Celebrating raw chocolate as one of our most powerful superfoods.
Turn cravings for cooked chocolate into super-nutrition.
Finally we're telling you what you've been wanting to hear your whole lives and deep down knew to be true… CHOCOLATE IS GOOD FOR YOU! In our Chocolate Love evening workshop we will show you how to make healthy choc milkshakes, choc brownies, choc biscuits, choc mousses, choc cakes and more. It’s very decadent and lots of fun. |
Organic Raw Cacao Beans |
There is hope for chocoholics everywhere! you can turn guilt, addictions and misconceptions into super-nutrition! Ever wished you could live forever on desserts?
The key to chocolate's super qualities seems to be eating it in it's raw, natural state. When cacao beans are excessively heated, melted, processed, chemicalised, and added to dairy products, they lose key nutrient qualities, psychoactive properties, brain nutrition and more.
After all this no wonder people want the real thing! What happened to the original food, the cacao bean? Let us get back to the real food beneath all the layers of cooking, machining and tampering.
The Cacao Bean Chocolate is one of the worlds most well-loved foods. Yet very few have ever had the raw food that all chocolate comes from - cacao beans! All chocolate comes from cacao beans - the seeds of the cacao fruit - which grows on a jungle tree. Botanically, cacao is truly a nut. Cacao beans taste like dark chocolate, because they are dark chocolate! |
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The Healing properties of Raw Cacao
Magnesium
Magnesium is the primarily mineral missing when heart problems occur. Magnesium increases the overall vigor of the heart muscle. This mineral also decreases blood coagulation thus lowering blood pressure and helping the heart pump more effectively. Cacao, of course, is a fantastic food source of heart-supporting magnesium.
Antioxidants
According to research cited in The New York Times, fresh cacao beans are super-rich in antioxidant flavonols. Cacao beans contain 10,000 milligrams (10 grams) per 100 grams of flavonol antioxidants. This is a whopping 10% antioxidant concentration level! This makes cacao one of the richest sources of antioxidants of any food.
Anti-Depressant Properties
Cacao is a great source of serotonin, dopamine, and phenylethylamine, three well-studied neurotransmitters, which help alleviate depression and are associated with feelings of well being.
Cacao contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAO Inhibitors) that improve our mood because they allow serotonin and dopamine to remain in the bloodstream longer without being broken down.
Cacao contains anandamide which delivers blissful feelings.
Cacao also contains B vitamins, which are associated with brain health.
Cacao contains significant quantities of the amino acid tryptophan which is yet another powerful mood-enhancing nutrient.
All this makes cacao a natural Anti-Depressant!
Lose weight, eat chocolate!
Anyone who eats chocolate knows that it diminishes appetite. There is evidence indicating MAOIs also diminish appetite. There is actually no scientific evedince to implicate chocolate consumption with obesity. In fact the reverse seems to be the case. Eating cacao helps one to loose weight by allowing you to eat less
Superfoods Cacao – Beans, Nibs, Powder and Butter
Soaring Free Superfoods is the first to bring raw cacao to South Africa.
We are fortunate to be able to supply you with the highest quality cacao products worldwide.
We believe that a superfood can only be called such when it is grown and processed under the strictest quality control standards and is certified to be organically grown. A food grown with herbicides, pesticides and fungicides in mineral depleted and contaminated soils cannot be called a superfood.
Our range of cacao products are available through selected health shops or directly from our webshop
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How to use Raw Cacao Beans Cacao Beans have a strong dark bitter chocolate flavour. You can eat them whole - plain or dipped The recommended daily intake is 5 to 20 whole beans. |
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How to use Raw Cacao Nibs Cacao Nibs have a strong dark bitter chocolate flavour. Sprinkle them over your morning breakfast for a taste and health boost. They can be ground into a rich dark powder using a coffee grinder to make raw desserts of all kinds. Blend them into your favourite smoothies or and them to a trail/snack mix with Goji berries and raisins. The recommended daily intake is 5 to 20 grams or a small handfull. |
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How to use Raw Cacao Powder Cacao Powder has a strong, rich, dark bitter chocolate flavour. Perfect to make raw chocolate desserts The recommended daily intake is 5 to 20 grams. Some people find cacao very stimulating so adjust consumption according to your experience |
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How to use Raw Cacao Butter Cacao Butter is the good fat or oil content of the Cacao Bean which has been cold pressed out of the bean. It allows one to make hard-set chocolates. You can also use it as an amazing skin moisturiser. |
Why our Cacao equals the world market leaders in quality and certification:
Raw, Organic: This is a 100% raw product that is certified organic by BCS Oko Garantie.
Aromica Variety: Our beans come from the most prized strain of cacao in Ecuador known as Cacao Nacional Arriba Fino de Aroma’ (due to its outstanding aroma). Aromica is a distinct fourth variety of cacao (the other three include: forestero, trinitario and criollo).
Low Microbe Count: Because of the exceptional quality and standards under which these beans are processed, any foreign microbe/bacteria activity is virtually nonexistent on the skin and inner nib. This is an extraordinary feat considering that cacao beans come from a moist and slimy fruit grown in the hot jungle. Due to the high level of quality control our cacao beans may eaten without peeling
Pleasant, Tasty: The unique process used retains the purity, fine aroma, fairly uniform large size, purplish-brown colour, easy peeling (of the beans) and the nutritional impact that nature intended.
High Flavour, No Roasting: Because of the quality of the bean and of our processing, you get to enjoy a rich, raw chocolate flavour and aroma without roasting.
Beware of other cacao available on the world market because they are typically heated, fumigated, conventionally-grown and are contaminated by bacteria and fungus.
Raw chocolate Recipes Raw Cacao Smoothie: Raw Choc Mousse: Melt coconut oil and mix with honey. Mix in Cacao Powder. Real Raw Healthy Chocolates Melt the cacao butter & Coconut oil in a double boiler. Superfood Snack Mix This little combination in a great snack mix and tasty too. Every time you feel the inclination to eat a sugary sweet muffin or a packet of chips, replace it with a handful or 2 of this mix instead. |
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To read more about Raw chocolate you can visit naked-chocolate.com
Chocalate in the media links:
Examining the Properties of Chocolate and Cacao for Health
Why Chocolate is Practically a Health Food
Cocoa loco
Cocoa nutrient for 'lethal ills'
Chocolate 'helps blood vessels'
Chocolate is good for you - official
Cocoa-rich diet may boost thymus antioxidant defences
Dark chocolate flavonoids reduce high blood pressure
Cocoa Officially Lowers Blood Pressure
Processed Cocoa Loses Two-Thirds of Health-Enhancing Alkaloids
Why Chocolate Is Good for Your Heart
Eat More Chocolate for Health
