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Raw cacao mass · Los Ríos, Esmeraldas and Manabí, Ecuador

Ecuador Arriba Nacional raw cacao

€691 kg, plus shipping

  • Cacao mass from unroasted beans
  • Arriba Nacional, a fine cacao variety
  • For ceremony or making your own chocolate
  • From small farmers' cooperatives in Ecuador
  • Organic farming
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Floral, nutty, a touch of citrus

About

It grows among many fruit trees, and you can taste it: floral and nutty, with a light citrus note of mango and orange.

Made with great care, it melts almost like chocolate. Smooth and even, with a soft shine.

Like all our cacao, it keeps everything the bean has. Lovely in ceremony, in any warm drink, or as the base for your own chocolate.

Freshly picked cacao pods, yellow and deep red
Two people sorting cacao beans by hand on a wooden frame
Cacao beans spread out to dry in the sun
Tall trees in a cacao forest garden in Ecuador

Los Ríos, Esmeraldas and Manabí, Ecuador

Origin

Ecuador is one of the first places where people grew cacao, and Arriba Nacional is loved all over the world for its taste.

This cacao grows in mixed gardens in Los Ríos, Esmeraldas and Manabí. Local people pick it and bring it to small cooperatives, where it is fermented, dried and gently made into cacao mass.

Noble and gentle, from Ecuador

In ceremony

Dense, balanced and powerful at once. Loving, embracing and peaceful.

It calms the mind, touches the third eye and flows into the heart, and from there down to the roots.

An invitation to the wisdom of the ancestors. Gentle enough to open a ritual, for one person or a whole group.