The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli

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If you can’t imagine life without chocolate, you’re lucky you weren’t born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate only existed as a bitter, foamy drink in Mesoamerica. So how did we get from a bitter beverage to the chocolate bars of today? Deanna Pucciarelli traces the fascinating and often cruel history of chocolate.
Lesson by Deanna Pucciarelli, animation by TED-Ed.

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[@knvsureshbabu]

TED-Ed I

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TED-Ed can you do the next video of the hostory of the wheels

[@thesponsor8582]

I mean history of wheels

[@manik0w4t1]

Hi nice video 🌰🍪🍫

[@AgressiveScreaming]

Shots fired at 3:23. And we all know who you are talking about: * Cough cough * Nestle! * cough cough *.

[@eyuin5716]

The mesoamericans also gave us corn and vanilla.

[@salvatornado]

Ęÿūį Æßñ and potatoes!!

[@Raziffalyan]

potatoes and pumpkins and maize and papayas too!

[@borisb1831]

They gave us maize not corn, corn was a product of later selective breeding and genetic modification

[@ChrisPPotatoIDC]

Potatoes came from Ireland tho

[@Pantograph_1]

A Cat please be joking

[@soulassassin0g]

People need to realize that it's not the chocolate that is sweet but rather the sugar that's in it. That's why when people buy unsweetened chocolate they're disgusted by how bitter it is.

[@ARedMagicMarker]

I know right? I love to bake, and I had 1 bar of completely unsweetened chocolate for a special recipe. My spouse got into and spat it right out, ranting about how dare I bring the "demon chocolate" into this house, XD

[@ValerioRhys]

@@ARedMagicMarker Pure, unsweetened chocolate is actually an acquired taste, like chewing tobacco or coffee beans.

[@retosius7962]

yeah and usually the higher the cocoa percentage the more bitter it is. I'm pretty sure unsweetened milk chocolate just tastes normal but not sweet. EDIT: I meant white Chocolate. my mistake XD

[@TheProfessor529]

Yeah, I can NOT stand the pure stuff. Anything above 70% cocoa makes me gag.

[@vylrent]

unsweetened chocolate is actually fine for me

[@auhsojacosta1672]

I can imagine in the afterlife that kid is telling everyone that he died because his mother drank all his medicine

[@aegeushieweechngstudent7851]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@cyberstarz5550]

I-

[@jayabhattacharya3423]

Chocolate *

[@ThawBerry]

Welp-

[@1i.s]

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[@Ivan-bb6eb]

Vanilla was already added in Chocolate (Vanilla is native to Mexico too). Also honey and other various things were added to Mesoamerican Chocolate. Like Achiote, various flowers etc. Spanish nuns in Mexico added milk and sugar. In Mexico there are tons of various forms to eat and drink chocolate (Champurado, Mole, etc.). Xocolatl

[@aribear889]

Native to AMERICA not just Mexico. Central America also harvested vanilla in pre Columbus times.

[@Fairykingbee]

@El Goblin Hi! I currently live in Miami and I am curious, have you tried growing cacao trees? I currently have 22 baby trees (about 7 months old) however I am scared they wont produce many pods because of the location!

[@shiroumxm2052]

@@Fairykingbee No, cacao is not native to central america , it´s antive to amazonia ecuatorial.. but domesticated in mesoamérica

[@Fruitking333]

@@shiroumxm2052 I actually learned this right after my post 😭 thank you so much for informing me! I learned that it is native to the Amazon and was carried north into Central America were they invented the chocolate drink. Pretty cool history!

[@estrxxla2295]

@@aribear889 wrong

[@thomasslone1964]

i didn't know a hershey's bar tasted like mass child labor

[@ToonKid4]

child labor is very sweet, very sweet indeed

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[@afnanazamfaez9169]

@@user-nq6ln1wv8b yes

[@AlohaUlises]

Indeed

[@FertChervu]

Welcome to reality, good man. 👍🏼

[@imperiumdivinity]

1:45 Mom: I should feed my sick kid. *honey or anything sweet gets added* Mom: nah let him die

[@carriallers1268]

Ahaha! Oh my god! I can't stop laughing!

[@imperiumdivinity]

Carri Allers ah thank you

[@bigbrain791]

the spooky bois lol

[@gino14]

Top 10 Anime betrayals

[@angellymeh]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@manticlove]

As a Ghanaian boy growing up in the cocoa farm, the harvesting times are memories I'll carry for life. And not to down play the struggles of others I never considered helping my parents as a child labor. Because fortunately every patent I knew back then considered school as their children's future. As someone who experienced that life, I think the western considers every support African children give their parents as a form of child labor. Though I stand to be corrected.

[@MaverickLee11]

wow so lucky, I just uploaded a brand new video discussing Cocoa, my video is titled: Cocoa: Food of the God's | Superfood

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Baby Diapers USD SGD

[@andrewtatetopg9425]

The Mayans were right. Chocolate is the food from heaven.

