What is it?
Most serious chocolate lovers love a good mint chocolate, so we have done our best to satisfy you with this classic creation. We use certified organic peppermint essential oil to get that signature mint chocolate flavour and then add our Raw Cacao Nibs from Satipo, Peru to give the bar a crunch and an extra shot of raw chocolate power.
Please Note: During the warmer months our chocolate can sometimes melt in transit. Please click here for more info on how to best avoid this when ordering and storing your chocolate.

How to use: Eat a square or two for a delicious, energising snack. Even better when shared with someone you love!

Our chocolate is best enjoyed chilled. For best results store in a cool dark place below temperatures of 20 degrees – preferably refrigerated.

What is it?
Venturing into Satipo, Peru, we discovered this beautiful Amazonico Criollo Cacao, grown at the source of the Amazon, and cultivated as it has been for thousands of years. We blend this cacao with cashews and sweet coconut nectar. The result is a smooth and creamy delight. To this perfectly well-rounded chocolate, we add the wild tang of raspberries, cinnamon and nothing else.

The cacao butter used to make this chocolate is Fair Trade Certified. Fair Trade standards ensure that producers and their community receive a fair share of the benefits of trade, thus improving the quality of their lives.

We have sweetened this chocolate bar with Organic Evaporate Coconut Nectar from the island of Java, Indonesia. This low GI (35), mineral rich sweetener, produced from coconut palm blossoms is considered the most sustainable in the world and makes a great cane sugar alternative.

Ingredients: Organic Raw Cashews (27%), Fair Trade Organic Evaporated Coconut Nectar, Organic Virgin Cacao Butter, Organic Raw Cacao Beans, freeze dried raspberry powder (1.5%), organic cinnamon.

Nutrition Information
Serving Size 8.9g (2 squares)

This is Loving Earth's reinvention of a classic, inspired by combing the traditional blend hazelnuts and chocolate.

The cacao butter used to make this chocolate is Fair Trade Certified. Fair Trade standards ensure that producers and their community receive a fair share of the benefits of trade, thus improving the quality of their lives.

We have sweetened this chocolate bar with Organic Evaporate Coconut Nectar from the island of Java, Indonesia. This low GI (35), mineral rich sweetener, produced from coconut palm blossoms is considered the most sustainable in the world and makes a great cane sugar alternative.

How to use
Two to three squares of our Hazelnut Mylk Chocolate makes for a luxurious and decadent experience.

Hazelnut Creamy Mylk Chocolate melts at a lower temperature than our other chocolate due to its healthy coconut fat content, which has a lower melting point than Cacao Butter. Therefore, it's best to store it in the fridge to get that crunchy snap. If it melts it's still fine. In fact, some people love it that way.

Ingredients: Organic Raw Hazelnuts (30%), Organic Evaporated Coconut Nectar, Organic Cacao Butter, Organic Raw Cacao Nibs

Nutrition Information
Serving Size 20g

What is it?
Loving Earth have crafted this chocolate using raw Amazonico Criollo cacao and infused it with fragrant mandarin and a subtle hint of cardamom. We have then added Gubinge, a vitamin C rich plum picked by the Nyul Nyul people in the pristine Kimberley wilderness of Western Australia.

The cacao butter used to make this chocolate is Fair Trade Certified. Fair Trade standards ensure that producers and their community receive a fair share of the benefits of trade, thus improving the quality of their lives.

We have sweetened this chocolate bar with Organic Evaporate Coconut Nectar from the island of Java, Indonesia. This low GI (35), mineral rich sweetener, produced from coconut palm blossoms is considered the most sustainable in the world and makes a great cane sugar alternative.

How to use: Two to three squares of our Mandarin & Gubinge Mylk Chocolate makes for a luxurious and decadent experience.

Mandarin & Gubinge Creamy Mylk Chocolate melts at a lower temperature than our other chocolate due to its healthy coconut fat content, which has a lower melting point than Cacao Butter. Therefore, it's best to store it in the fridge to get that crunchy snap. If it melts it's still fine. In fact, some people love it that way.

