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Cacaosuyo - Piura Milk Chocolate - 50% - 70 g
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Cacaosuyo - El Ganso Dark Chocolate - 70% - 70 g
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Cacaosuyo - Cuzco 80% (Gold Award) - 70 g
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About Cacaosuyo
- Based in
- Peru
- Founded
- 2012
- Known for
- chocolate made from Peruvian cacao traced to the farm
Samir Giha and Eduardo Lanfranco met at the Salón del Cacao in Lima in 2012, and Cacaosuyo dates its founding to that year. At the time, the Piura region was already known for its white cacao. The company's dark chocolates now carry origins from Amazonas, Cuzco and Piura.
The founders buy wet beans, as soon as they come out of the pod, which is unusual among chocolate makers. They have built post-harvest centers in the regions where they buy, with employees and engineers on site, and they select the trees that give the most aromatic cacao. Cacaosuyo oversees each step from harvest to finished chocolate, and close work with small farmers lets it trace every piece back to its source.
The range covers milk and dark bars at different cacao percentages. Let a square melt on the tongue instead of chewing it; the flavors open up slowly.
Cacaosuyo questions
Why does Cacaosuyo buy wet cacao beans?
Fresh cacao beans come out of the pod coated in a sweet white pulp, and they taste nothing like chocolate yet. Over about six days of fermentation the pulp breaks down, and changes inside each bean create the compounds that turn into chocolate flavor when the beans are roasted. Most makers buy beans that farmers have already fermented and dried; Cacaosuyo buys them wet and handles those steps in its own post-harvest centers, because poor fermentation can ruin good cacao.
What do the percentages on Cacaosuyo bars mean?
The number is how much of the bar's weight comes from the cacao bean, counting both the cocoa solids and the cocoa butter. In a dark bar most of the rest is sugar, so a higher number means a less sweet, more intense chocolate. In a milk bar, milk takes some of that share, which gives a softer, sweeter bite.