[@booklover_222]

Definitely.😌

[@boom8474]

Heavenly child labor.

[@georgejoestarii9469]

@@boom8474 😳😐

[@idk-zi3gw]

@@boom8474 don't call it that we call it mandatory volunteers

[@DiabolicEsper00]

Aztec*

[@giitanjalichiya2116]

"Hernan Cortes visited Montezuma." Well, visited is one word for it.

[@lthemills3871]

Giitanjali Chiya LMFAO!!

[@neutralfellow9736]

"disgusting savage people" - Like the Aztecs were any better...

[@youngsavag666]

Neutral Fellow actually the Aztecs capital was richer than any Spanish city at the time

[@youngsavag666]

shiranui lol yea I bet if the Aztecs didn't OPRESSE other tribes they wouldn't have sided with the Europeans

[@neutralfellow9736]

"actually the Aztecs capital was richer than any Spanish city at the time" - No it wasn't, it was described as a large city and compared to Seville, meaning just another big city. Also, I was not speaking about wealth, I was speaking about the atrocities the Aztec Empire forced on its subject tribes, the same tribes that rose up and fought alongside the Spanish.

[@oddodyssey7231]

So if chocolate counted as currency... I guess you could say money... Grows on trees I'll let myself out

[@lordamvmurda406]

Money is paper

[@lordamvmurda406]

@@luongmaihunggia r/ihavereddit

[@emptytrashcan33]

@@lordamvmurda406 money is actually made out of cotton r/wooooosh

[@Ghostxlyvoid]

@@emptytrashcan33 but its mixed with paper :/

[@ethanbravin894]

I dont know what to name myself in CANADA it's completely PLASTIC. and in AMERICA it COTTON FIBRE. We call it paper because it's similar, if it was money would go bad after a couple months. I didn't highlight cuz I was angry btw, just wanted u to get main info fast

[@lamiahraza]

can we appreciate how elegant the animation is

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Yes

[@emedianetwork]

I live in colombia and when I was a kid my mom used to grind the cacao fruit directly from the cacao three and made natural chocalate

[@chriswebster24]

That’s nothing. My family is from the US and we buy chocolate from the store.

[@ragerteenager968]

yup I'm from southeast mexico and my great-grandmother does that process as well and sells the chocolate tablets to make hot chocolate

[@diaochan7506]

My family have cacao tree forest behind my house and I'm not from Mesoamerica but Asia. I'm curious is cocoa originally from my country or is same.

[@_aashi]

@@chriswebster24 pfft- Same but I am not from US

[@sheerajzakir]

@@chriswebster24 great to listen!

[@lochuu7353]

Imagine go fighting and killing , then return just to receive cocoa beans

[@sofussigvardt2962]

thanks imagine doing it for a currency that has existed for hundreds of years to help the soldiers and their families

[@dali3839]

By that time it was like if someone gave you pure gold😗

[@dali3839]

@thanks that is true...

[@lochuu7353]

@@dali3839 tasty gold 😂

[@soulassassin0g]

@@dali3839 they had pure gold lol

[@MicahRion]

Cortez "visited." That was pretty generous summary of colonization.

[@TheTokkie]

Conquest was nothing new

[@stalionv4587]

Before we were friends with the tribesmen (then the carnage began).

[@marcovazquez8739]

Cortés not Cortez!!

[@partialintegral]

Cortez enriched them culturally.

[@Dracopol]

@@partialintegral That's right. Those goofy guys with feathers on their heads lacked diversity. They were participating in a loathsome, murderous religion that stratified humans and said the outlying tribes must contribute slaves to be victims of human sacrifice. Cortés did away with the pagan horrors, kicked Satan out, and gave them the saving light of Jesus Christ.

[@eberardosalvador9445]

The horror of children slavery in chocolate production in Africa... Thank you for spreading the word. Certainly not all about chocolate is sweet. ...A thoroughly educational video indeed...Thank you for not hiding the TRUTH.

[@porkoamy2001]

We need robots!

[@20jumps]

chocolate is bitter, the sugar added to it makes it sweet

[@code066funkinbird3]

@@20jumps yeah make sense

[@galaxyguy4247]

This comment has only 43 likes?? Look at the joke comments they have thousands. We need this comment to be taken more seriously. I agree

[@Just_A_Guy_Here.]

Well sometimes things never change if in the right circumstances, but good news is that practice won't last forever.

[@sophiesmith9300]

"Man now I want chocolate..." "Oh I'm on a diet, I guess not" My diet: Only 1 bag of chocolate chips instead of 5

[@Ejaz100]

Still better for you

[@Ejaz100]

Why not have a banana or apple instead?

[@Sintoolkicks]

If someone barged into your house, killed everyone, and stole everything, saying that he "visited" is not how I would describe that event.

[@linhhoang1363]

You have to visit the house first, before you start doing anything else. So there is nothing wrong in the video. Hence that's not an important part in a video about food either. So, pass.

