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An Introduction to Sustainable Craft Chocolate

Check out our guide about craft chocolates, How it made, where it come from, and what are the obstacle to made them. From bean-to-bar chocolates to organic chocolate bars, we've got you covered in detail.

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An Introduction to Sustainable Craft Chocolate

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  1. An Introduction To SUSTAINABLE CRAFT CHOCOLATE By Chocomashpi - Handmade Mashpi Chocolates

  2. A decade ago, almost everyone within the industry would describe craft chocolate as“Bean to Bar chocolate”and it was associated a smaller but growing market segment. But guess what? While at the time craft chocolate was a tiny segment of the market, it has grown exponentially. In the last decade, the market for craft chocolate has continued to grow, and the scale in which it has been growing is i exponential. www.chocomashpi.com

  3. In the past, in the United States, there were only half a dozen dark chocolate makers trying to compete with a couple of giants in the chocolate industry who dominated the market, but now there are hundreds of small, craft, conscious and fun chocolate makers all around the country. History of Craft Chocolates This rate of new businesses being created is quite high not only in the USA, but also in Asia and Latin America. It is also interesting to know that craft chocolate is, nowadays, not limited to chocolate bars, but it also includes all kinds of other cacao-derived products such as cacao pulp, cacao nibs, cocoa butter and others. The best part of all of this t’s not only about the chocolate anymore, and brands like us (Mashpi Chocolate) have taken it above and beyond to help tackle the social and ethical issues. www.chocomashpi.com

  4. AWARENESS BRINGS CONSCIOUSNESS In the past, people would purchase chocolate to satisfy a craving. but over the last few years, a niche of the population has become aware of the ethical and environmental issues related to chocolate. www.chocomashpi.com

  5. Chocolate is made by fermenting, drying, toasting and grounding seeds that come from a tropical fruit called Cacao. The entire chocolate process takes about two weeks if done in the same place by the same people. WHERE DOES CHOCOLATE COME FROM? In general and for the mass market of chocolate, the different stages of the cacao between harvest and becoming chocolate happen in different physical places and under supervision of different people. Most of the cacao harvested in the world needs to move fast out of a farm and into warehouses so the big factories can buy it fast and sell chocolate fast, and therefore all the stages of transformation of the chocolate, which should be very carefully monitored, don’t get the attention required to make good chocolate. www.chocomashpi.com

  6. Problems in Cacao Industry Cacao is expensive than the other ingredients, so by using less of it and using the cheaper ingredients as fillers, the cost is less and second, because these cacao beans, in general, have not had a careful control of procedures, resulting in badly tasting cacao beans. Another problem in the cacao industry is the quality of the cacao itself. Most mass-commercial cacao is grown with heavy use of chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) and with intense genetic manipulation to reduce disease and increase yield. www.chocomashpi.com

  7. OUR AIM At Mashpi Chocolate we aim to tackle, even if on a small scale, all of these issues in the chocolate industry. When we started this project, we never dreamed of becoming a chocolate maker: all we cared about was restoring the soil. It was the Universe itself who walked us in the direction of producing chocolate and on the way, to learn about all these problems that Cacao carries along. By using agroforestry, a regenerative system that goes beyond organic, we went from a soil that was completely depleted of nutrients to a thriving food forest with over 200 species of plants and animals in which everyone (including us, humans), lives in harmony. Everyone working in our project is treated the same, we each have our own responsibilities but we all are as important, and we empower our team members to create food sovereignty to reduce social injustice. We constantly work on female empowerment because we have seen that when you empower the female in a rural area (as the one we’re located on) the benefits are felt more extensively. www.chocomashpi.com

  8. OUR FOCUS AND DUTIES From community development to women empowerment and with a focus on healthy ecosystems, we do everything to ensure that our part is played right towards social justice. We must ensure fair wages to all cacao growers and make sure to take steps to minimize negative environmental impact of cacao when produced wrongly, and educate other growers to use cacao and its related species to turn around the current situation and make it an ally in environmental protection www.chocomashpi.com

  9. Thank You www.chocomashpi.com

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