Cacao beans with skins, certified organic, raw
Important announcements from Shazzie
Is it really organic?
"Recently, there has been an influx of inferior
superfoods into the UK. When buying superfoods on the Internet or in shops,
ensure you are buying organically certified (if it says organic, it should
be accompanied by the details of the certifying body (OF&G or Soil
Association, for example). If it doesn't say who's certified it, ask the
seller for their certificate. For your protection, it's illegal to sell
uncertified products as organic."
Price matching
"If you find certified organic superfoods of a similar
quality to ours at a cheaper price, we will attempt to price match this
item. Please ring Denise or Angel on 08700 113 119 for a price match."
With love
Important announcements from Shazzie
Is it really organic?
"Recently, there has been an influx of inferior
superfoods into the UK. When buying superfoods on the Internet or in shops,
ensure you are buying organically certified (if it says organic, it should
be accompanied by the details of the certifying body (OF&G or Soil
Association, for example). If it doesn't say who's certified it, ask the
seller for their certificate. For your protection, it's illegal to sell
uncertified products as organic."
Type of cacao bean
"Our cacao beans come from fairly traded sources, and are of the criollo variety.
Criollo beans are recognised as the best beans in the world for flavour, consistency and nutrients. If you find
cheaper beans elsewhere, you may not get the same quality that you are used to when you buy from
us."
Price matching
"If you find certified organic superfoods of a similar
quality to ours at a cheaper price, we will attempt to price match this
item. Please ring Denise or Angel on 08700 113 119 for a price match."
With love
Still in its skin to retain as many nutrients as possible for you, cacao beans are very easy to crack and then use in smoothies and other delights. You can eat them
straight or in a trail mix. Try sprinkling on your breakfast. Add to a touch of agave
nectar or another
sweetening agent and chew. Freeze cacao beans with sweeteners (agave nectar is
fantastic). Eat cold. Blend cacao beans into herbal teas with the Peruvian ecstatic food maca. Crush cacao beans with a pestle and mortar and add to raw ice creams for
the best chocolate chips in the world. Create a raw chocolate bar. Blend the following raw ingredients together:
cacao beans, agave nectar, carob powder, maca, coconut oil, cacao butter, angstrom
calcium, and cashews. Pour into a mould and
freeze. Eat cold and experience
the truth about the food of the gods!
Cacao is great fun for everyone -- especially kids!
Chocolate saves the planet
In our book, Naked
Chocolate, David Wolfe and Shazzie talk about chocolate saving the planet. This is a simple truth:
Chocolate trees can’t be cultivated outside of a forest environment. So as more chocolate consumed,
more trees of all types have to be planted. The chocolate gods are very clever, aren’t they?
Slave free
“Raw Britannia, Britannia’s raw chocolates saves, Britons never again need eat chocolate
from slaves.”
We take the energetic properties of food very seriously. If you eat food grown with the slave vibe (like
chocolate slaves or even animals in captivity slaves) then you’ll take on that vibe and will feel like a
slave in your life. Free yourself and the planet by only choosing slave-free chocolate. There’s no excuse to
eat chocolate -- to gain such mouthwatering pleasure -- at the expense of children and adults forced to harvest the
beans for you. Our cacao and ecstatic foods all come from ethically traded companies. They are covered by a
federation that protects everyone involved in the process. Our chocolate continually improves the quality of life
for those who grow it, and we get such great feedback from our suppliers about community projects and
initiatives.
The raw chocolate revolution
It all began in May 2003. Shazzie was in Maui with her
good friend David Wolfe, adding raw cacao beans to their smoothies. Cacao beans are the nut of the chocolate tree
that all chocolate is made from. Then she just ate a cacao bean. Her life changed in that moment. Life since has
been pure magic. She realised the cacao gods had chosen her as a messenger to bring real chocolate into the
consciousness of the western world. What a blessing. David and Shazzie were compelled to write Naked Chocolate in 2005,
the world’s only book dedicated to raw chocolate and its ecstatic food friends. Shazzie's company imports,
wholesales and retails raw organic chocolate products (cacao nibs, beans, butter, liquor and powder) and its
ecstatic food friends (maca, goji berries, mesquite, lucuma, purple corn and more) so everyone can embrace the gods
and goddesses within them. Since starting The Raw Chocolate Revolution
we’ve noticed that once people taste raw chocolate their lives are changed for ever. Raw chocolate alters
your consciousness immediately. It opens up channels within you to allow energy and information in at a lightning
speed. It enables you to live fully in your flow. It causes massive shifts in all parts of your life. It allows you
to meet your divine self. It causes you to live your highest truth. It helps you heal the planet as well as your
body.
Above all, raw chocolate makes you feel LOVE.
What is Cacao?
Cacao is the seed of a fruit of an Amazonian tree that was brought to Central America during or before the time
of the Olmecs. Cacao beans were so revered by the Mayans and Aztecs that they used them as money.
In 1753 Carl von Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish scientist, thought that cacao was so important that he named
the genus and species of this tree himself. He named this tree: Theobroma cacao, which literally means “cacao, the
food of the gods.” As we approach 2012, and the patriarchal systems are crumbling, we decided to rename it
"Cacao, food of the goddess".
Cacao beans contain no sugar and between 12% and 50% fat depending on variety and growth conditions. Our cacao
beans contain around 40% fat content (low compared to other nuts). There is no evidence to implicate cacao bean
consumption with obesity.
