Green & Black Makes Toward All Fair Trade Certification

PARSIPPANY, N.J., (SweeterChocolates.blogspot.com)Pioneering organic chocolate maker Green & Black's today announces its commitment to move its entire chocolate range, worldwide, to Fair Trade – including the United States. Fifteen years ago Green & Black's led the Fair Trade movement by launching Maya Gold® – the first ever Fair Trade Certified™ product in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Green & Black's is the number one chocolate in the Natural channel(1). Green & Black's entire range is already organic, and thanks to continued expansion around the world, this move will make Green & Black's the world's leader in organic and Fair Trade chocolate. 

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Sweet Earth Chocolates Niche for Organic Fair-trade Chocolates

Chocolate is one of life’s sweetest guilty pleasures. Luckily, the owners of Sweet Earth Chocolates in San Luis Obispo are doing their best to offer guilt-free ways to meet the needs of your sweet tooth.

The idea for the company began simply enough. Tom Neuhaus, associate professor of food science and nutrition at Cal Poly, and his wife, Eve, were looking for some sort of modest business to run after Tom retired from full-time teaching.

Something like Sweet Earth seemed perfect, combining Tom’s food industry skills with the couple’s passion for chocolate. The vision and scope of their retirement plans changed significantly after a trip to a cocoa farmers’ co-op in Ghana in the summer of 2003. 

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Valentine’s Day Top Organic Chocolate Picks

Since I have to be very careful with how much chocolate I eat these days – I am very picky when it comes to chocolate!  Here are few of my favorites since some are great as wedding favors and one, in particular, is great for Valentine’s Day!

1st – Lake Champlain Chocolates – One of the 1st I ever tried!  Loved them – They have some great packaging for favors as well!

One of my friends gave me the Vosges Organic Dominican Republic (DR) Chocolate Bar!  Obviously I dig it because my husband is from the DR, but also because his family owns a cacao farm!  I have actual tasted a cacao while in it’s fruit/nut form direct from the tree in both the DR and Nicaragua (amazing and not what you expect really).  The process of making chocolate is a strange one (not sure how they figured it out), but one that I am so grateful I learned about.  Vosges has some of the greatest chocolates in the world and they have quite a green mission statement – which you can read here.

Possibly the most ridiculously rich and most expensive natural organic chocolates that I have ever tasted are from Richart. It is a French company that says nothing about being organic or going green on their website.  However, I have visited 2 of their stores and have just never wanted to leave.  The idea of going to a chocolate store and comparing it to an experience of being at a museum is probably preposterous to you.  However – to me, when I eat chocolate – it is an experience.  I can taste the nuances in each type of chocolate I eat.  Richart is probably the most fascinating chocolate I have ever tasted in my life.  These are the chocolates that you give on Valentine’s Day!

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Vegan Dark Chocolates Wei of Chocolate

Apparently my distaste for Rochester winters has been, well, apparent. I recently got an email from Lisa Reinhardt, a University of Rochester grad, telling me that she sympathized about Rochester winters.

Fortunately for the sake of the blog, she was also emailing to tell me that she was the owner of Wei of Chocolate, a chocolate company that makes organic, vegan, and Fair Trade chocolates, and would I like to try some free samples, two of which would be chili chocolate? Yes, please!

I got a bag of 6 dark chocolates with very (for lack of a better word) yoga-y names and claims to bring you warmth, insight, joy, etc. According to the company website, Wei of Chocolate will help you “take your experience of chocolate to a whole new level by experiencing the finest quality organic chocolate, infused with intentional blends of deliciously complex flavors designed to balance body and mind.”

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Kallari Chocolate Taste Review

Today’s Tried and True Green Product Review spotlights Kallari Chocolate Company.  Many thanks to Carol for providing us with complimentary samples of Kallari’s 70%, 75% and 85% cacao content bars for our much anticipated taste test.

This is a story of extraordinary taste and solid sustainability… and I think I just discovered a new bff… If love is a drug, let mine be chocolate — Kallari Chocolate, a producer of single-source organic chocolate that’s unlike any other –not only in terms of taste, but also its triple bottom line — people, planet and profit.
 
taste 

You know how some chocolate can give you “cotton mouth,” whereby the chocolate seems to suck all the moisture out of your mouth and you need to immediately gulp down some water after swallowing?  Not so with Kallari.

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Coco de Mer Make Statement with Organic Luxury Chocolates and Candles

With the chocolate-giving season coming up, I suppose it’s appropriate that we’re talking a lot about chocolate this week!

