Camino Verde Ecuador | 70% Cacao Bar

Sweet, round, stone fruit, nutty, malted milk balls

Country of Origin: Ecuador
Region: Duran, near Guayaquil
Farm: Camino Verde
Producer: Vicente Norero

Camino Verde is a celebrated and trusted farm and fermentary in Duran, Ecuador, just across the river from Guayaquil. As an microbiologist and expert in fermentation, Vicente Norero began with his own estate farm’s pods, and over time expanded to build community projects supporting smallholder farmers in nearby regions: Esmeraldas in the northernmost part of Ecuador, and south central Los Rios. Vicente buys fine flavor beans raw in whole fruit or baba, arranging transportation to skillfully control the entire process of fermentation and drying for consistent quality. The Camino Verde process yields a cacao which is innately sweet with round fruits, deep brownie-like sweetness, malt balls, and nutty undertones.

Ingredients:
Cacao, cane sugar

A Note on Allergens and Additives:
We stone grind our traceable cacao in machines also making delicious things from tree nuts. Apart from that, we do not use emulsifiers like lecithins, or other additives like vanilla.

When we add sugar, it is intentional. We only use traceable, raw, organically and regeneratively grown cane sugar. We add sugar for the purpose of attenuating the innate power of cacao to meet our limited palates, increasing our receptivity to the delight in every morsel.