[@artoruvidal2793]

Well TBH Cortez won because he got the help of so many natives like the Txalakans and other tribes who hated the Aztecs and their leader Mokzuma so much . He freed those tribes from their tyrants . But they don't teach this in schools and people are still believing that Aztecs were good people . Of course Cortez wasn't a good guy either he just wanted to save his life first as he was fugitive by Spanish king and seizing a colony could've saved him and also to obtain money and fame .

[@mapache7317]

Dont forget some of those home invaders being people whos family you killed long ago for revenge...Cortez had the help of other native tribes.

[@e.g.g1950]

@@mapache7317 and diseases lol. I don't believe one bit that other natives helped Cortez. I think it's just written up like that in the victors history book, to make the European's look less gruesome.

[@rounakbhunia8840]

@@e.g.g1950 It's very true, Cortes was helped by several of the nearby tribes which were oppressed by the Aztec tribe. Of course the smaller tribes believed the Spaniards would go away afterwards and not colonize and oppress everyone in the whole damn continent. This is not a morality argument on good and bad, just the simple fact that oppressed people in their desperation often turn to outside forces they can't rely on. Take for example french nobility asking Prussia to invade France just so save their own skins from the French revolution.

[@aguyofrandomness3039]

1:52 son:mom im sick mom:ok honey heres medicine mom:sike its a dessert now its mine

[@CookieDoesDragons]

a guy of randomness really?

[@andrewtatetopg9425]

I don't think she wants to eat a dessert. Very dry.

[@anacruz2077]

my family is zapotecan (indigenous to oaxaca, mx) and we have preserved a drink made from cacao and maize for thousands of years, it’s called tejate, we believe it is a drink of the gods :)

[@lichtjekylland4750]

I would like to taste...

[@braumenheimer9607]

What is the recipe for tejate?

[@calebdarko]

In Chiapas we all drink it, at every meal it cannot be missing but we call it 'Pozol de Cacao' and we still call it the drink of the Gods

[@braumenheimer9607]

@@calebdarko About how many ounces of cacao do you have a day?

[@random_guy-vw3kw]

Nah I bet the soldiers had the minds of kids, jit getting chocolate after winning war Seriously? Chocolate? DUDE YOU SHOULD GIVE THEM A GODDAMN MANSION AND LUXURY STUFF NOT JUST CHOCOLATE

[@0nlyadelaide699]

TED-ED I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, THIS MADE 5 YEARS AGO, I STILL LOVE IT!

[@ferrio5012]

As Belgian pastry chef, we acknowledge that Mexico is in fact the mother land of chocolate. Yes it was in Europe that modern chocolate was born but without the use gave by ancient Mesoamericans stablished in what is now Mexico, modern chocolate would have taken longer to be created because non of the other mesoamerican tribes gave the same use to cacao beans as the Mexicans, also cacao beans were brought by the Spanish conquers from Mexico. If you ask any good chef from Germany, France, Netherlands or Belgium, they’ll told you that chocolate was born thanks to Mexico, so in the name of Europeans who love chocolate, Gracias Mexico. 🇲🇽 🍫

[@AnerAndru]

And it's interesting because for most people around the world, it's no more than a candy, but for us mexicans it's an ingredient of many a good ancient traditional dish 😉.

[@user-vu2yb1gy4l]

We thank you too for perfecting it! Abrazos desde México 💚🇲🇽

[@latinauniversal]

The vanilla bean as well is from Mexico. greetings to Belgium from Mx!

[@uttamdas5834]

Hi I like big comments like these :3

[@marianaparra5797]

De nada hermano XD

[@matheussantana3174]

I love this guy's voice

[@irun_mon]

the voice is by Addison Anderson

[@Raziffalyan]

so calming, eh?

[@sapphireproductions1559]

based god the voice is Deanna pucciarelli

[@liberamans4173]

Luis Galvan Nope, this was narrated by Addison Adderson. The lesson, however, was written by Deanna Pucciarelli.

[@hughm1383]

I hate his voice. It sounds condescending.

[@malup1117]

“Bitter Side of Sweet” is a great book about the child slavery to make chocolate

[@multiyapples]

Thank you for sharing Deanna and Ted-Ed.

[@cindyjimenez7337]

Mayans used it as currency too. I'm Salvadorian. When I was in the 7th grade, we went to a cacao tree that was near school to learn about it. Now I feel nostalgic.

[@cindyjimenez7337]

Camden Carter Just fields sounds pretty cool to me, it must be beautiful!

[@deadsoon]

Cindy Jimenez si, yo siendo de Venezuela una vez fuí a una antigua casa colonial que tenía a esclavos moliendo café y cacao en una especie de hoyo en el piso y allí nos enseñaron cómo se hace el chocolate :) eso y ver matas de cacao en la naturaleza, es algo que la verdad no se puede ver en muchas otras partes del mundo!

