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Cacao vs cocoa
Cacao bean comes from the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). Cacao pods – large football-sized fruits – grow off the trunk and limbs of the cacao tree. The beans are inside the pods.

To make cocoa, cacao beans are harvested, fermented, dried, cleaned and roasted, after which they are often referred to as "cocoa". In the United States, cacao is often referred to simply as cocoa, which can be confusing.

Coconut sugar
• an alternative to brown sugar in any recipe, or to cane sugar in tea and coffee. • very good source of potassium, magnesium, zinc and iron and contains vitamins B1, B2, B3 and B6. • has twice the iron, four times the magnesium and more than 10 times the zinc compared to brown sugar.
• comes from smallholder farmers in Boyolali, the main island of Java, Indonesia.
• all money from harvesting and primary processing stays within the local community.
• farmers climb coconut palms and collect the sugar blossom nectar by gently slicing the flower. The nectar is then transferred into kettles. The evaporation process lowers the moisture content of the nectar before it is allowed to set into a solid nectar "brick". After the nectar has cooled and solidified it's then ground into granules.

 

 

PRODUCTS

KEY BD=BIODYNAMIC O=ORGANIC N=NOT ORGANIC GF=GLUTEN-FREE
FT=FAIR TRADE

  

SWEET THINGS

  • Bibba Baking biscuits: (all O, sugar-free, egg-free), dark (vegan), date+ginger (GF, vegan), apricot+coconut (GF, vegan),
  • Bibba Baking cakes: (all O, GF, sugar-free, dairy-free) dark chocolate+ almond (no added fat), apricot+almond (no added fat), carrot+sultana
  • Bibba Baking muffins: (all O, sugar-free, dairy-free) banana+date (GF, vegan), orange+currant (wheat-free), spelt winter spice
  • Chocolate stars – banana (vegan), apricot (vegan), fig+ginger (O)
  • Coconut sugar (O) unfiltered, unbleached and preservative-free.
  • Date+Almond Rolls (vegan) (O)
  • Date+Coconut Rolls (vegan) (O)
  • Drinking chocolate made from Loving Earth’s raw dark chocolate shavings, cacao powder and rapadura sugar (O) (FT
  • Inana's date cakes (vegan) (N)
  • Inana's halva gems (vegan) (N) (GF)
  • Licorice pieces, spelt (vegan) (O) in the fridge in warmer months
  • Licorice pieces, wheat (vegan) (O) in the fridge in warmer months
  • Little Gems, (O) (FT) milk chocolate buttons covered in fruity crisp shells (similar to baby smarties). Contains: cane sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa paste, whey powder, emulsifier (lecithin)*, corn syrup, rice starch, thickener (gummi arabicum)*, colouring: fruit+plant extracts (orange, passionfruit, mango, Chinese goldberry (gardenia), beet, elderberry)*, coatings: (beeswax, carnauba wax)* *NOT ORGANIC
  • Living Foods raw bars (vegan) (O) Five flavours – raw cacao, apricot+ goji, fig+almond, green energy and green cacao
  • Loving Earth Raw Chocolate and Coconut Butter (O) (FT)
  • Kitz fig and macadamia nut chunks, raw, vegan with some O ingredients, from Kitz Living Foods
  • Stevia (O)
  • Wild nut and fruit mix, from Conscious Choice (O) Ingredients: soaked cashews, almonds, sunflower seeds, pepitas, goji berries, persian figs
  • Superfood Balls, raw (O) made locally. Ingredients: goji berries, cacao nibs, chlorella, spirulina, pepitas, sunflower seeds, mixed raw nuts, sesame seeds, sultanas, cranberries, desiccated coconut, raw honey
  • Trail mix (regal raisins, sultanas, cashew pieces, almonds, pepitas, apple wedges) (O)
  • Wild Hibsicus Flowers in Syrup. When added to champagne, lemonade or soda, the flowers – which are edible and have a raspberry-rhubarb flavour – open up and make the liquid go pink. Put the flower and a bit of syrup in a glass first, then add the liquid.

Sweeteners

  • Apple juice concentrate (2L) (bulk order only)
  • Agave, raw (O) MORE INFO
  • Amazake (brown rice-based sweetener)
  • Barley Malt (O)
  • Honey – type varies, can include Silky Oak (from grevillia country, floral undertones), Salvation Jane (milder, sweeter) (O), Spotted Gum (O), Hawkesbury Ironbark (O) and Yellowbox (O)
    These honeys are supplied by the Malfroys, migratory beekeepers, who move their hives in search of the best honey flow for their bees. They only sell what their bees produce, which is simply extracted, settled and then poured into a drum. The honey is not overheated. MORE INFO
  • Honeycomb, Salvation Jane, (uncertified O)
  • Icing sugar (O) from New Zealand. Ingredients: golden cane sugar and tapioca starch
  • Lucuma powder (O) MORE INFO
  • Manuka honey, UMF 30+, in 1kg tubs, Tasmanian MORE ON UMF
  • Maple syrup (O), "A" grade
  • Mesquite meal (O)
  • Pear juice concentrate (2L) (bulk order only)
  • Rapadura sugar – evaporated cane sugar from Colombia (O)
  • Raw sugar (O)
  • Rice syrup (O)
  • Stevia (O)
  • Yakon syrup (O) MORE INFO

Chocolate

  • Cacao beans, raw (O) (priced per 100g)
  • Cacao powder, raw (O)
  • Cacao butter, raw (O)
  • Carmel Valley chocolate spirulina (vegan)
  • Cocolo chocolate bars – milk, dark orange, hazelnut, dark mint, dark almond, white almond (all O) (fair trade)
  • Dark chocolate-coated almonds (O) (vegan)
  • Dark chocolate-coated cherries (O) (vegan)
  • Dark chocolate-coated coffee beans (O) (vegan)
  • Dark chocolate-coated ginger (O) (vegan)
  • Dark chocolate-coated goji berries (O) (vegan)
  • Dark chocolate-coated licorice (O) (vegan)
  • Dark chocolate-coated macadamia nuts (O) (vegan)
  • Drinking chocolate (O) (FT) made from Loving Earth’s raw dark chocolate shavings, cacao powder and rapadura sugar
  • Loving Earth bulk dark chocolate, raw (O) (vegan) (fair trade) – plain, crunchy mint, goji+camu camu, lucuma+maca light, activated almond+purple corn, sour cherry) (priced per 100g) Loving Earth pays more than 15% above the FT price for the cacao it buys from an indigenous co-op in Peru.
  • Milk chocolate-coated almonds (O)
  • Milk chocolate-coated cherries (O)
  • Milk chocolate coated coffee beans (O)
  • Milk chocolate coated ginger (O)
  • Milk chocolate-coated licorice (O)
  • Milk chocolated coated macadamia nuts (O)
  • Milk chocolate coated sultanas (O)
  • Rapunzel bulk chocolate chunks: dark (70% cocoa)(vegan), milk, white (all O) (fair trade)

Carob

  • Carmel Valley carobs (carob spirulina, carob mint spirulina, coconut spirulina, carob ginger surprise) (non-dairy, most without honey). High pecentage organic ingredients.
  • Carob powder (O)

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