The Raw Chocolate Revolution

December 2006, by Shazzie

"What do you have for breakfast?" people often ask me. "Chocolate!" I reply. And I give the same answer for many of my meals and snacks. To those who haven't yet joined The Raw Chocolate Revolution, this reply may seem unhealthy. They may think I'm obese or addicted to sugar. Yet, I'm healthy in the extreme. I'm a normal weight, and I haven't eaten sugar in over seven years. This is because the chocolate I eat is raw, vegan, sugar-free, loaded with superfoods (chocolate being the main one!), and fully life-giving.

Further, I can be all psychic on you and tell you that in 2007 all the major supermarkets, whole food shops and food manufacturers are set to introduce raw chocolate products to the unsuspecting public. You are lucky enough to hear it first, and can join the revolution now. Last year, we predicted the same with the superfood known as goji berries, which are now available in the big supermarkets. How do we know this? Because the trends for health foods are now set by people who walk their talk, by people who look like you want to look, and by people who live like you want to live. Trends are now set by people like myself, and people like you. By reading this, you've just become a revolutionary. Congratulations on changing your life.

First rule of The Raw Chocolate Revolution: you do talk about The Raw Chocolate Revolution. You are a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are not the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are not all part of the same compost pile.

True health seekers have revolted. We got sick of cabbage and carrot salads and were guided and coaxed by the great cacao gods to create The Raw Chocolate Revolution. This in turn created The Superbeing Revolution which has caused us to evolve before our very own eyes. Eating real ancient nutrient-packed health food is about honouring exactly what our bodies need to function correctly so we can do the jobs on this planet that really need doing. There has never been a more crucial time to be part of a revolution, and The Chocolate Revolution is the most fun and apt one around.

Chocolate revolutionaries have superfood nutrition at every meal, with in every snack, with every cup of herbal tea. Why? To reverse the lies and damage of the western lifestyle!

Since before we were born, most of us have been fed substandard foods, we've been brought up on fear, we've been programmed by the telly. Many of us who have an interest in higher vibrational living have eschewed meat and other animal products for a long time. Some of us have dabbled in raw foods, juices, fasting, yoga and meditation. Now, we've been shown something so potent, so powerful, so life-changing, that we want to share it with everyone! And here's the best part: chocolate is part of everyone already! It may be disguised as that unhealthy milky hydrogenated oil sugary substance, but there is chocolate in there, too. Becoming a Raw Chocolate Revolutionary is so easy because everyone already gets chocolate! Everyone understands it! The fact that raw chocolate has seven times the antioxidant power as cooked chocolate is irrelevant to most people, they just like the taste!

Over the past three years, since we started The Raw Chocolate Revolution, we've discovered that once people taste raw chocolate, their lives are changed for ever. Raw chocolate alters your consciousness immediately. It opens up channels within you and allows energy and information in at a lightning speed. It enables you to live fully in your flow. It causes massive changes in all parts of your life. It forces you to live your highest truth and only your highest truth. It helps you heal the planet as well as your body. Above all, raw chocolate tastes amazing!

In May 2004, David Wolfe and myself were in Maui. Our friends, The Coconut Brothers, were peeling raw cacao beans (the bean of the chocolate tree that all chocolate is made from). We were adding this to smoothies. One of The Coconut Brothers asked us: "Have you just eaten one?" We hadn't. We did. Our lives changed in that moment. Everything that has happened since has been pure magic. The cacao gods had chosen us as messengers to bring real chocolate into the consciousness of the western world! What an honour -- we were humbled.

Shortly after, we found some more magic beans in a UK shop owned by our good friend Sky and we went to Amsterdam. For three days we wandered around Amsterdam eating only cacao beans, AFA algae and maca. We declared Amsterdam the capital of raw chocolate, and named a strange old market building with many red doors as the church of our non-denominational chocolate religion. July 14th was forever to be Chocolate Day (as was every other day)! David became The Chocolate Pope and I became the Chocolate Nun (but that's another story). We told the secrets of raw chocolate to everyone who would listen. We introduced people to raw chocolate superfood smoothies, truffles, bars, teas, puddings, chilis, mousses and cakes.

