Cacao comes from the tree Theobroma cacao, which literally means cacao, food of the gods.  Cacao is the raw from of what we have come to know as chocolate or cocoa. Chocolate is one of the most popular and reverred foods in the entire world. Depending on whom you ask, it even rivals incredible sex.  It is an exceptional food with hundreds of complex chemicals including stimulants and antioxidants, mood elevators and aphrodisiacs. When cacao is heated, highly processed, mixed with dairy a vast number of the nutrients are destroyed.