Ingredients: Organic Evaporated Coconut Nectar, Organic Cacao Butter, Organic Coconut, Organic Raw Cacao Nibs, Organic Cardamom (1%), Wildcrafted Gubinge, Organic Mandarin Essential Oil (<1%).

Nutrition Information
Serving Size 20g

What is it?
Loving Earth's Caramel Chocolate is made by combining pure Cacao Butter, Raw Cashews, Evaporated Coconut Nectar and Creamy Coconut. We've then added a delicate drop of organic lemon essential oil to this signature chocolate. The result is a zesty flavour that is reminiscent of a lemon cheesecake!

The cacao butter used to make this chocolate is Fair Trade Certified. Fair Trade standards ensure that producers and their community receive a fair share of the benefits of trade, thus improving the quality of their lives.

We have sweetened this chocolate bar with Organic Evaporate Coconut Nectar from the island of Java, Indonesia. This low GI (35), mineral rich sweetener, produced from coconut palm blossoms is considered the most sustainable in the world and makes a great cane sugar alternative.

How to use: Two to three squares of our Lemon Caramel Chocolate makes for a luxurious and decadent experience.

Our chocolate is best enjoyed chilled. Due to the low melting point of the Cacao Butter, we recommend that you refrigerate this product before consuming.

Ingredients: Organic Cacao Butter, Organic Evaporated Coconut Nectar, Organic Raw Cashews, Organic Coconut, Organic Lemon Essential Oil (<1%)

Nutrition Information
Serving Size 20g

We guarantee the premium Criollo Cacao used in this bar has been bought from cacao farmers in Satipo for more than 15% above the fair trade price.

We also support the Criollo community by helping them add as much value as possible to raw materials at the point of origin.

Ingredients: Organic Raw Cacao Butter, Organic Evaporated Coconut Nectar, Organic Coconut, Organic Cashews.

Nutrition Information
Serving Size 20g

What is it?
It’s surprising to note that this chocolate bar is the result of only two plants – the coconut palm tree and cacao. Keeping the ingredients simple and close to their natural state is key to the unique quality of our chocolate.

We’ve always believed that Coconut and Cacao is the perfect marriage – the creaminess of the coconut compliments the rich flavours of cacao beautifully. We’ve played with the subtle balance of this pair to create a new flavour, lighter in cacao content compared to our popular Coconut Mylk Chocolate, one which we could only describe as ‘creamy’!

Raw Cacao Nibs
Antioxidants
Research has demonstrated that the antioxidants in cacao are highly stable and easily available to human metabolism. In the adjacent table you can see that our Raw Cacao has set the world record for antioxidants when compared to the other top 10 antioxidant foods such as Goji Berries, Acai Berries, and blueberries. The ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) scale was developed by the United States Department of Agriculture to measure the ability of antioxidants to absorb free radicals, which normally cause cell and tissue damage. The higher the ORAC score, the higher the level of antioxidants present in the food.

Magnesium for the Heart and Brain
Raw Cacao is a good source of Magnesium. Magnesium is the most important mineral for a healthy functioning heart. It also plays a key role in producing energy for the neurons in the brain from glucose. So when there is an abundance of magnesium the brain works with clarity and focus.

Evaporated Coconut Nectar
Our Evaporated Coconut Nectar is unfiltered and preservative free. It has a low on the Glycemic Index (GI) of 35. By comparison, most honeys are GI 55 and cane sugars are GI 68.

The Glycemic Index provides a ranking for carbohydrates according to the extent to which they raise blood sugar levels after eating. Foods with a low GI (less than 40), produce gradual rises in blood sugar and insulin levels, avoiding the sugar “highs” and “lows” that we experience when consuming foods with high GIs.

Evaporated Coconut Nectar also has a nutritional and mineral content that is richer than all other commercially available sweeteners. When compared to brown sugar, Evaporated Coconut Nectar has twice the iron, four times the magnesium and over 10 times the amount of zinc.

