70% chocolate for cooking and baking - BIO Grand cru de Sambirano boby - 1 kg

Organic high-percentage confectionery dark chocolate for baking and cooking from the brand Chocolat Madagascar with 70% content of special and award-winning Grand Cru de Sambirano cocoa beans, sweetened with raw cane sugar from the Ampasimanolotra region. The flavour of this dark chocolate combines notes of citrus fruits, mulled wine with a pleasantly bitter taste of cocoa.

The taste is unlike any other chocolate. It is full of raisins and molasses, with typical Madagascan citrus notes lurking almost in the background. Part of the flavour comes from the organic sugar used, which works perfectly with the natural fruit notes in the chocolate to create a unique and amazing chocolate.

The chocolate has a wonderful mahogany brown colour, velvety texture, melts smoothly on the tongue and has a long finish in which its individual flavour notes are gradually revealed. Chocolate melts well, so it is great for making homemade dark chocolate, various cake toppings and other confectionery treats.

It contains 2.2 times more cocoa and 83% less added sugar than EU standards for this type of chocolate. So this is really honest chocolate, voluntarily produced by the producer at a much higher quality than the regulations state. This chocolate is a world winner and holder of the Golden Bean award in the competition organized by the Academy of Chocolate.

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Profile of

• Palette - mild, fruity, with notes of raisins and citrus. Fine texture. A long conclusion.

• It stays fresher longer, dissolves and tempers easily.
• Format: 100 g X 10 tablets.
• Fine structure < 20um.
• Fine cocoa flavour: single origin and terroir specific Forastero, Trinitario-Criollo
• Organic certified cocoa "Grand Cru de Sambirano", Northwest Madagascar
• Freshly processed in Madagascar.
• High fibre content.
• High in flavanols/antioxidants (ORAC).
• No added flavours.
• Without chemical processing .
• No alkalization. Preservation of natural flavours and antioxidants.
• Vegan.
• Ingredients: Madagascar cocoa beans, cane sugar, Madagascar cocoa butter, non-GMO sunflower lecithin. Cocoa solids min. 70 %.
• Use: For chocolate shops, chocolate confectionery, chocolate drinks, pastries, toppings, etc.
• Temperature: melting point in a Bain-Marie or microwave oven 45 °C - 50 °C . Crystallization temperature: 27 °C Indicated use temperature: 32 - 33 °C .
• Package dimensions 180 mm X 180 mm X 50 mm
• Net weight 1 kg ( 10 X 100 g)

Nutritional values per 100g:

• Content: energy value 588 kcal / 2443 kj
• protein 6,1g
• carbohydrates 40.3 g, of which sugars 29.8 g
• fibre 12 g
• fats 42,4 g
• theobromine 800 mg
• magnesium 220 mg
• phosphorus 300 mg
• cholesterol 0 mg

International awards

• Golden Bean Award, 2017
• Silver - Academy of Chocolate Awards, 2015

The island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean is considered to be the best cocoa-growing region on the African continent, and Chocolat Madagascar is a brand that has been inseparable from it since 1940. You have to try their sustainably produced chocolate on the original retro chocolate line - it has a cult reputation.

Making tree to bar chocolates

The entire production of Chocolat Madagascar chocolates - from the harvesting of the cocoa beans, through their processing, to the subsequent production of the chocolates and their packaging - is carried out directly in Madagascar - the so-called tree to bar production. The cocoa beans are thus as fresh as possible at the time of processing, which has a significant impact on their taste and nutritional value.

Thanks to their full flavour, the chocolates taste great on their own, they are not unpleasantly bitter, and there is no need to add any additional flavourings or chemically treat them with alkalisation. This method of production also supports the local economy to the maximum extent possible and is also a highly environmentally friendly solution thanks to fuel savings. The Chocolat Madagascar brand has elevated the concept of fair trade to raise trade.

What is raise trade

The term 'raise trade' means that the chocolate is produced entirely in the country where the cocoa is grown. Most chocolates (traditional and fairtrade) import cocoa that continues to be processed in countries with economies that are rich compared to the country of origin of the cocoa.

Around 3% of the value is in the developing country that grows cocoa and 97% is in the processing country - a huge disparity for the economy of a developing country and a population that relies 100% on farming for its main livelihood.

Chocolat Madagascar is the only chocolate on this African island that has been actively practicing raise trade since 1940.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory doesn't exist

You may not know that by buying chocolate from a supermarket owned by a conglomerate like Nestlé, Unilever or Kraft, you are supporting child slavery in Africa or anywhere else where chocolate is grown. Take a look at the back of your chocolate wrapper and find out who really makes it and where your hard-earned money goes. Cheap chocolate equals poor quality and unethical chocolate. Choose chocolate from a manufacturer such as Chocolat Madagascar.

If you want to try chocolates from other parts of the world, we have ultra high-end brands such as the British brand Tosier Chocolatemaker or the Belgian brand InCacao,where the emphasis is on fairtrade production and, above all, the use of the best quality cocoa available in the world(both brands buy cocoa only from the best cocoa farms in the world - the top 5%).

Take a look at the chart below, where you can clearly see the difference in the size of the chocolate market - fine flavour chocolate versus certified meat chocolate versus regular meat chocolate, which costs 50 CZK. High-end fine chocolate (in blue) you can't even see on the chart how tiny a percentage belongs to it. This is what we offer in our e-shop from the brands Tosier Chocolatemaker and InCacao. By buying them, you not only get to enjoy the true taste of chocolate, but more importantly, you support poor farmers who work very hard instead of rich corporate executives, TV advertising and marketing. Let's put our money where it will make a difference. Thank you.

Compare the typical composition of regular cheap supermarket milk chocolate versus Chocolat Madagascar.

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