[@alondracarreno1376]

i feel you, I'm Mexican and Salvadoran and my family are descendants of Aztecs and Mayans . It's really cool to have this amazing history of chocolate in our lives

[@KeybladeMaster64]

Chocolate came from Mexico though

[@bananaflavoredpringles4709]

@@KeybladeMaster64 chocolate comes from the aztecs, who lived in Mesoamerica, near modern-day central Mexico. so yes, in a way, but not really since Mexico wasn't founded then

[@dazhibernian]

Cortez took more than some beans lol.

[@dazhibernian]

CouquistadorSoup alrighty then..

[@FrenchFryFishOil]

also with nuts.

[@jaded8578]

CouquistadorSoup username checks out

[@Dracopol]

Cortez also ended the loathsome religion of human sacrifice.

[@danishamcclendon]

He took people lives.

[@sr.bombardeado8903]

3:17 Nestle moment

[@godsavethequeen7299]

The video is really good, the animation is golden.

[@deimono8984]

You know there was a video about the cacao slaves in cote d'ivoire and it showed that the laborers, although they're the ones harvesting and doing all the hard laborer, have not tasted a single chocolate in their entire life. So this journalist who was doing the documentary made them taste one. It broke my heart.

[@ishikamadan3498]

Can you share the link

[@kittycat7101]

@@ishikamadan3498 yep

[@muhammadnizamuddin2084]

that explained the important of using our brain not hard labour..learn the knowledge

[@holisticmaya]

Well that escalated quickly 😯

[@tobiasiestadsjostrand2431]

holisticmaya cute!!

[@lenkagamine4417]

holisticmaya agreed

[@YouTubeExplore777]

holisticmaya i still eat it without guilt.

[@catraz.7521]

Lion of Jah that comment was 1 year old

[@catraz.7521]

Lion of Jah I see what you did there😂. But why did you comment. You took my line

[@lmgutie]

Thanks from Mexico! Great to watch a video on this Mesoamerican gem! Now, a few notes: "Quetzalcoatl" is pronounced like "ket-sal-co-atl". The king's name is pronunced like "mock-teh-soomah"

[@saint3047]

The earliest traces of cacao residue date from 1400 B.C. and was found on pottery excavated in Honduras, according to Smithsonian magazine

[@KeybladeMaster64]

Thanks Mexico

[@sil5152]

very good explanation about chocolate I didn’t know it came from so far I really liked this video

[@ricsicsalava3717]

2:58 Dont you hate it when you just want to enjoy a chocolate bar, but insted the whole earth is in it? Makes me so angry man, every time!

[@brentmartin3068]

Lol!

[@conglyvo1332]

I’d still eat it but only the parts that has the most chocol

[@Acroflame]

Yeah it’s very annoying

[@enigmachinery]

same! imo the oceans are the WORST part.. they literally just taste so salty blech

[@Jobe-13]

Ricsi Csalava 😂

[@wick9614]

Wtf I’ve been craving chocolate and cheese and I got recommended both videos on the history of them... *ThIs iSnT HELPINGGGG*

[@alapotato9367]

maybe u can buy and eat them... actually.. I Don’t Even Know Anymore

[@klowntownz3126]

Lol

[@devinwallace9362]

Go to the store then

[@browserii2048]

I have been eating cheese and choco am I being stalked

[@magicgameplay6786]

En los relatos antiguos se dice ... Que la gente de tenochtitlan recibe tres preciados regalos de los dioses los cuales fueron el maíz , el chile , y el chocolate, durante el periodo del quinto sol, de hecho en MEXICO aun se consume un alimento hecho con esos tres ingredientes llamado mole, y suele acompañarse con pollo o carne de puerco 😀

[@NefiLopezGarcia]

In the south of Mexico in Tabasco and Chiapas, the people still drink that ancient drink, and it's bitter and delicious. We call it Pozol.

[@JamesPeach]

The mayans didn't just drink it with chillis. They also put honey on it to sweeten it.

[@arianedaawesomegirl9652]

Seth Perry but one question still remains: *WHY WOULD THEY PUT CHILLI IN CHOCOLATE*

[@Nightkicker233]

You can actually buy chocolate with chili and they are really nice, a lot better than mint on freaking chocolate aha

[@ashleymoreno3140]

Ariane da awesome girl cause that shits good af

[@JOKERKYZAR]

@Ariane da awesome girl Actually, there is a Mexican dish called 'Mole', which is chilli and chocolate and it tastes really good, it tastes better than you would think.

[@hetalraiththa1127]

that's mentioned in video

[@ISenjaya71]

Chocolate is made from cocoa which comes from plants. So that means chocolate is technically a vegetable.

[@Raziffalyan]

but tomatoes, oranges, tangerines, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, jack fruit, durians, grapes, apples, goji berries, dates, marijuana, cannabis, wooden desks, wooden tables, wooden chairs, wooden beds, mangosteen, pineapples, rambutan, salak come from plants too...........

[@ISenjaya71]

Razif FA Fruits are really just sweet vegetables, and vegetables are really just fruits that aren't sweet. Think about it.

