Gold Standard Ceremonial Grade Cacao. Boost your mood, elevate your energy, live with gratitude, set intentions for your life. An invitation for connection with your own heart, with your loved ones, your community, and with plants as medicine. Supports grounding, meditation, & heart-opening. Creamy, silky texture with a rich, smooth, & complex flavor. Unlike any 100% dark chocolate or baking chocolate produced from commodity cocoa, and contains crucial fats unlike cocoa powder or brewed cacao.
A Whole Food. Ceremonial cacao is made from premium whole cacao beans with nothing added or removed and minimal processing. Cocoa powder, in contrast, is made from the lowest quality cacao beans, and highly processed to separate the cocoa butter, losing the essential fat based carrier mechanism for delivering the health benefits of cacao. Brewing cacao runs water through cacao nibs for a watery drink, while ceremonial cacao uses the whole bean in the drink to deliver optimum health benefits.
A coffee substitute that promotes sustained energy without jitters or crashes. With 212mg of Theobromine, the primary stimulant in cacao. Supports heart health and increases blood circulation. Rich in essential minerals and nutrients such as magnesium, chromium, copper, calcium, manganese, zinc, sulfur, and iron. No sugar added, suitable for diabetics. Contains high levels of flavonols and flavanols.
Ethical and Direct Trade. We buy from small family farms practicing regenerative, organic certified agroforestry. Our small team travels to each of the cacao communities that we source from to establish reciprocal, long-term relationships that result in thriving for all. Our social impact model pays farmers some of the highest prices for cacao in each country that we source from, and produces premium quality organic cacao. Lab tested, heavy metal free, and traceable, unlike most raw cacao paste.
Beneficial for Mood. Pure cacao contains beneficial neurotransmitters and neuro-modulators already present in our brain. It also contains reuptake inhibitors that block the pathways that our bodies normally use to break down and recycle these beneficial mood altering molecules, so the good mood lasts for longer. In the long term, cacao can have therapeutic health benefits, including creating new neural pathways that change our daily experience to include more joy, love, and connection.