JAGUAR TREE CACAO (Theobroma bicolor) Naive, 60 g
Product detailed description
Jaguar Tree Cacao is a dark bar from the Lithuanian workshop Chocolate Naive, where 70% chocolate made from white heirloom cacao meets whole beans of wild jaguar cacao. Botanically this is Theobroma bicolor, a rarer relative of the common cacao tree that grows in the tropics of Central America.
Jaguar beans taste nothing like ordinary cacao. Ripe beans carry no significant amount of alkaloids, so there is neither bitterness nor astringency. They open on fresh almond and macadamia, move through toasted bread and finish on a spiced, gently smoky note that holds on the palate for several minutes. Domantas Užpalis added smoked paprika and sea salt to his recipe.
The bar weighs 60 g and is sweetened with organic raw cane sugar, 18 g across the whole bar. It rewards slow tasting square by square, works alongside coffee and rounds off a dinner nicely. A good pick if you like pulling a flavour profile apart and want to taste an ingredient you will not find on a supermarket shelf.
Key benefits
- Wild jaguar cacao – whole Theobroma bicolor beans, a rare relative of the cacao tree from the Central American tropics.
- White heirloom cacao – the base of the bar, with a minimum of 70% cocoa solids.
- Smoked paprika and sea salt – a smoky, salty counterpoint to the sweetness of the bar.
- Bean to bar – Naive roasts, conches and tempers the beans in its own workshop in Lithuania.
- Long finish – the flavour unfolds in layers and holds for several minutes.
- No bitterness – ripe jaguar beans contain no significant amount of alkaloids.
How to use
Snap off a square and let it melt slowly on the tongue so the flavour unfolds. It tastes best at room temperature, so let it rest a moment after it comes out of the fridge. Pairs well with coffee and tea.
Ingredients
Wild jaguar cacao, 70% heirloom chocolate (white heirloom cacao, cane sugar*, cocoa butter*), smoked paprika, sea salt. Cocoa solids minimum 70%. *organic
Net weight 60 g. Made in Lithuania, cacao origin Central America.
| Nutrition | per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 2287 kJ / 546 kcal |
| Fat | 48 g |
| of which saturates | 25 g |
| Carbohydrate | 36 g |
| of which sugars | 30 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Salt | 0.3 g |
Warning
Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. The best before date is printed on the pack.
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.