[@ISenjaya71]

Razif FA Also cannabis and marijuana are dank vegetables, and wooden stuff are just sculpted vegetables.

[@PitukaAJ]

Ibrahim Fadhil Senjaya Vegetarian? NO PROBLEM! CHOCOLATE!!

[@Michaelonyoutub]

a vegetable is an arbitrary culinary term that refers to plants used it cooking but since its arbitrary, not all plants are considered vegetables, just the ones society thinks are vegetables are vegetables. which is why a tomato is still a vegetable even though it is a fruit because vegetable is an arbitrary definition that we apply whether it is botanically a fruit or not. So calling chocolate a vegetable is wrong unless culinary professional and society agree with you, which they would most certainly not.

[@priyaiyer13]

Your voice itself is so comforting 😄

[@Ekka_hashie]

1:51 "let me taste it before giving it to you" "Oh honey it's not good" "I'll eat it , u sleep"

[@blackeyedsusies]

Mexico:has chocolate Spain:FBI OPEN UP!

[@ferrio5012]

USCAN14 here in Europe everybody acknowledges that Mexico is the mother country of chocolate, because 90% of mesoamericans lived in Mexican territory, and also spaniels brought cacao from Mexico first not from Nicaragua or somewhere else. Also the naualth word for chocolate is xocolatl, even in Belgium chefs recognize that thanks to Mexico we got modern chocolate. So stop making it s problem.

[@blankblank5409]

Sorry we took your land. Want some cash

[@Moni-ob7xi]

@@blankblank5409 I recognize that frame in your pfp

[@Moni-ob7xi]

@Izza Kaiser modifyers parody mofifuc-ers

[@jrojas961]

USCAN14 yes but cacao is from Mexico and spread to South America same as corn and chocolate was found by the olmecs or Mayans which both are from Mexico

[@kayavi4931]

Mexico to the rest of the world: “ You’re welcome!”

[@chungyanwong7293]

Not all countries are respectful toward Mexico, you know :(

[@vinny9868]

Everyone Else: I'm pretty sure it was from the Dutch and the Belgians.

[@JustSomeGuyLV]

Having plant in your homeland and not knowing what to do will achieve nothing ✌️ Thank the dutch and belgians for actually discovering chocolate ✌️

[@tlaloc27]

@aneuB adiV xocolatl is nahuatl not maya

[@sweet123shweta]

Are you sure people will come to Mexico?(how about child labour or slavery?)

[@rosariomanriquebargas3441]

I really love the way that you show the history of chocolate. Congratulations

[@OswaldDigestiveClinic]

If you liked this video, you may also want to know that Chocolate sometimes gets a bad rap because chocolate products can include a lot of added sugar. Sometimes, there’s even up to 50g of added sugar in one chocolate bar! For context, the World Health Organization recommends staying under 25 g (or 6 teaspoons) of added sugar per day!

[@ritikas3006]

Hi, I am in the process of my Masters research studies and so I built a business report on the Chocolate Industry. I know it is very difficult to gather so much facts and figures for chocolate. I wish you a good luck and thank you for this video.

[@shahzaibahmad1783]

It's quite interesting to watch it while eating chocolate 🍫

[@sandvillage8758]

I'm drinking hot chocolate while watching this lol it makes it taste better

[@godfather-gh2vq]

chocolate cookie

[@sanvimehta3391]

Shahzaib Ahmad, u guys making me hungry

[@JaKack]

I’m doing the same thing!

[@crazyskeever9966]

I’m going to make some right now.

[@makegreenteanotwar]

In Mexican Nahuatl, “chocolate” is “Xocolatl” & pronounced (shō-cō-lát).

[@adeade3978]

Diego Duarte we added the "e" at the end of the word?

[@karlaruiz8685]

Ade Ade Spanish people added the “e” because “t” sound in Spanish is pronounced “Te”

[@Dragonmongamer]

Diego Duarte Xocolatl kinda sounds like axolotl

[@alfredoquezada3711]

Xocolatl meaning= Bitter Water......FYI.

[@lunzy6492]

Actually its pronunciation is [ʃo'koʷɑ:t͡ɬ] and in Classical Nahuatl language it meant litteraly “Bitter Water” because it hadn’t sugar and they added hot pepper and other spices

[@ewitsmax5249]

"Not everything about chocolate is sweet" Now that hit me.

[@amarshrivastava2753]

Outstanding work, Ted-Ed team ! More power to you.

[@piquantmelk7555]

ha

[@hauseofcards1147]

Bill Zhou rad

[@Bankstercide]

Then the Spaniards came and replaced him with the boring old fuck in the sky we all know and loathe. This is why we can't have good things.

[@ginadab11]

it's like if barney grew wings and demanded human sacrifice.

