Nah, no way a country that produces cacao and coffee, hasn't already figured out how to make some kind of food or drink from them after thousands of years of production. People will try to eat anything, even poisonous stuff, just in case there's a method.
I just noticed how casually she dropped coffee on an unsuspecting populace like damn those people aren’t goin to understand what “acts as a stimulant” means until they are in withdrawal