Mexico 91 %

High percentage, pale bar. Delicious chocolate made from rare pale cocoa from Tabasco, Mexico.

‘Almendra Blanca’ means ‘white almond’, because the white colour of this bean makes the finished bar look paler than usual, despite the high cocoa content.

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This special cocoa comes from the 30-hectare estate, which is used by Agrofloresta for training indigenous smallholder farmers participating in the Selva Tabasqueño project. In 2014, Hugo Francisco Chavez and his friends started Agrofloresta Mesoamericana to transform a degraded site into a diverse cocoa forest, which is used as a demonstration farm for organic cocoa cultivation in an agroforestry system using local tree species for wood.

Only ten local varieties are grown on the farm, which are the result of decades of selection of native cacao trees. They now represent some of the best Criollo Tabasqueño cocoa, commonly known as Almendra Blanca because most of these cocoas have white beans.
Since some Criollo Tabasqueño with purple cocoa beans are also available and have excellent taste characteristics, the farm does not only store cocoa beans with white seeds.

Availability is limited to quantities around 1 tonne/year. Of the 2021 harvest, only about 400 kg went to Europe

Ingredients: Cocoa beans, raw cane sugar, cocoa butter