Coconut
The coconut we use at Loving Earth is certified organic and sulphite free. A rich source of lauric acid (antifungal, antimicrobial), coconut is also a rich source of dietary fibre.

Almost half of the Coconut’s fatty acid profile consists of lauric acid. Apart from being associated with anti-microbial, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties, studies have found lauric acid increases good cholesterol in the body.

Growing & Processing
Cacao
Satipo is a region that sits at the edge of the Amazon basin at the base of the Andes mountain range. In this area we work with 4 small producer groups that are grouped under the umbrella association of cacao producers of Satipo that consists of 164 families in total.

There are three main varieties of the cacao plant; the Forastero, Criollo and Trinitario. The cacao beans that we have sourced from Satipo are of the Criollo variety, which are the rarest of the three types of beans and are highly regarded for their delicate and complex flavours.

Processing
Cacao pods are harvested from the trees and cracked open. The beans are then taken out and fermented. The level of fermentation affects the flavour; we do a low fermentation at approximately 45 °C. At this lower temperature, the structure of the nutrients is preserved.

The main thing that Loving Earth does differently to other chocolate makers is that we don't roast the raw cacao beans before we process them. The standard procedure in the chocolate industry is to roast raw cacao to create cocoa, which has a lower nutritional content. This method also removes some of the antioxidants contained within. At Loving Earth, we wash our raw cacao beans with a citric-based organic disinfectant to remove the microbiological matter, whilst preserving the nutrient and antioxidant properties.

Afterwards, the beans are dried in large commercial dehydrators at controlled temperatures, before being winnowed into nibs, whereby the skin is removed. The nibs are ground and pressed to create the Raw Cacao Powder and Raw Cacao Butter.

This process also yields three other by-products - Raw Cacao Nibs, Raw Cacao Beans and Raw Cacao Liquor.

This highly efficient process allows us to extract the five basic materials we need to create our Loving Earth chocolate, all from a single origin in Peru. By sourcing our cacao products from this one community, we are supporting Satipo’s agricultural industry as well as the development of their indigenous community.

Our Raw Cacao Butter is then combined with Creamy Raw Cashews, Coconut and Evaporated Coconut Nectar to create our delicious Creamy Coconut Mylk Chocolate

  
Ingredients: Organic Raw Cacao Nibs, Organic Evaporated Coconut Nectar, Organic Coconut (23%)

Nutrition Information
Serving Size 20g

How to use
Two to three squares of our Creamy Coconut Mylk Chocolate makes for a luxurious and decadent experience. You can also melt and add as a topping to ice cream and desserts or use in baking too.

Creamy Coconut Mylk Chocolate melts at a lower temperature than our other chocolate due to its healthy coconut fat content, which has a lower melting point than Cacao Butter. Therefore, it's best to store it in the fridge to get that crunchy snap. If it melts it's still fine. In fact, some people love it that way.

Ingredients: Organic raw cacao nibs, Organic evaporated coconut nectar, Organic raw cacao butter, Organic Vanilla Beans. Organic Raw Cacao: 73% min

All of the ingredients in this delicious blend are certified organic, single origin and fairly traded. We use our raw cacao powder, which is cold pressed from an heirloom variety of Criollo Cacao Grown in the Amazon rainforest of Satipo, Peru. We have also included our very own Loving Earth Shaved raw chocolate in this blend to ensure its decadent creamy texture. For sweetening instead of cane sugar we use Coconut Sugar, a minimally processed, low GI (35) sweetener with four times the minerals of brown sugar.

Serving Suggestions: For a decadent rich hot chocolate: Add three heaped dessertspoons of drinking chocolate into a cup and pour 250-300ml of hot water over the chocolate and stir gently.

For an iced chocolate: Blend 3 heaped dessertspoons with 1 cup of ice and 1 cup of water in a blender until smooth.

Ingredients: Organic coconut sugar, organic raw cacao powder, organic raw dark chocolate (organic raw cacao butter & powder, organic raw light agave syrup), himalayan salt.