as a fruit. The Mayo-Chinchipe people of Ecuador were drinking its juice millennia before anyone processed the bean. Guarded by jaguars, pollinated by hummingbirds, and revered by the Maya and Aztec as a gift from the gods, cacao's greatest secret was never the bean. It was always the fruit inside the pod. This is the story of cacao water — waiting for the world to be discovered.
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