[@existencedefieslogic9658]

hahaha

[@whathell6t]

andrew reesman Actually, Quetzalcoatl is the most nicest/kindest deity in the Aztec Pantheon. When you read his accomplishments, he is a hero, especially for saving the Flow of Causality and maintaining through the 5th universe; and he, with his eternal rival Tezcaltipoca, defeated/killed the world eater Cipactli because he feasted major parts of the previous four universes which gave short existence to those universes and used Cipactli's corpse to create the 5th universe; and LITERALLY went to hell to collect the final ingredients to create humankind. For all that stuff that Feathered Serpent God did, he doesn't want a human sacrifice ritual for his survival or repayment, in fact he condemns that brutal ritual because it defeats his purpose for creating humankind and diverts the Flow of Causality from its natural path.

[@lori-jeans5563]

0:13 were'd it go??

[@mr.j8511]

I ATE IT WHILE THE CAMERA WAS ON HER FACE

[@twniks3720]

4:18 *realizes that it was actually poop*

[@sanjuanagasca7476]

Thank you God thank you Mexico for Chocolate

[@kenneth2519]

Thank evolution

[@JoseMartinez-fr8ck]

No es mexicano proviene de latino america unos dicen q de honduras otro s q de Peru otros q de 🇲🇽

[@abluejunimo7520]

Everybody hail the chokolate makers

[@tormentedangel667]

You’re welcome!

[@link199100]

@@JoseMartinez-fr8ck es de México, todo el mundo lo sabe

[@link199100]

Thanks Mexico!

[@allymoon9908]

Your Welcome 😊

[@link199100]

@Barrack Obama no u

[@octaviogutierrez9158]

Thank you Mexico from Argentina 🇦🇷❤🇲🇽 UwU

[@Insert-thing-here-Fan]

U mean ¡Grágias México!

[@1017Evelin]

And other components of mesoamerica... which would be guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and northern Nicaragua

[@srishtigarg3866]

how do you create these kind of fantabulous animated videos

[@qoquash6662]

I used this for my school work thank you

[@georgemcintyre4900]

Me too I'm doing online leaning and the teachers recommended this video thank you

[@555sarin]

Chocolate? Did you said chocolate?

[@itsrady5867]

555sarin say*

[@jamessunderland4173]

Yes sir! With or without nuts. :) :)

[@saltysandhya]

Never mind

[@ChrisPPotatoIDC]

My drink? My diet Dr.Kelp?

[@jamessunderland4173]

lol i think it was the krusty krab pizza episode

[@Thelomes1]

good bless Mexico

[@kenneth2519]

God*

[@emilywillen508]

I’m currently taking an anthropology course in Mesoamerica, and my professor (Cameron McNeil) is an excerpt in Mayan Chocolate; She’s an Archaeobotanist who mainly works at Copan. In Oaxaca, they also have a chocolate festival that offers these drinks, though they’re also available at local marketplaces in different villages/cities. We also know a lot from archeologists, who tested pottery vessel residue to determine cocoa recipes. Cocoa preparation varied as well, such as toasting half of the cacao, & leaving the other half untoasted. There are so many different variations of recipes, such as mixed with coconut and peppery-cinnamon flavored local flowers, fermented fruit juices, or mixed with maize (sometimes with flowers that gave off a lemony taste). Using flowers was a huge component to scenting the chocolate drinks (think how we have rose or violets in some gourmet foods). The Mayans didn’t just use honey, they loved wasp honey, which is still utilized today. Chocolate was also incorporated with foods during the Classic Mayan era, such as tamales with chocolate and fish with chocolate. There were also many variations of the cocoa species. The cocoa with red pods for example was much more flavorful but they take longer to grow, which is why the Spanish did not want to take them back to Europe (less profit). Pataxte, related to cocoa, was actually more sacred in ceremony than cocoa but had a much stronger taste. Pataxte was associated with men and healing, while cocoa was associated with women & death. Actually, the Spanish were warned not to drink Mayan Cocoa drinks because if you excepted the drink, it basically told the Mayans that you agreed to be sacrificed. When someone wanted to buy something from the marketplace, they would bring goods, like farmed produce, to an exchange dealer. There the dealer would give you cocoa pods worth the produce you were trading. Then you can go throughout the market and buy other goods. Sadly, a lot of the variations of cocoa are extinct or endangered, mainly in part by corporate companies using land to grow coffee due to demand. Many indigenous Maya (yes, they’re still around), have had to resort to using coca-cola in chocolate ceremonies and at funerals since it is more available... If you do want to read up more on traditional Mayan chocolate, my professor did contribute to a book called “Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao.”

[@donguadalucio1405]

I hope your profesor write a book about Olmecan chocolate, or zapotecan chocolate, or Azteca chocolate not only Mayan chocolate. Olmecas used it before mayans.

[@mel4gamez]

"hey you almost got killed on the war. here have some chocolate"

[@constellious]

DID SOMEBODY SAY CHOCOLATE?

