Triple Fat Cacao Powder

Name: Triple Fat Cacao Powder
Brand: Ora Cacao
SKU: 850062126480
Price: 35.00 CAD
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Have Cacao Questions?

The truth is, we used to bash cacao powder. Most cacao powder is highly processed and stripped of naturally occurring fats, yet marketed as a superfood. It’s usually made from lowest quality cacao beans, and it isn’t traceable to the farmer, so you actually can’t know the environmental and labor practices.

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Then we found this serious upgrade. A direct trade cacao powder from premium beans with 30% naturally occurring fat, which is three times the fat content of regular cacao powder. This is so important because the fat is essential for delivering the health benefits of cacao.

Why You'll Love This

It's as if the ho-hum bag of cacao powder in your pantry metamorphosed into the highest quality, most decadent, rich, ethically sourced cacao powder imaginable.

Ingredients + Nutrition Facts

Ingredients: Organic cacao powder. That's all! No sweeteners.

Cacao Sourcing Standard

This organic cacao powder is direct trade and traceable to 200 individual farmers from a regenerative agroforestry project outside of Cusco, Peru.

Many of the farms and the association are run by indigenous Koribeni and Kiteni women, who put their love and care into the stewardship of this cacao and the Amazon it calls home.

How To Use

Add this fluffy cacao powder in heaps into your smoothies, use for baking in your favorite recipes, heat on the stovetop with non-dairy milk for hot cocoa, etc.

Enjoy your upgraded cacao powder adventures!

Why This Is Not Ceremonial Grade Cacao

To be clear, cacao powder is not ceremonial grade cacao, even though this has excellent sourcing. The key difference is ceremonial grade cacao is a whole food, without anything added or removed, and minimally processed the whole way through with the intention of being shared as a medicine.

Cacao powder by contrast goes through processing to separate the cacao powder and butter. This cacao powder retains far more natural fat than most cacao powders, with 28-30% fat remaining as opposed to 10-12%. It’s basically the most fat you can keep in the cacao and have it be a powder, which makes a major upgrade for delicious baking, smoothies, etc.

Certifications & Lab Test Results

1. Organic & Regenerative - all of our cacao is certified organic by Organic Certifiers. We only source from farms practicing regenerative agroforestry.

2. Heavy Metals - we lab test all of our cacao. You can see our test results here.

Ethical Trade Regenerative Agroforestry USDA Organic Unsweetened Third Party Lab Tested Metals Safe High in Flavonoids Vegan & Keto GMO-Free & Soy-Free

What Makes Our Cacao Powder So Good

1) Good Fats
With 3x the amount of beneficial fat than regular cacao powder, the antioxidants and minerals in the cacao are actually bioavailable.

2) Traceable to the Farm
Almost all cacao powder, even organic and Fair Trade, can't be traced back to the farm. Our direct trade cacao from Peru has a positive impact on the farming community where it's grown.

3) Not Alkalized or Chemically Treated
Unlike most cacao powder, ours is less processed, the beans are simply ground and pressed, no chemical treatments.

Cacao Powder is not Ceremonial Cacao, Here's Why...

Ceremonial Cacao is made from whole cacao beans, minimally processed (keeping the extraordinary health benefits and the spirit of cacao intact), and crafted intentionally for ceremonial use. If you grind down roasted cacao beans, it turns into liquid chocolate (not powder)- which we then cool into the discs that you receive. (Learn how ceremonial cacao is made).

Cacao Powder also comes from cacao beans but is processed to separate out the cocoa butter. The remaining material is then hammered into a powder. If you simply blend cacao powder with hot water, it's not going to taste very good, compared to the nourishing, energizing beverage of ceremonial cacao.

Most cacao powder is typically made from secondary or tertiary quality cacao that is not traceable to the farm and processed at high temperatures to mask defects and create uniformity. It's then marketed as a superfood, even though it lacks the naturally occurring cocoa butter which is what makes any health benefits bioavailable.

Like we said, we used to bash cacao powder for these reasons. Yet most of us, still have cacao powder in our pantry for baking, smoothies, etc. So when we found this cacao powder with direct sourcing, high quality beans, and triple the natural occurring fat, we wanted to give you the opportunity to upgrade your pantry.

Journey with Us to Peru...

March - July
Peak Harvest Time

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Metric Tons Purchased Since

200
Organic Farmers

740
Acres of cacao

Chuncho cacao growing on this regenerative, organic farming project outside of Cusco, Peru.

A few of the cacao farmers at the fermentation center.

The fermentation center where the beans are fermented and dried after harvest.

This cacao is grown by the Koribeni and Kiteni indigenous communities of the Machiguega people. They farm native Chuncho cacao in a traditional manner, with utmost respect to mother earth and their Amazonian surroundings.

