USDA Certified Organic. Tree-to-bar chocolate grown and made completely in Grenada. The silver medal winner at the 2008 Academy of Chocolate Awards for Best Dark Organic bar. This bar impressed us too with its sweet vanilla aroma and deep cappuccino - marshmallow favors with hints of strawberries and cinnamon. 71% Cacao. 85g (3oz) Bar.

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Ingredients: Organic cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic soy lecithin, organic vanilla beans.



  PLANET POSITIVES:

+ USDA Certified Organic

+ Produced in a factory powered by solar energy

+ Tree–to–bar chocolate produced in the country of origin for maximum economic impact to the local community

+ The bar wrapper is printed on recycled stock using vegetable–based inks.

PROFILE: Grenada Chocolate Company

Grenada Chocolate Company's solar–powered factory sits in the Caribbean rainforest among the lush cocoa groves. It's here that the organically farmed cacao is transformed into gloriously complex chocolate. Grenada is able to achieve award–winning results through control and involvement in all steps of the process: from the farms in the cocoa growing cooperative to the bean fermentation process. The results are obvious in the deep complex flavors developed in the bars. The deep espresso, cream and vanilla flavors and aromas are dazzling.

The chocolate is certified organic with every ingredient being organic starting with, of course, the cacao, sugar, biodynamically grown vanilla from Costa Rica, and organic soy lecithin in very small amounts as an emulsifier (allows them to fill the mold more easily since their molds have some more complex artwork). Grenada advertises: "all of our products are nut free - not a trace."

Local involvement in this enterprise doesn't stop with the cocoa farmers. Rather, the factory itself is run and owned by Grenadians. This takes the fair trade model even further and shares more of the benefits with the local population.