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Bean to Bar
Bean to Bar
Direct-Source Cacao
Direct Sourced
Family Owned
Family Owned
This cocoa from the Esmeraldas province, whose pods are yellow and grainy, reveals a taste of buttered biscuit and caramel. This cocoa grows in the northern zone of the province of Esmeraldas, which is covered by a tropical forest. The villages are mainly on the riversides and the traditional means of transport is by canoe. The cocoa tree is a native tree of the region and has always contributed to the economic support of communities. It is cultivated in agroforestry, under the shade of several varieties of trees such as mango, banana, coconut, orange and wood trees.
Ingredients: Cocoa beans, whole milk , cane sugar, cocoa butter, sunflower lecithin.
Certified EU Organic
EU Organic
Contains dairy
Dairy
Manufactured in a facility which also processes peanuts
Trace Peanuts
Soy Free
Soy Free
Manufactured in a facility which also processes treenuts
Trace Treenut
Gluten Free
Gluten Free
Maker
Chocolaterie A. MorinCountry
FranceCacao Origin
Ecuador
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Maker
Chocolaterie A. MorinA Morin Chocolatiers are a 4th generation chocolate maker in Donzère, France. Chocolatiers from father to son since 1994, André Morin founded Chocolaterie A. Morin in 1958 to start making bean to bar chocolate. Since then, they have created artisan chocolate in accordance with chocolate making tradition.They have spent years cultivating relationships with their cocoa producers and farmers to create their line of single origin chocolate bars. They also cultivate over 15,000 acres of fruit and nut orchards to use as raw ingredients such as almonds, hazelnuts and cherries for their pralines, pastes, nougats and jams.
Cacao Region
Esmeraldas, EcuadorEsmeraldas is the northernmost province of Ecuador, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and western Colombia. The province is notable for its strong Afro-Ecuadorian culture & seafood-based cuisine, as well as the beautiful beaches. Much of Esmeraldas’ population relies upon agriculture to make a living, with the most important crops being banana, tobacco, coffee, and cacao.
Cacao Strain
NacionalNacional is one of those ten evolutionarily unique types identified in 2008, using samples collected throughout the Americas over the previous century. Samples proven to be of the nacional cluster were taken from Ecuador and northern Peru, where it’s considered one of the traditional cacao cultivars; it was domesticated by indigenous Ecuadorians over 5000 years ago, reaching far beyond its small native growing region. Many years ago, however, the cultivar neared extinction as more productive clones replaced the region’s native trees. Nacional is known to be fruity & floral, with some astringency and almost no bitterness.
