Original Beans – Simply Cusco, Peru Dark 65% Couverture (2kg)

About the couverture

This 65% dark couverture is tropical and rich, with notes of melon and pineapple.

About the maker

Original Beans was founded in 2008 by Philipp Kauffmann, a former conservationist at the World Wildlife Fund and the United Nations, to be a regenerative chocolate making company that focuses on protecting farmers, the rainforest, and thousands of endangered species. Their One Bar: One Tree programme promises that a tree is planted every time an Original Beans bar is sold, which can be tracked on their website with a special code on the back of the packet.

The beans

The beans in this bar come from the Cusco Valley in the Peruvian Andes, a stone’s throw from the ancient mountain-top city of Machu Picchu. Cusco Valley is home to the Chuncho bean, one of Peru’s rarest varieties of cocoa, which gives this bar such a unique flavour profile. The Machiguenga, an indigenous people who live in the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru, still use the beans today as currency for commercial exchange.

Nutritional info coming soon.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients coming soon.

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