Seventeenth-century chocolate, being liquid, did not violate the rules of ecclesiastical fasting: Liquidum non frangit jejunum, and this meant it could be drunk without sinning.
El chocolate del siglo XVII, al ser líquido, no infringía las reglas del ayuno eclesiástico: Liquidum non frangit jejunum, de modo que se podía tomar sin incurrir en pecado.