Giant 100% Hacienda Victoria Ecuador, KAICAO 500g
Product detailed description
Hacienda Victoria is a farm founded in 2011 in Cerecita, in Ecuador's Guayas province. It is devoted to protecting and preserving historic Ecuadorian cocoa: the beans are carefully grown, fermented under controlled conditions and slowly sun-dried. Those beans are all that goes into this 100% KAICAO chocolate, a single-ingredient bar with no sugar, no milk and no other additions.
One hundred per cent cocoa means an uncompromisingly bitter chocolate, yet according to the distributor this one has a naturally gentle character, a subtle sweetness and a rounded flavour profile. You will find notes of biscuit, honey, white fruit and nougat, the tasting profile the maker records for Hacienda Victoria. It naturally contains just 1 g of sugars per 100 g and nothing is added or sweetened. If this is your first 100% bar, let a small piece melt slowly on your tongue, the flavour unfolds in stages.
The giant 500 g bar is for those who eat 100% chocolate regularly, a small piece at a time, or who also use it in the kitchen: grated into porridge, melted into hot milk or as the base for your own hot chocolate. Compared with the 30 g bar the size works out far better value and it will keep you going for a long time.
Key benefits
- Single ingredient – cocoa beans and nothing else
- Hacienda Victoria – a farm in Cerecita, Guayas province, Ecuador, founded in 2011
- Tasting profile – biscuit, honey, white fruit, nougat
- No added sugar – naturally just 1 g of sugars per 100 g
- Controlled fermentation and sun-drying – slow processing of the beans on the farm itself
- Giant 500 g bar – better-value size for regular eaters and for the kitchen
Ingredients
Cocoa beans. Cocoa content: 100%. Cocoa origin: non-EU (Ecuador, Hacienda Victoria). Made in Spain. Allergens: may contain traces of nuts, sesame and milk.
Nutritional values per 100 g
| Energy | 2527 kJ / 612 kcal |
| Fat | 54 g |
| of which saturates | 34 g |
| Carbohydrate | 12.2 g |
| of which sugars | 1 g |
| Protein | 13.4 g |
| Salt | 0.001 g |
Storage and warnings
Store in a dry, dark place at up to 18 °C. The best-before date is printed on the back of the pack. Net weight: 500 g.
Distributor
Distributor for the Czech Republic: Adam Raw, Metylovice 552, 739 49 Metylovice, Czech Republic, Company ID: 03452824.
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KAICAO: stone-ground ceremonial cacao
KAICAO is the brand of Madrid chocolatier Ida Talmore, who works bean-to-bar: from choosing the beans on a specific plantation to the finished product in one workshop. KAICAO ceremonial cacao is a full-fat cacao powder made from lightly roasted beans that are stone-ground for two days and then aged for two months. The result is earthy with a light floral note, and it is prepared as a thick hot drink rather than the sweet cocoa of childhood.
The beans come from a single Ecuadorian plantation, Hacienda Limón; the MEXICAN variety uses washed Lavado beans from Tabasco in Mexico. Nothing is sweetened with sugar and no emulsifiers or lecithin are added.
At BJP Store you will find
- 100% ceremonial cacao – pure, single-ingredient, 200 g for ten servings.
- MEXICAN – 96% cacao with two kinds of chilli, cinnamon, star anise and cloves in the style of Mesoamerican xocoatl.
- FOCUS and MINDFULNESS – 92% cacao with lion's mane and cordyceps, or with reishi, ashwagandha and spices.