All chocolate is made from the raw cacao bean! 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."

Cacao beans contain no sugar and between 12% and 50% fat depending on variety and growth conditions. Nature's First Law cacao beans are around 40% fat content (low compared to other nuts). There is no evidence to implicate cacao bean consumption with obesity. Worried about allergies? Allergies to chocolate are quite rare. It is typically the case that the person is in fact allergic to milk, dairy products and chemicals mixed into the production of heat-treated processed chocolate bars.
 

Concentrated nutrients - because raw cacao is concentrated 'raw power', RAW cacao powder has at least 33% more of many of cacao's most vital nutrients! In Raw Cacao Powder, much of the oil is removed, while nearly all of the active nutrients remain. For example...

Normally, one could peel cacao beans before eating them...now Sunfood Nutrition has done it for us! "Cacao Nibs" (or Cacao Pieces) are peeled raw/organic Cacao Beans.  The raw cacao bean is one of nature's most fantastic superfoods due to its wide array of unique properties, many of which are destroyed or corrupted by cooking.

  • Raw, Organic: This is a 100% raw product that is certified organic by Skal International.
  • Aromica Variety: These beans come from the most prized strain of cacao in Ecuador known as Aromica (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. No other cacao bean sources can claim this safety feature.
  • Pleasant, Tasty: The unique process we use retains the purity, fine aroma, fairly uniform large size, purplish-brown color, easy peeling (of the beans) and the nutritional impact that nature intended.
  • High Flavor, No Roasting: Because of the quality of the bean and of our processing, you get to enjoy a rich, raw chocolate flavor and aroma without destroying valuable nutrients via roasting.
  • Low Acid: Our beans have extremely low acid levels. Most other varieties have much higher levels of acid.

What constitutes excellent quality cacao? Cacao should have a rich flavor, low astringency, bountiful oil content, purple hues visible in the bean/nib, a microbe-free status and a real organic certification. Cacao should be devoid of any vinegar-like tastes, crisp to the taste (not soft), nutty in texture instead of crumbling into a powder in the bag and mold-free (no visible mold anywhere especially on the skin of the bean).

Special Notice: Beware of other cacao beans and nibs available on the world market because they are typically heated, fumigated, conventionally-grown and are contaminated by bacteria and fungus.

Public Health Hazard:
Our supplier has found by laboratory testing that other “raw” cacao beans on the market are not only of cheap forastero cacao varieties, they also are contaminated with several types of dangerous bacteria (remember cacao is a tropical crop where microbe contamination is more difficult to control). Following are the exact results from the lab after a sample of some of the poor quality “forastero” variety cacao beans were tested.

Product Analysis of Other “Raw” Cacao Beans On The Market:

TNTC = Too Numerous To Count
Cfu/g = colony-forming units per gram
-ve = verified existence   {A “-ve” rating for Salmonella on any food would get it pulled from any store immediately. And a “-ve” is a low rating compared to a TNTC rating! This lab result demonstrates an incredibly dangerous level of microbe contamination. }

                  Sunfood Raw Cacao Beans           Competitor contaminated Cacao Bean

Sunfood Nutrition cacao beans and nibs are quality controlled at every step until they reach your hands. Sunfood Nutrition delivers the highest quality, best tasting, microbe-free cacao beans/nibs in the world. The pictures above demonstrate the dramatic difference in quality of cacao on the open market. Sunfood Nutrition cacao beans are pictured above on the left. A competitor cacao bean product is pictured on the right. The mold and bacteria contamination is obvious in the competitor sample. However, this type of contamination is not obvious when the product has had the skin removed and is broken into nibs. Be aware of cheap cacao bean and nib products.

  Certificate of analysis
Yearly,  Sunfood Nutrition receives a certificate of analysis from the organic cacao growers. This covers all the 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 these 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 these raw cacao products.

Nature's First Law Raw Organic Cacao Nibs have a delightful, full, antioxidant-rich chocolate flavor. Best used raw & natural but easy to use for all your recipes.  Use like chocolate chips or grind.

All chocolate comes from cacao beans, or cocoa, as it is more commonly known. Nature's First Law Sunfood Nutrition Raw Chocolate Powder is the world's premier raw, organic, antioxidant-rich cocoa powder.