[@7swordquanta459]

*CHOCOLATE!!!*

[@simon-di7xt]

I love you

[@akilaa1271]

Frm

[@anti-usernamesaltaccount3623]

Constellious UM YES

[@arrowpictures2844]

CHOOOCALLLLTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

[@hauseofcards1147]

Aztecs also invented basketball, except the hoop was vertical.

[@feynstein1004]

Isn't that Quidditch?

[@moreira999]

Some Guy Here Not just Aztecs

[@hauseofcards1147]

quidditch hoop is vertical but it's the same height as the player but no backboard. The aztec hoop was vertical too but it was very high up and had a wall/backboard like the traditional basketball game.. it's played a lot like volleyball sometimes but the lower hoop game is played with the hip, much like a basketball court too. Quidditch looks more like a soccer game.

[@TheTokkie]

yea they played with human heads

[@TheTokkie]

yes they did lol they played sports with human heads and sacrificied slaves look up Mesoamerican ballgame there are pictures on temple walls that depict the game with human heads... they enslaved that's why so many tribes aided Cortez to bring down the rest of the Aztecs after they raided their capital. They were an imperial empire that made allot of enemies

[@chihirofujisaki6807]

I believe the drink that your referring with foam is Tejate is from Oaxaca and uses cacao seeds

[@Prchemist06]

1:58 that's french court and the lady sitting is Marie Antoinette..

[@ritwikbehuria9101]

Five minutes have never went so fast! I get deeply immersed in Ted-Ed videos.

[@shadowhunt643]

history of the ice cream

[@shadowhunt643]

pls

[@vianeyboruel504]

the original forms come both from china and mexico ...shaved ice with fruit or plant flavoring cream wasnt added til centuries later

[@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n]

When i get a ice-cream the ice-cream becomes History😉

[@fernandocastillo1972]

I was in Mexico City. I drank hot cocoa consisting of cacao, chili, sugar and only hot water. It was served frothy and it was delish. The chili taste occurred at the end of the drink, very nice

[@marco-boss]

Some videos are about the history of chocolate from the viewpoint of another country. I saw a documentary stating that the Native Americans who discovered chocolate were not smart enough to mix sugar into it. Yet they engineered this great architecture, studied the stars, and created exact calendars many years (if not decades) ahead of their time. Of course, they mixed sugar, honey, and other sweeteners into it. Chocolate was prepared both in its more natural bitter taste and with sweeteners, just like today.

[@pellensanti]

This comment is very rude "were not smart enough"... I love chocolate, but I believe it was much healthier to eat/drink it without sugar...

[@marco-boss]

@@pellensanti __ Thank you for your comment. I believe my comment wasn't written well. I updated the comment hopefully it makes a little bit more sense.

[@soviet-py1bj]

"Kukulkan" that's sounds very familiar

[@painiteeclipse5647]

the KKK?

[@theimmortalemperor3605]

@@painiteeclipse5647 👍

[@pabliux142]

Yet has nothing to do with it

[@alanl.4252]

Question: is the bitter cocoa drink from the Aztecs still made today or has the method of making the drinks all but disappeared?

[@yoszen2892]

@@user-kt5cv3xt4m wrong

[@yoszen2892]

In some regions of Mexico we still have a drink close to the original one, and in some other regions we have a almost identical but modified version of it

[@braumenheimer9607]

@@yoszen2892 What is the recipe of this drink?

[@melodrayo8926]

@@braumenheimer9607 Tasting History has a video on it where he recreates as close a recipe as possible to the Aztecs' one. It's quite interesting. I recommend checking it out.

[@braumenheimer9607]

@@melodrayo8926 SMOOTHNESS! I'll check it out-thanks!

[@macgavinnazareno8360]

Thanks for them

[@the_stargazer_system7671]

I like watching these videos as they're oddly comforting and make me feel really happy :D

[@poemoe1493]

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but yes. Chocolate comes from Mexico, not Switzerland

[@moreira999]

Poe Moe Not just Mexico

[@ondusidaja]

Poe Moe comes from mesoamerica, which isn't just just Mexico

[@poemoe1493]

Don't wanna sound too damn snob, but considering the source language of the word chocolate is nahuatl language, which was spoken by the Aztecs, and the facts history shows about the importance of chocolate in the Aztec territory, (Aztec emperor Montezuma used to consume a great amount cause it was considered aphrodisiac) the way chocolate is known throughout the world is more likely because of the Aztec culinary culture more than the rest of mesoamerica

[@bluedreamkush2392]

Not just Mexico but the whole South American continent. But mostly in the equator

[@Stevenbfg]

The cocoa bean came from Mexico. "Chocolate" did indeed come from Switzerland since they were the first to turn cocoa beans into it.

[@kevindedhia5644]

Thanks A lot TED for amazing videos....U r doing a great thing by spreading knowledge...plzz upload more videos on such things.... Let the world know it's history...👍

[@OswaldDigestiveClinic]

Thanks for sharing this info! Chocolate sometimes gets a bad rap because chocolate products can include a lot of added sugar. Sometimes, there’s even up to 50g of added sugar in one chocolate bar! For context, the World Health Organization recommends staying under 25 g (or 6 teaspoons) of added sugar per day!

