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Revered by ancient cultures as the food of the gods, Cacao Beans were once traded as currency. Today, science is catching up with ancients: Cacao may be the most concentrated source of antioxidants on the planet... and Cacao Beans are the most potent form of Cacao, since they’re closest to the original source. Crack open two or three for a concentrated burst of energy and antioxidants that will keep you going all day long.
What’s so special about Organic Whole Cacao Beans? Quite simply, this is the most natural and ancient form of chocolate available. Essential Living Foods’ partners in Ecuador must follow a very meticulous, proprietary process to produce such clean, attractive beans.
Here’s just a glimpse of what it entails: First, the large football-shaped pods are removed from Cacao trees and sliced open. The white, sticky beans are then removed and taken to a nearby facility for processing. There the mucilaginous, white outer skin of the fresh whole bean is washed off using a unique process.
Next, it is dried in a unique, very-low-temperature process that preserves the vital nutrients of the bean while also preventing excessive fermentation. The result is a very lightly fermented bean (10% or less)—with the ideal chocolate flavor AND the full spectrum of delicate nutrients. During this process the bean’s highly nutritious polyphenols undergo a variety of reactions that help maximize their potency and bioavailability.
What Separates Essential Living Foods’ Cacao Beans from Others?
How have we managed to produce such clean, consistent raw cacao beans? Most cacao beans are fermented. They need to be in order to reduce the high acidity and bitter flavors in most raw beans. We choose only the highest quality beans from an heirloom variety of cacao, the pride of Ecuador and prized the world over by chocolate aficionados, Cacao Nacional Fino de Aroma. Having the best quality beans to begin with allows us to make our Cacao Beans truly raw and maximally nutritious.
Nutritional Benefits
* Extremely credible sources, such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Cornell University, Harvard and others have recently presented very convincing evidence that chocolate — specifically DARK CHOCOLATE — is one of the world’s healthiest foods.
* Some experts consider it to be the #1 source of magnesium of any food.
* Research has shown dark chocolate to also be the #1 antioxidant food, with approximately twice as many antioxidants as red wine and three times as many as green tea.
* Finally, chocolate also contains an abundance of Phenylethylamine (PEA) and Anandamide, two chemicals that can make your brain feel focused and happy.
Why Use Cacao Beans?
Raw, Whole Cacao Beans are the most natural cacao product in the world. It’s the closest you can get to eating the food fresh from the tree. And because this is the least processed chocolate product, it’s also the most nutritious form of chocolate in existence. As healthy as other versions of chocolate are—like nibs, powder, bars, etc.—you always trade convenience for nutrition. Quite simply, this product gives you the most nutritional bang for your buck.
ABOUT ESSENTIAL LIVING FOODS.
Social Impact
At Essential Living Foods, we believe that business needs to have a positive impact on the world, using the power of commerce to improve lives, communities, and ecosystems. We strive to be a “good corporate citizen” in a multitude of ways, creating positive social impact with our business model, the partners we choose, giving back a portion of our revenues and profits, how we treat our employees, and the nutritional and healing properties of our products. Everyone who works here feels great about doing something good in the world while earning a decent living at the same time.
Fair Trade
Essential Living Foods started as an importer of unique organic foods, and from the beginning we’ve built our business on paying fair prices to our farming partners. We do our best to go directly to the source whenever possible, bypassing middleman so we can deliver the best value to our customers AND pay premium prices to the growers. There are a few different certifying organizations out there putting a third party seal on these fair trade practices. We are working with all of them to get these seals in place, but even while that is in process, you can rest assured that your purchases from Essential Living Foods is supporting farmers through equitable trade practices!
Giving Back
We don’t just pay fair prices for our foods – we share our success with our farming communities by giving back a portion of what we make.
Sustainability
Sustainability is a big word for us. It means that we have to sustain our business, because if we aren’t profitable and growing, we won’t exist in the future to continue doing the good that we’re doing. It also means that we want to do everything we can to not deplete non-renewable resources and to rebuild and protect fragile ecosystems. We do this at the farm level by the organic agriculture techniques we use, as well as things like powering our office on solar power and buying carbon credits to offset all of our corporate air travel and all of our food import transportation carbon emissions.
Partners
Money flows around and around. We make money from the sales of our products, and we try to do as much good as we can with how and from whom we purchase our foods from. But aside from buying our amazing, healthy, organic superfoods, we also spend a lot of money each year on more mundane items like banking services, legal services, etc. We try to find companies of a like mind to ours to work with. We find that they understand us better, and hence can offer us better service, and we feel good that we can keep the prosperity flowing to other companies doing good in the world. Check out this link to see just some of these great partners we have!
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