Organic Dark Chocolate (71%), The Grenada Chocolate Company

Imported from an ethical, cooperative that was recently featured on the BBC’s “Secret Treasures of the Caribbean.” The Grenada Chocolate Company won the Silver Award from The Academy of Chocolate in 2008!   

Five reasons any chocolate lover can’t refuse:

• Locally-grown cocoa beans enable the use of a local fermenting process, which produces the finest and most complex chocolate flavors.
• Even the cocoa butter retains a richer chocolate flavor based on production using a relatively low-pressure cocoa butter press.
• Chocolate is hand-crafted in small batches that preserve freshness.
• Organic cocoa beans, organic raw sugar, and organic vanilla beans (grown biodynamically in Costa Rica) not only eliminate pesticides but also contribute to sustainable farming efforts.
• All chocolate is guaranteed to be free of any nuts, fruit or dairy, even in trace amounts.

If all that weren’t enough, recent studies link dark chocolate with lower stress and healthier metabolism, help with diarrhea, and protection against DNA damage.