In 2005 we wrote a book called Naked Chocolate, which exposed key information about the chocolate bean in its uncooked form. Since then, raw chocolate has been one of the world's fastest growing health foods. It is now set to hit the big time, baby! Raw chocolate tastes divine, I've invented over 100 recipes for it, many of which are in Naked Chocolate. As it isn't mixed with sugar or dairy, I feel it's a perfect food. Chocolate is so much higher in antioxidants than any other food on the planet, and it makes you feel blissed out, too. We recently secured a limitless supply of raw organically certified chocolate powder, butter and nibs so I'm looking at the world through chocolate tinted glasses. I love what I see!

Progressive scientists and chemical genius folk really get what we're doing, too: "Naked Chocolate is fantastic! I love it very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you a million times." says Dr Patrick Flanagan. He's an inventor and was voted one of America's top 10 scientists at the young age of 17.

Since the advent of Naked Chocolate, The Raw Chocolate Revolution has caused raw chocolate businesses and products to spring up everywhere. I've created six Shazzie's Naked Chocolate bars, all loaded with superfoods, all raw and all vegan. My friend Kate Wood has a shop in Brighton called Raw Magic, which supplies raw fresh chocolate. There are several other companies selling their own versions of raw chocolates in the UK, Europe and the USA. My company has recently secured a deal with one of the UK's leading health food brands to raw chocolate for their new bar which is launching soon. Traditional organic cooked chocolatiers are looking to include raw chocolate in their ranges. There are even raw chocolate training courses. Raw chocolate is the revolution to end all revolutions: participants are paid back a million times for loving chocolate in its natural state by becoming blissed out, loved up superbeings who make huge and immediate shifts in our planet's consciousness and beyond. The point has been tipped, Burger Pawn.

So as I stand here before you today, fellow revolutionaries, I say to you: Join The Raw Chocolate Revolution today by eating some raw chocolate and giving some to a loved one. Create a beautiful chocolate-filled life. Let raw chocolate open your heart and then do only what your heart asks of you.

Go in chocolate peace: Love, evolve, revolve. Then love some more. You are love.

Much love

Chocolate Revolutionary

Certificate of analysis

Yearly, we recieve a certificate of analysis from our organic cacao growers. This covers all our cacao products: 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.

Suggested reading and further information

Naked Chocolate by David Wolfe and Shazzie

Shazzie mentions The Raw Chocolate Revolution live on Channel 5 news, May 16th 2007

Raw chocolate recipes Developed by Shazzie

Raw chocolate in the media Uptown magazine reports on our raw chocolate products, June 2007

Raw chocolate in the media Guardian news report

Raw chocolate in the media Sunday Herald news report

Raw chocolate in the media Part of a superfood article, March 2007, Natural Products Magazine.

Raw chocolate in the industry A look at new natural and organic products, May 2007, Natural Products Magazine.

Raw chocolate and superfoods in the new Whole Foods Hypermarket, London Feature on the new Whole Foods Market, with a focus on our chocolates. I wouldn't eat Raymond Blanc's food if he paid me... 5th June 2007, London Evening Standard

Raw chocolate and superfoods in the industry A look at new natural and organic products, June 2007, Natural Products Magazine.

Cocoa nutrient for 'lethal ills' BBC news report

Chocolate 'helps blood vessels' BBC news report

Chocolate is good for you - official BBC news report

How cocoa beats killer diseases News article

Chocolate Clue To Longevity Nursing News article

Eat To Live: Cocoa, the new life-extender? Consumer Health Daily News article

Why Chocolate is Practically a Health Food Keep the Doctor Away News article

Chocolate compound could hold key to dementia treatment News article

The history of the Hi-Bar The world's first raw chocolate bar, now laid to rest.

Chocoloney Chocolate slavery, in this day and age? Where does your chocolate come from? (Ours is fairly traded and no children are involved.)