I had wanted to write about Coco de Mer last year when I had a chance to taste it before it came out. Even though I’m not really a huge consumer of sweets, it was the combination of great packaging and (of course) taste that made it memorable.

These handmade, organic chocolates are the result of a lot of effort condensed into five small pieces. Each $35 set comes stylishly packed in an extremely high-quality, surprisingly heavy, box with great design. Of course, five pieces for two people means that there may be a little skirmish over the last one!

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Thinking About Starting a TRU Chocolate Business? What You Should Know First

Every dream is possible with hard work and determination. Here is a very interesting report on how to make money with TRU Chocolate.

Tru Chocolate is a network marketing company that offers healthy chocolate and furthermore an opportunity to grow your own Tru Chocolate business. Are you thinking about joining this network marketing company? Are you sceptical and are you having doubts whether this actually works or if it is just a scam?

The failure rate is very high in this industry, actually 95-97 %, and the same goes for Tru Chocolate. But with that said – there are still people who are succeeding and doing very well. But let’s try and take a look at the pros and cons and get to a conclusion, whether it IS possible to succeed with Tru Chocolate or if it’s just a scam.

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Something Different About The Grenada Chocolate Company

Now here is one chocolate company understanding meaning... 

Grenada is known as the spice island and holds second place in producing nutmeg and supplies approximately one–third of the world’s demand. It is possible to get up close and personal with the harvesting and processing of this spice through a visit to the Gouyave Nutmeg Processing Station, which is the largest processing factory on the island.

The Grenada Chocolate Company was founded by Mott Green, and it is a cooperative owned by its 10 workers. This “tree to bar” chocolate company grows, ferments, roasts, and produces organic chocolate bars. Green has revolutionized the process of making chocolate by integrating the cocoa farmers into the production. Produced in small batches, the beans are grown organically in Grenada, the organic sugar is harvested in Paraguay, the organic vanilla beans come from Costa Rica, and organic soy lecithin is used as an emulsifier..

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Using Chocolate for Fitness Action Plan

Isn’t chocolate wonderful? Aren’t January diets a nightmare? Well yes actually – to both. Nevertheless both are as important as the other. Your diet is essential. You want to get yourself fit and lean in preparation for the summer and after the excesses of winter you are felling a little bit over fed and under exercised. Nevertheless that shouldn’t mean you have to miss out on the occasional indulgence – should it? Well actually no it shouldn’t. Sweet foods and in particular chocolate can fit into a well balanced diet and can even be part of a fitness strategy.

Chocolate has been utilised as a fantastic resource of energy for a number of years. Sportsmen and women allow themselves the occasional bar of chocolate as part of their diet and army rations have almost always included a large bar of chocolate. There has been a great deal of research that has concluded that certain types of chocolate are good for you. In particular chocolate that contains high levels of cocoa is considered to be the healthiest type. Chocolate with a cocoa content above 70% has been recognised as offering a number of benefits. For starters it offers a number of nutrients that can be sparse in other foods for example iron, calcium, potassium, and vitamins A, B1, C, D and E and most significantly magnesium.

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Gazebo Adds Organic Chocolates

Gazebo, the classy lobby lounge at the Al Bustan Rotana Dubai takes an interesting step towards offering the best products to its guests as it showcases a wide selection of organic products starting this month.

The hotel’s guests can now go for the healthier option and choose among an extensive array of organic items for sale which include loose and herbal tea, chocolates, cookies, jams, honey, Balsamic vinegar and pure olive oil.

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Source: Eye Of Dubai

Introducing Salazon Chocolate, First Salt-infused Chocolate Brand

A rich dark chocolate flecked with natural sea salt, Salazon's bars seize on the growing sweet-and-savory trend by introducing an organic line devoted to the concept. The first salt-infused chocolate brand offers three equally delicious flavors—dark chocolate, dark chocolate with organic turbinado cane sugar and dark chocolate with organic cracked black pepper.

With a smooth texture and a dark chocolate that tastes slightly sweeter than most (we're guessing it's about 60%) , the salt balances the flavors perfectly, like an exclamation point hitting your tongue as the chocolate melts in your mouth. Pleasingly spiced, the black pepper chocolate adds a light lingering kick and disappeared first in our office. A close second in popularity, the addition of turbinado sugar (a less processed and therefore larger crystal) makes for a pleasing crunch.

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Best Organic Chocolates Clif Builder's Bar, Protein Bar, Chocolate Mint, 2.4-Ounce Bars

• Entirely natural protein bar
• Packed with 20 grams of protein from soy and nuts
• No transfats or partially hydrogenated oils
• Low glycemic food
• Delivers indulgent taste naturally with 32-35 percent organic ingredients

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