El Cuador

Fine Dark Chocolate Recipe 70%

The fine flavoured cocoa comes from the El Cuador plantation in Ecuador.

Fine flavoured cocoa from Ecuador

In Ecuador over 100,000 families make their living by cultivating cacao. Ecuador is the largest cocoa-producing region in the world. Cocoa is grown in the whole country.

Cooperating with the government and other institutions active in the country, we support the cultivation of the singular fine flavoured Ecuadorian cocoa: Arriba. This pure, unblended fine flavoured cocoa gives our El Cuador Plantagenschokolade its unique flavour.

Most cocoa farmers in Ecuador farm small plantations of 2 to 8 acres. We help cooperatives formed by smallholders in the areas of cultivation, fermenting, drying, storing and marketing.

On an international workshop in Guayaquil from August 20 to 25, 2007 we lobbied for a decree stating that the aromatic Arriba cocoa may not be mixed with inferior grade varieties of cocoa. The Ecuadorian government has meanwhile issued this decree.

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