Sunfood Nutrition supplies cacao that is:
 • not fermented less than 15%-compared to 100% industry standard fermentation
 • USDA organic certification quality controlled start-to-finish
 • fino de aroma variety best tasting raw variety in the world
 • crispy fresh texture from a fruit that is blue skinned
 • grown by happy well-paid farmers
 • microbe-free

This Raw Organic Chocolate Powder is created by cold-pressing Nature's First Law Raw Cacao Nibs into a cake - separating the oil from the protein and fiber. The remaining dry 'cake-like' material is then cold-ground, fine-milled and sifted so that only the finest, most bio-available raw cacao particles filter through into the finished product.

Never chemicals, NO hexane,  NO solvents.

The temperature is never allowed to exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit and is usually 104 degrees F (most other cocoa powders are exposed to temperatures as high as 300 degrees Fahrenheit!). A high-accuracy thermometer monitors the process. This low temperature process keeps delicate vitamins, minerals and antioxidants intact, allowing for maximum digestion and absorption.

Nature's First Law Raw Organic Chocolate Powder has a delightful, full, antioxidant-rich chocolate flavor. Best used raw & natural but easy to use for all your recipes. 

And so much more! Delight your friends with the best food ever! Enhance your pleasure to the maximum...enjoy!  Use Cacao Nibs & Cacao Powder equally in all your favorite recipes.

Storage: Refrigeration or storage in a cool, dry place (out of direct sunlight) is recommended, yet not required. Nature's First Law Raw Organic Cacao Powder and Cacao Nibs are microbe-free and highly-stable.

Sunfood Nutrition - After spending nearly two grueling years on research and development, extensive international traveling and endless fine-tuning...and after dropping a small fortune on the most rigorous possible ORAC antioxidant laboratory analysis -  can FINALLY  offer you the most antioxidant-rich, most PURE - great tasting 100% Raw Cacao Powder...   

                                                                        Kirilian photograph of Sunfood Nutrition Raw Cacao Bean

One bottle of Sunfood Cacao Powder delivers 433,570 ORAC Antioxidant units. ORAC antioxidant laboratory analysis confirms that there are over 25,200 antioxidants in a single spoonful of raw chocolate powder!  Dark chocolate has been touted as a source of antioxidants, but this raw chocolate is way beyond that. Living proof that raw is better!

This delicious, easy-to-use and mega-potent (955 ORAC units per gram!) form of chocolate has broken a world record. Never before has there been 25,200 ORAC units of antioxidant power in a spoonful of anything.

What is ORAC?
USDA developed a scale called ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity). It's a high-tech way of measuring the ability of antioxidants to absorb cell damaging, wrinkle causing, tissue destructive free radicals.

Here's an example to illustrate a common confusion: one web site lists both dark cocoa powder and Acai powder (Acai is an exotic fruit from Brazil) at the top of the ORAC Scale. They say natural cocoa powder tops the list with a score of 26,000. The Açai berry rates second highest, making it the powerhouse of the fruit world with a score of 18,500. But what the company conveniently hides is that the cocoa powder and Acai ORAC ratings are for 100 grams! Could you eat 100 grams of straight chocolate powder? Eugh! If you calculate the ORAC units per gram you quickly see that dark cocoa powder is at 260 and Acai is 185.

Not bad, but that's nothing compared to the whopping 955 ORAC Units found in each gram of raw unsprayed cacao powder! The raw version of cacao powder contains 367% more antioxidants than the very best cooked version. We knew the antioxidant rating would be good for this chocolate, but even we were shocked with the results.

Compare Against Other Top-Antioxidant Foods:

To get that same amount of ORAC units from other foods, you'd have to buy:
80 - 6 oz baskets of Organic Blueberries
94 - 6oz baskets of Organic Red Raspberries
Over 5 lbs of frozen Acai
35.5 bottles of Himalayan Goji Juice
You'd even need over 5 bottles of Eniva's VIBE Juice (listed in the Physicians Desk Reference as having the #1 highest ORAC value for a supplemental juice product).

This information goes to show how you need pay close attention to the true overall ORAC values of a product - or you won't be getting the value you deserve.

**All sales of Nature's First Law cacao products support indigenous farmers in Ecuador. To supply this quality, raw, unfermented, organic cacao and products made from this cacao, our supplier pays each farmer 25% more than the price for regular, organic cacao in Ecuador. They also have been helping to fund the growth of infrastructure and irrigation on each farm to ensure quality cacao to customers and to allow each farm to increase production (and therefore increase income). Also, at the processing location, where cacao butter is pressed and cacao powder is separated (amongst other things), they help provide education (regular courses on health, sanitation, etc.) and higher than standard salaries to all the workers. Your support of these exceptional cacao products has already inspired the recent planting of 100,000 cacao trees in Ecuador.
 

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