75% Rough-Ground Super Dark - Naive, 50 g
Product detailed description
Most chocolate chases smoothness. This one goes the other way. Naive grinds the beans on stone and leaves the mass coarser than modern practice allows, following the tradition of rough ground Central American chocolate. Crystals of raw cane sugar stay in the mass and crunch on the tongue.
The cacao comes from Bolivia and makes up 75% of the bar. Raw cane sugar is the only sweetener, 18.7 g of sugars across the whole bar. Apart from cocoa butter there is nothing else in the recipe, no emulsifier and no added flavourings.
Texture matters here as much as flavour. You feel the sugar grains and the coarse cacao on your tongue before the bitterness arrives, and that is what sets this bar apart from smooth high percentage chocolate. It works with coffee and with wine.
Key benefits
- 75% cocoa solids – a dark bar built on Bolivian beans
- Stone ground – worked in the tradition of rough ground Central American chocolate
- Coarse texture – raw sugar crystals stay in the mass and crunch on the tongue
- Three ingredients – cacao, raw cane sugar and cocoa butter, nothing else
- No refined sugar – 18.7 g of sugars across the whole bar
- No emulsifier – no lecithin, no added flavourings, no preservatives
How to enjoy it
Break off a piece and let it dissolve slowly so the coarse texture has time to show itself. Eaten that way a 50 g bar lasts several days. It tastes best at room temperature.
Ingredients
Cacao*, raw cane sugar*, pure cocoa butter*. * wild harvested or from all natural farming. Cocoa solids 75% minimum. Bean origin: Bolivia. Made in Lithuania.
| Nutrition | per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 2506 kJ / 599 kcal |
| Fat | 42.7 g |
| of which saturates | 25.5 g |
| Carbohydrate | 38 g |
| of which sugars | 32.8 g |
| Protein | 9.5 g |
| Salt | 17 mg |
Important information
May contain traces of nuts, peanuts and gluten. Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. The best before date is printed on the pack.
Distributor
Manufacturer: Chocolate Naive, Lithuania.
Distributor: Adam Raw, Metylovice 552, 739 49 Metylovice, Czech Republic, Reg. No. 03452824.
Additional parameters
| Category: | Chocolate & Bars |
|---|---|
| EAN: | 4779031531369 |
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Naive: bean-to-bar chocolate from Lithuania that treats cacao like wine
Naive is a small Lithuanian chocolate maker with an unusual approach. Rather than forcing every bean into the same recipe, the team analyses each cacao lot for taste, colour, aroma and texture and only then decides how to roast, grind and finish it. The goal is to reveal the character of that specific bean, not to hide it under sugar and vanilla.
The results have put Lithuania on the map of fine chocolate and earned Naive a reputation as one of the rising names in the craft chocolate world. Some bars are experiments you will not see anywhere else: Jaguar Tree Cacao made from the rare Theobroma bicolor, Ambrosia, a dark chocolate with bee pollen and honey, Kefir dark-milk, and the sugar-free Molecules series. More than twenty of them are on the shelf at BJP Store.