Description
Your cacao will arrive in a cotton cloth – I recommend to place her in a box in a cool dark location. I find she’s more content and potent stored in cotton.
Peruvian Organic Raw Criollo Cacao
WHY IT’S GREAT QUALITY We use the King of Cacao – Organic Raw Criollo Cacao beans – in our cacao liquor, we use very high quality Criollo aromatic bean, It’s considered a delicacy and prized for its superior flavour – the result of the bean’s higher fat content. All our cacao is 100% raw, pure cacao. Nothing added, nothing taken away. No additives or preservatives. No nasties. It doesn’t just taste good, as you probably know cacao does good too. This ceremonial organic raw cacao is a high functioning superfood; packed full of nutrients and antioxidants. And we make sure it stays that way, it’s raw cacao, retaining far more nutrients and goodness than beans that have been roasted, or alkalised using the Dutch process.
WHERE IT’S FROM Our Organic, Criollo Cacao Beans are grown in the Peruvian Amazon by a cooperative of 20+organic farms, the spiritual home of cacao. Enjoyed by locals long before they shared its secrets with the outside world, cacao and Peru have an intertwined history. Almost all of Peru’s cacao is grown by small holders who rely on it as their main source of income year-round. Most of the harvesting takes place between April and September and is called “la cosecha grande”, which literally means “the big harvest” in Spanish. Their crop is sold to our cooperatives who act as our intermediaries. It’s then processed and boxed in Peru before being trucked to Lima and exported to you in the UK.
Environmental impact
Peruvian cacao is grown sustainably amongst trees or shrubs, using the Agroforestry land management system. This method has much less environmental impact than the fertiliser-heavy plantations that are common in West Africa and which cause so much deforestation.