Raw cacao is contains hundreds of chemicals, is high in magnesium, iron, chromium, tryptophan, and
antioxidants. It also contains PEA and anandamide.
Contrary to popular opinion, cacao is a poor source of caffeine. A typical sample of cacao nibs or cacao beans
will yield anywhere from zero caffeine to 1,000 parts per million of caffeine (less than 1/20th of the caffeine
present in coffee). In February 2008, Dr Gabriel Cousens discovered in clinical tests on healthy people that cacao
does not elevate blood sugar in the same way as a caffeine containing food or beverage. In fact, Dr Cousens found
that cacao has less of an effect on blood sugar than nearly any other food.
Sulphur and Magnesium
Cacao is remarkably rich in sulfur and magnesium. Cacao seems to be the number one source of magnesium of any
food. This is probably the primary reason women crave chocolate during their period. Magnesium is associated with
balanced brain chemistry, strong bones, and happiness. Magnesium is the most deficient major mineral on the
Standard UK Diet (SUKD); over 80% of us are chronically deficient in Magnesium!
“Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really
good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has
always been and will always be Nature’s #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept
secret in the entire history of food.”
— David Wolfe, co-author of Naked Chocolate: The Astonishing
Truth About The World’s Greatest Food.
Cacao is high in the beauty mineral sulphur. Sulfur is associated with strong nails, hair, beautiful, shiny
skin, and a clean liver and pancreas.
MAO Inhibitors
Cacao seems to diminish appetite, probably due to its monoamine oxidase enzyme inhibitors (MAO inhibitors) -
these are different from digestive enzyme inhibitors found in most nuts and seeds. These rare MAO inhibitors
actually produce favorable results when consumed by allowing more serotonin and other neurotransmitters to
circulate in the brain. According to Dr Gabriel Cousens, MAO inhibitors facilitate youthening and rejuvenation.
Phenylethylamine (PEA)
Phenylethylamine (PEA) is found in chocolate. PEA is an adrenal-related chemical that is also created within the
brain and released when we are in love. This is one of the reasons why love and chocolate have a deep correlation.
PEA also plays a role in increasing focus and alertness.
Anandamide (the bliss chemical)
A neurotransmitter called anandamide, has been isolated in cacao. Anandamide is also produced naturally in the
brain. Anandamide is known as the bliss chemical because it is released while we are feeling great. Cacao contains
enzyme inhibitors that decrease our bodies’ ability to breakdown anandamide. This means that natural anandamide
and/or cacao anandamide may stick around longer, making us feel good longer, when we eat cacao.
Allergies?
A recent study showed that only one out of 500 people who thought they were allergic to chocolate actually
tested positive. Allergies to chocolate are quite rare. It is typically the case that the person is in fact
allergic to milk and dairy products.
Why raw chocolate
What do you have for breakfast?" people often ask Shazzie, our founder and creator of these chocolate bars.
"Chocolate!" she replies. And she gives the same answer for many of her meals and snacks. To those who
haven't yet joined The Raw Chocolate
Revolution, this reply may seem unhealthy. They may think Shazzie is obese or addicted to sugar. Yet,
she’s healthy in the extreme. She’s a normal weight, and she hasn’t eaten refined sugar in over
seven years. This is because the chocolate she eats is raw, vegan, free from refined sugar, loaded with ecstatic
foods (chocolate being the main one!), and fully life-giving.
Quality assurance
We’ve worked really hard to find good raw cacao beans of a consistent nature to bring to the UK wholefood
market. These beans do not have a microbe count, and we’ve performed experiments to prove this to ourselves. We
were selling the same variety as Nature’s First Law in the USA for a long time, but we couldn’t bring them to the
UK in sufficient quantities or at the right price. It took us several months to find a variety that we consider is
as good and as clean as their beans. Now we’ve found them, we’re very happy to share them with you. Our beans are
raw, organically certified, and handled with love all the way from the growers through us and to your
customers.
Certificate of analysis
Yearly, we recieve a certificate of analysis from our organic cacao growers.
This covers all our cacao products: liquor,
nibs, powder,
beans and butter.
It says many things, yet the most interesting part is the microbiological
analysis. This is the bit that shows to us our chocolate products are safe
for human consumption without being cooked. Staphylococus aureus, pseudomonas,
aeruginoses, escherichila coli and salmonella are all tested as 100% absent
from all our raw chocolate products.
Refrigeration of these cacao beans is not required. Cacao beans keep well in
cool, dry conditions.
Shazzie's pregnant smoothie
This is Shazzie's most satiating
pregnancy smoothie of all. She says it makes her and Tiny feel totally
cosmic all morning long.
Blend it all up in a jug or Vita-Prep,
and drink. It should satiate you for hours.
 Toby roamed
Oooh, this is so much like that triangular chocolate that we all love. Er, except this one's got masses of brain
food in it.
Grind the cacao beans into a fine powder. Grind the cashew nuts into a fine powder. Grate the white cacao butter
and add to a bowl. Pour some warm water into another bowl and sit the bowl with the butter in into this bowl. Don't
get water into your cacao butter. Wait until the butter has melted, and then add the other ingredients. Stir very
well and then pour it into any pretty moulds.
Important legal note: Though we are happy to provide
products and services which will help you to improve your health and well being, we do not 'treat', or aim to 'cure' any disease. Under UK law only a medical doctor may 'treat' illness and disease with a medical origin. The information in this web page is for information purposes only.
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