About a 6 hour drive northwest of Cusco, the Machiguenga have inhabited their lands for thousands of years and speak their own language, called Machiguenga (though with many different dialects depending on the area you’re in). They were known specifically as the suppliers of amazonian products to the Incas.

The farmers in this region have about 1.5 hectars of land per family, producing about 600 kg per year of cacao. The farmers and farming association are managed mainly by the women of these Koribeni and Kiteni communities.

Their respect for the earth and the energy of the Amazon carries through in this rich cacao powder.

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Michael W.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Rich and flavorful!
This is the finest coca powder I have tasted,it’s very good and I have used it for my favorite cookies and chocolate drinks!
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Answers to Frequent Health Questions

What are the Nutrition Facts?

Is Your Cacao Tested for Heavy Metals?

Yes! We take heavy metals in cacao very seriously and have been testing long before the recent media attention on the topic.

All of our cacao has no detectable levels of lead. Lead is a post harvest contaminant that is introduced onto cacao beans through air and soils pollution. Since we source from remote and pristine regions with exacting standards, we have never had any presence of lead in our cacao tests.

All of our cacao also tests well below the legal limits for cadmium. Cadmium is present in many soils and impacts much of the food that we eat. Even if you were to consume cacao daily and it had the legal limit of cadmium in it, experts estimate that is would contribute at most 10% of your daily cadmium intake that comes from other grains and vegetables.

We've been talking with people daily to assure them that they will not die from heavy metals poisoning because of their love of chocolate. We strongly believe big chocolate needs to be held accountable for poor quality of their products. We're also disappointed that a lot of the recent media didn't contextualize the many cadmium sources people have in their diets (not just cacao), and that there are very large factors of safety that are used to determine the legal limits.

Here's a good third party perspective on the topic: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/despite-spooky-consumer-reports-testing-metals-in-chocolates-arent-scary/

Is Cacao A Stiumulant?

We’ve tested our cacao and it has 36 mg of caffeine per 1 oz serving, or about 1/3 of what a regular cup of coffee has. It sounds like a lot, but 1mg of caffeine in cacao is not equivalent to 1mg of caffeine in coffee, because cacao has many other compounds that balance and down-regulate the caffeine.

The primarily stimulant molecule in cacao is actually theobromine. Ora Cacao has 212mg theobromine per 1oz serving. Theobromine is a mild cardiac stimulant, and differs molecularly from caffeine which is a nervous system stimulant. Theobromine gives a long lasting, gentle, embodied energy without any sort of jitters or crash, even for sensitive people. Overall, theobromine is only about one quarter as stimulating as caffeine, and it has a much longer half life in the liver, meaning that it's effect on the body is softer and longer for sustained energy.

Theobromine is also a vasodilator (it relaxes blood vessels), so it has a neutral effect on blood pressure. The improved circulation from cacao is excellent for cardiac health, and improves absorption of the nutrients in cacao and superfoods that it is paired with.

Ceremonial cacao is a great coffee replacement because it offers a grounded energy boost without the jitters and crash. You can fully or partially substitute your cup of coffee with a cup of cacao. If you are new to cacao we recommend drinking it before 2pm so that the stimulant effect has time to clear before you need to sleep.

What Minerals Does Cacao Have?

Consuming cacao can replenish minerals vital to our body. Magnesium is chronically deficient in the majority of western diets, and cacao is the highest naturally occurring source. Magnesium is used in all key brain functions, especially memory and concentration. It is also beneficial for the function of the heart, acting to relax blood vessels and decrease strain. Besides magnesium, cacao is also the highest naturally occurring source of chromium, and also high in copper, calcium, manganese, zinc, sulfur, iron, and phosphorus.

Does higher fat content make this unhealthy?

If you're concerned about saturated fat from a cardiac health perspective, cacao is actually considered very beneficial for cardiac health despite the "high" level of saturated fat.

That's because there are actually many kinds of saturated fat. Stearic acid is more than half of the saturated fat in cacao, and it doesn't raise LDL cholesterol at all, rather it is converted in the liver to oleic acid, a heart-healthy, monounsaturated fat. Most of the unsaturated fat in cacao is also oleic acid specifically.

Polyphenols in cacao also protect against cholesterol causing plague buildup in arteries. There's been studies done showing that participants getting the majority of their fat from dark chocolate don't get elevated cholesterol levels, yet the same study with milk fats resulted in elevated cholesterol. Hope that's shed's more light on an oversimplified nutrition facts panel!

What Makes This Different From Other Cacao Powders?

Directly sourced from regenerative, organic cacao farms outside of Cusco, Peru
High good fat content means the health benefits of the cacao powder (minerals, theobromine, flavonols, etc.) are more bioavalable
Highest quality cacao beans - not from the commodity cacao market
Rich flavor and higher good fat content makes it amazing for baking, smoothies, etc.