Alara Organic Cacao Nibs are also known as the food of the Gods, these are delicately broken chunks of the cacao bean – the ingredient from which all chocolate is made.  We first heard about chocolate over 1, 500 years ago in Central America where the Maya harvested cacao trees in the rainforest. They invented a drink made from the cacao beans called “ Xocolatl”, where the name chocolate comes from. Cacao beans were also used as currency by the Aztecs & were worth more than gold or silver at that time. Then, chocolate was brought to Europe when the Spanish colonised America.