Yachana Gourmet Jungle Chocolate

You're just going to love this Fair Trade Chocolate!! Cacao Trees produce chocolate beans that are carefully selected, fermented, and dried in special solar dryers.

Next they're roasted to perfection and de-husked, producing little bits of pure chocolate. Nothing is taken out of this chocolate; all the natural cocoa butter and flavor remains! The chocolate bits are then dipped into Amazon cane syrup to provide just a hint of sweetness. They're as rich and natural as the Amazon itself!

Yachana Gourmet buys natural coffee beans from the farmers in the same region where they buy the cocoa. These special beans are roasted, ground, brewed, and cooked down until the consistency is much thicker than a normal coffee. This "essence of coffee" is blended with the natural chocolate bits and organic brazil nuts from Peru, and cooked.

In other words, they pour a thick pot of intense coffee flavor in with the pure chocolate bits and brazil nuts - a fair trade chocolate treat!

This is not processed chocolate with added ingredients! Unlike processed chocolate that contains milk, butter, sugar, vanilla and other ingredients, this is truly natural.

Made with the finest all-natural ingredients, all flavors are healthy, low in fat, vegan, and contain no GMOs.

A chocolate bar might be eaten in one sitting, but a 2 oz. package of Jungle Chocolate contains lots of servings. Just a few morsels in the palm of your hand are enough to satisfy the cravings of most chocolate lovers. Use them as a trail mix when hiking or camping. Sprinkle them as an ice cream or frozen yogurt topping, add them to baked goods for a nutty and crunchy chocolate taste, and ....well, just let your chocolate imagination go wild!

We've had customers who are on the Atkins or South Beach diets tell us that Yachana Jungle Chocolates are quite a find, because this natural chocolate is low in sugar and carbohydrates.

Not only will you and your chocolate-loving friends love this Jungle Chocolate's great taste, but you'll be making a positive difference in Ecuador through your Fair Trade purchase!

Yachana Gourmet pays farmers 200% to 300% above the local market price for their cacao and adds value by producing this delicious chocolate product. Additionally, Yachana Jungle Chocolate carries the certification of the Fair Trade Federation and all aspects of its production adhere to fair trade principles helping people of the Ecuadorian rainforest live better lives.

The Ecuadorian Government says that this project is a truly viable alternative in Ecuador to industries involved in the growing and trafficking of cocaine.

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Yachana Gourmet is an ecologically conscious, socially progressive company designed to purchase agricultural commodities grown in the rain forest, add value to these products in the jungle, and open international markets. Yachana Gourmet produces a unique chocolate product, known as Yachana Jungle Chocolate, for export to the world.

Yachana Gourmet has created a fair market where none previously existed. For local farmers, these favorable terms of trade have strengthened the case for viable economic alternatives to unsustainable land uses, such as unregulated logging, cattle ranching, and the cultivation of illicit crops.

Your purchase of Jungle Chocolate helps Yachana Gourmet:

Increase small producers' incomes by cutting out exploitative middlemen and paying Fair Trade prices; Offer a secure and stable market on which local subsistence farmers can depend; Provide technical assistance to enhance local productivity and competitiveness; and Support FUNEDESIN's rainforest conservation and sustainable development projects. Yachana Gourmet is just one project of FUNEDESIN (www.funedesin.org), a non-profit organization, which was founded to help improve the lives of those living in communities along the Napo river in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador. FUNEDESIN strives to find workable solutions in the struggles between the ideals of rainforest preservation and the realities of life in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin through innovative projects related to education, health care, income generation and agricultural development. All profits from your purchase of these unique fair trade chocolates support Funedesin's rainforest preservation projects. In addition, if you're interested in seeing cacao harvesting and a tour of the Amazon chocolate processing plant, please see www.yachana.com for great eco-tours!

Yachana Gourmet is enhancing the region's long-term ability to succeed economically while protecting its natural resources.