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Fruition Dominican Nacional Dark 74%

Fruition Dominican Nacional Dark 74%

Weight: 60 g

Regular price $16.50
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Reasons to Love

Bean to Bar

Bean to Bar

Direct-Source Cacao

Direct Sourced

Woman Owned

Woman Owned

This cacao, originally native to Ecuador, was brought to the Dominican Republic in the 1970s and planted in clonal gardens. Fruition is honored to be one of the first chocolate makers in the United States to access this rare, specially cultivated lot of Nacional beans.

Awards
GF-2023 Award ICA-silver-2022 Award

Manufactured in a facility which also processes dairy

Trace Dairy

Organic Cacao

Organic

Manufactured in a facility which also processes peanuts

Trace Peanuts

Trace Sesame

Trace Sesame

Soy Free

Soy Free

Manufactured in a facility which also processes Tree Nuts

Trace Tree Nut

No animal products, and vegan sugar or alternative sweetener

Vegan+

Manufactured in a facility which also processes wheat or gluten

Trace Gluten

INGREDIENTS & ALLERGENS

Ingredients: organic cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter


Produced in a facility that contains peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, milk, eggs, soy and sesame. Cross-contamination is possible due to shared equipment.

SHIPPING & GIFT OPTIONS

Free standard shipping for US orders $75+ or $6.99 Flat Rate. Faster options available at checkout. Warm weather? We ship with eco-friendly ice and insulation for no melt shipping.

International: Canada: $9.99 Flat Rate $150+ Other Countries: Rates calculated at checkout.

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Maker

Fruition Chocolate

Fruition Chocolate was created in 2011 by Bryan Graham located in Shokan, NY. Graham, was always interested in pastry as a young boy and has worked his way as a pastry chef. Over the years, Fruition is keen on exceptional attention to detail from the calibration of ingredients, packaging, and appearance of the bar (mold, snap, color) make them one of our top bean to bar craft chocolate makers in the world. Fruition has won many awards for their bars over the years, including ‘Best in Competition” Fruition was one of the first bean to bar makers to experiment with new concepts such as bourbon-barrel aging and creating bars with just two ingredients.

Cacao Region

Duarte, Dominican Republic

Duarte is a northern province of the Dominican Republic, named after Juan Pablo Duarte, the founder of the country. The province is located in the eastern portion of the Cibao Valley, and finds its economic base in both commercial industry & processing, and agriculture. Duarte grows over two-thirds of the Dominican Republic’s exported cacao, as well as ~60% of the rice consumed within the country; other crops include coffee, tobacco, and bananas.

Cacao Strain

Nacional

Nacional 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.

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