Black and Smaragd Ants (purple chocolate with ants), 50 g
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Product detailed description
A purple 70% bar from the Lithuanian maker Chocolate Naive, built on fine raw cacao from Borneo. Two species of ant go into the recipe: wild black mountain ants (Polyrhachis vicina) and green tree ants (Oecophylla smaragdina). The recipe came out of a collaboration between Domantas Užpalis and Adam Raw.
Ants carry a pronounced citrus flavour with notes of lime and blackcurrant, which gives the bar an unusual acidity. Every bar holds 3000 mg of a 50:1 extract of black mountain ants, 2000 mg of raw powder from the same species, and freeze-dried green tree ants. That adds up to 5 g of ant material per bar.
The purple colour comes straight from the cacao beans, not from a colouring. The flavour profile runs lime, coriander, blackcurrant, earthiness, purple cacao and a light acidity. The bar weighs 50 g. This is not a bar for one sitting, more the sort of thing you hand round and wait for the reaction.
Key benefits
- Two ant species – Polyrhachis vicina and Oecophylla smaragdina, 5 g of material per bar.
- 50:1 extract – 3000 mg of black mountain ant concentrate in every bar.
- Purple Borneo cacao – the colour comes from the beans, not from a colouring.
- Minimum 70% cocoa solids – a dark profile with a pronounced acidity.
- Citrus character – lime and blackcurrant from the ants, plus coriander and earthiness.
- Bean to bar by Naive – made in Lithuania from fine raw cacao.
How to use
Snap off a square and let it melt slowly in the mouth, the acidity from the ants arrives on the second wave. The bar gives most of its flavour at room temperature. It works well with black coffee.
Ingredients
Purple raw cacao, raw cane sugar, cocoa butter, black mountain ant extract Polyrhachis vicina (3000 mg), raw powder of the same ants (2000 mg), freeze-dried green tree ants Oecophylla smaragdina. Cocoa solids minimum 70%.
Net weight 50 g. Made by Chocolate Naive, Lithuania. Cacao origin Borneo.
| Nutrition | per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 2465 kJ / 588 kcal |
| Fat | 37 g |
| of which saturates | 21 g |
| Carbohydrate | 49 g |
| of which sugars | 26 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Salt | 0.042 g |
Warning
Contains insects. If you are allergic to crustaceans, molluscs or dust mites, you may react to this product through cross-reactivity. May contain traces of nuts and peanuts. Store in a cool, dry place below 18 °C, away from direct sunlight.
Distributor
Distributor: Adam Raw, Metylovice 552, 739 49 Metylovice, Czech Republic, Reg. No. 03452824.
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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.