[@imakevideo2141]

Thanks for only boosting my chocolate craving

[@marcogarrido3781]

De nada 😎 Sincerely yours, a Mexican.

[@hexwolfi]

Muchas gracias, compañero *disfruta una pizca de chocolate*

[@adeade3978]

I rather thank The winged serpent for dem chocolates

[@tarniabook3076]

Gracias de parte de una española. Disfrutemos del alimento de vuestros antiguos dioses.

[@alondracarreno1376]

Marco Garrido Maz bien De Nada 😎 Sincerely yours, an Aztec descendant

[@samd3764]

That moment when TED-ED connects important events in history to something comparatively insignificant and you are MIND BLOWN

[@anamikapathak7919]

Can ted ed release a music video with the music they start and end with? Is there already such a video?

[@thomasaquinas2600]

Chocolate is probably the most 'surprising' food there is. If you look at the 'fruit' itself, and then a chocolate bar, it's hard to imagine how one came from the other. Of course, it took the interaction of the people from the New World, together with European touches, to get that chocolate bar, and Milton Hershey to make it affordable and American...

[@ryanmuhammadsyahran5747]

Thanks mexico

[@Vejlaniyusuf]

loved your channel!!you are one of my best teacher.

[@KimTuLy]

Man, Im obsessed with this thing.

[@swagnilla_ice]

Reminding myself of things which are needed to change is one of the many reasons I prefer dark chocolate. That and the health benefits over regular and milk chocolate.

[@oldcowbb]

the history of chocolate is like a box of chocolate

[@mr.salisbury2435]

u never know what you're going to get

[@insertobject4002]

I get that reference

[@DeAngeloYouKnow]

Me: Eats chocolate bar Me: stops eating chocolate bar and thinks about child labor Me: proceeds to eat chocolate bar because I paid for that damn chocolate bar.

[@KaCaro38]

“Not everything about chocolate is sweet”, so true! It’d be great to be always aware where our products come from and who worked so hard to make them happen. Honor indigenous communities and farmers around the world 💚✨

[@trungnghiem8881]

Covid 19 makes me stay at home so i am listening to this so improve my listening skill

[@prasundutta1444]

Ted-Ed's last lines are always philosophical

[@el_gatoxd7925]

Saludos desde Ecuador C: he encontrado este canal y se ha convertido en uno de mis favoritos. Gracias por los conocimientos que aportan :D. 💗

[@Truthspeaks1]

Well that was informative , short and sweet

[@atharvakulkarniaugmentedre9931]

Does anyone know which font family is used for text in video?

[@meowmers3259]

Chocolate? Chocolate?! CHOCOLATE!!!!!!! CHOCOLATE!!!! *chases Spongebob and Patrick while screaming chocolate*

[@imenmazhoud3848]

I suddenly felt sick when i reached to the part where millions of children are used Chocolate won't feel the same to me anymore😭

[@skevan6641]

It will dude iiiit wiiiill.

[@LakeNarrow]

You can always buy Fair Trade chocolate

[@user-nq6ln1wv8b]

@@LakeNarrow fair trade is legit stuff

[@Ekenaa]

I mean, just like our phones, our clothes, a lot of anything that's mass produced. This is a global problem.

[@pranavraja1503]

Lol then you are gonna feel sick about everything in your life.

[@JuliaVilla]

Perfect Video! Congrats 👏🏻

[@OswaldDigestiveClinic]

If you appreciated this video, you may also want to know that pure cocoa is high in polyphenols. This is exciting because polyphenols can suppress bad gut microbes and encourage the growth of good microbes! We need our gut microbiota to be in balance, and polyphenols can help with that!

[@spiritoflegend7483]

I remember finding this video in the 6th grade and watching it instead of doing my work

[@PokeTubeable]

Mesoamericans: *Here, some choccy juice*

[@rice_and_nuggets]

thanks mesoamerica

[@maryjog9347]

The number of your like is what kind of chocolate candy you are: 1: snickers 2: Milky Way 3: Reece’s pieces 4: Hershey’s bar 5: m & m 6: kit kat 7: 3 musketeers 8: butterfinger 9: Twix

[@trashw1894]

Butterfinger

[@keiohnrogers9036]

Hershey's and m & m

[@mrpp3222]

Savoy

[@ok-op8lg]

Hershey's.

[@katherinewatkins1933]

*4*

[@maxdukhovskoy1406]

"chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate" That doesn't even sound like a word anymore

[@RebmE]

I LOVED CHOCOLATE😊 and I am glad I listened to this video and I am happy I am not born before the time chocolate was created Also there is a chocolate factory in the Philippines and it’s also known as the *Malagos Chocolate Museum* to all Filipinos and you can create your own chocolate!

[@bloosem6909]

Did you listen at the end

[@k1ng11_1]

@@bloosem6909 I don't think they do lmao