One Bar : One Tree

Your Esmeraldas Milk originates from the most famous original bean in the world, one that in branding compares to Europe’s grand wines: Ecuador’s Nacional Arriba. By replanting trees in the Esmeraldas, your chocolate directly contributes to preserving this original bean and its rainforest home.

From the cacao producer, to you, our customer, all people involved in Original Beans find each other in the simple belief that what we consume, we must replenish.

New Forest

The Esmeraldas rainforests are a remote region with an old cacao tradition. People here have long lived in balance with the land, but low cacao prices and illegal logging threaten them. Support in replanting and rejuvenating their cacao forests helps them maintain their traditions and ecosystem.

Local Farmer

The people of the Esmeraldas have been subject to large scale illegal logging for decades. In response, the locals have developed organizations to resist the loggers. Nacional Arriba cacao is both a symbol and an economic opportunity for them to manifest their independence and stake in the future of the rainforests.

Rainforest Diversity

The origin rainforest of the Esmeraldas Milk lie in the Pacific Northwest of Ecuador. These forests, some of which steeped in eternal rainclouds, are among the most diverse in the world, teeming with birds (over 650 species), monkeys, deer, orchids, bromeliads, insects, and, yes, poison frogs.

Cocoa Beans

Ecuador is known as origin of the fine flavour cacao Arriba. The tree grows fruit with a distinct yellow color and shape, and produces often to 100 years of age. So it is worth changing the trend that Arriba bean production in Ecuador is loosing out to purple, tasteless, industrial hybrid cacaos.

Chocolate Lover

It must have been a poet who offered the name Esmeraldas to the home of the Arriba cacao. The Arriba's flavour profile is full and characteristically nutty. The union of ocean and rainforest, we say, is the reason why we add a hint of sea salt to our Esmeraldas Milk.

One Bar : One Tree

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