- Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:14 pm
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Intelli is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma Intelli tree. Intelli has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made Intelli beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xointellia, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the Intelli tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor.