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Plantations™100% Arriba Cocoa • Rainforest Alliance Certified Sustainable Cocoa Program

Plantations™ is a full line of the highest quality, organically produced, single origin, Arriba chocolate.

Grown solely in Ecuador, "Arriba" is a special cocoa varietal with a perfumed floral scent. Its flavor is smooth, with a dominant jasmine note and nutty after-tones. The Arriba Cocoa bean is classified as a “Fine Flavor Cocoa”, a classification that includes only 5% of the world Cocoa production.

In order to present you with the purest flavor of Arriba chocolate, there is no vanilla nor "covering" aroma or extra vegetable fat added to the bars - just the Arriba cocoa bean, carefully roasted and ground.

Our dark chocolates are processed to maintain a high level of natural antioxidants and because we don’t add extra cocoa butter in the processing, they are lower in fat than most other chocolates. Our milk chocolate is processed the “old fashioned” way – with only whole milk and cocoa mass. It is not diluted in deodorized low quality cocoa butter. As with our Dark chocolates we don’t add vanilla or other flavours as is often done to mask the bitterness of generic cocoa. With the Plantations chocolate, you can enjoy the pure flavour of the finest Arriba cocoa.

Plantations chocolate allows you to experience the uniquely rich Arriba aromas in baking or tasting bars from 65% to 100% cocoa. The 100% Arriba bar and baking chocolate is completely sugar-free. The milk chocolate bars will be available with other fruits and nuts also grown in the rain forest – the first of these being Rainforest Alliance Certified macadamia nuts. This range was developed to help farmers to keep growing shaded tropical fruit and nuts, thereby maximizing their income from the rain forest.

As part of our commitment to making a truly sustainable product, the chocolate is manufactured and packaged in Ecuador, thus creating valuable processing and manufacturing jobs.

The Plantations™ chocolates are the first chocolates to be certified by the Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Alliance, an international conservation group whose mission is to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them, sets rigorous social and environmental standards for such crops as cocoa, coffee and bananas, which are readily available to restaurateurs, chefs, hoteliers, supermarkets and other retailers worldwide.

The Rainforest Alliance certifies cocoa farms that meet its exacting set of social and environmental standards, including access to education and health care and improved water and soil quality. As a result, participating farmers grow their cocoa in harmony with the rainforest, without using synthetic pesticides or herbicides.

Other Plantations™ Arriba chocolate offerings: Instant Chocolate Drink, Raw Cocoa Beans, Roasted Cocoa Nibs, and 3 new 100g 75% dark chocolate bars, one with Macadamia Nuts, one with Quinoa, and one with Quinoa and Spicy Aji. And now look for our new Soy Milk Chocolate Bar!

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