The Story Behind Your Cup
We partner directly with small-scale family farmers in the remote Amazonian regions of Peru, where cacao thrives in the shade of native rainforest canopy. These aren't industrial plantations, they're multigenerational farms where biodiversity and flavour are inseparable. Every bean is harvested by hand and fermented using time honoured methods passed down through families.
Our flagship Peruvian Criollo comes from the ancestral fields of Luis Reyes and his cooperative, where agroforestry traditions mean cacao plants grow alongside fruit trees, nitrogen-fixing plants, and native hardwoods. This isn't just farming, it's stewardship. The result is cacao with exceptional terroir: bright citrus notes, floral aromatics, and a complexity that only true single-origin can deliver.
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Every cup of ceremonial grade cacao delivers a precise stack of naturally occurring bioactives that modern science is only beginning to describe — compounds we now know support the body's own systems for circulation, energy, and cellular repair. Epicatechin and procyanidin flavanols, shown to support healthy blood flow and arterial function. Theobromine, a gentle, long-acting plant compound that lifts energy without the cortisol spike of caffeine. Polyphenols that support the body's natural antioxidant defences. And one of the richest plant sources of magnesium, iron, and zinc on earth, in the whole-food form your cells actually recognise.
We don't roast it hot. We don't cut it with sugar, dairy, or fillers. What's in the cup is what the plant made, intact, potent, and alive. This is cacao as it was always meant to be taken. Ancient in tradition, validated by science, and felt within the first sip.
Cacao flavanols, particularly epicatechin, are studied for their role in supporting healthy blood flow and vascular function. It's one reason pure cacao brings that signature feeling of warmth, openness, and clarity within the first half hour.
Theobromine is a naturally occurring compound in cacao that supports steady energy and focus for hours, without the jitters, spike, or crash of caffeine. Alert, but rooted. Lifted, but grounded.
Ceremonial cacao is one of the densest plant sources of magnesium, iron, zinc, and polyphenols on earth, the exact minerals and compounds modern life quietly depletes. Whole-food nutrition at a cellular level.
Single-Origin tracing back over 2,000 years comprising less than 10% of the worlds supply. Non-GMO and not cross-bred!
A pure 100% raw unprocessed product. Nothing added or taken away.
A true-superfood that benefits your health. Packed with magnesium, iron, calcium and antioxidants. Great for brain, blood and wellbeing!
Cold Pressed at the lowest temperature possible retaining the highest antioxidant level, efficacy and lowest heavy metals available.
Better than fair trade, we go direct to farmers who comprise of the Awajun (Aguaruna), Shipibo-Conibo and Ashaninka tribes in North Peru the homeland of cacao.
Beyond organic, grown in the wild under the forest canopy, untouched by man, as nature intended. Harvested by hand & sun dried.
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Ingredients (per serve):
Method:
If using a block, chop or grate your cacao first. Combine with hot water and blend using a milk frother, blender, or whisk until smooth and frothy. Add milk and sweetener. Inhale. Sip slowly. Savour.
Great Drink .Perfect for the morning. Tastes fantastic.. If the health benefits are as good as it tastes, it`s a winner
Been looking for a quality Cacao to hopefully use in my sessions as well as for personal use. I received my first order from The Spirit of Cacao and was blown away. The dedication to the delivery of the product, the personal touches and detail of the packaging was exceptional. You dont see this type of effort put into a product these days. You're not buying Cacao, you're buying an experience. Oh and the Cacao was sensational. 10/10 for everything.
So many good things to say about the quality of the product. It delivers on its promises. Early days yet, but my hubby has seen an improvement in his health. Thanks
Beautiful packaging, and the cacao smells soo good as soon as you open the packet. It tastes amazing, and feels so healing every time I take a sip.🌼
I have tried so many different brands of ceremonial cacao but Spirit Of Cacao hit me different. 1st of all the packaging is just beautiful and your cacao is wrapped in the most beautiful wrapping paper with light language symbols. There is something very special about it. Then you have your little ritual of making your cacao and the taste is just gorgeous. So easy to drink and heart warming.
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