Tag: cocoabeans
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Your chocolates are going to cost you more! Why?
Your chocolates are going to cost you more! Why? Cocoa bean prices have skyrocketed in 2024 ever since there is a global shortage in supply, reaching new heights of 12,000 USD a ton; prices have gone 4x in a year. What is driving this unprecedented hike in prices?West African countries (Ghana and Ivory Coast) produce…
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Cacao beans was once a currency
Papa:Money doesn’t grow on trees.Son:I hate you 🙂This idiom wouldn’t have existed if Mayan culture hadn’t collapsed; yes, money did grow on trees. Research published in the Journal Economic Anthropology suggests Mesoamerican civilization (Maya civilization) may have used cacao beans as a mode of payment, more like a currency.In the Aztec Empire (currently central Mexico),…