Original Beans Virunga 70% Cacao Chocolate 70g Bar

VIRUNGA PARK CACAO

Hints of morello cherries, earthy chocolate and black tea are revealed as the rare Cru Virunga melts in your mouth. The depth of flavour comes from a rare amelonado cacao, originally cultivated in the upper Amazon region. Its taste is evocative of the intensity of the last mountain gorillas that inhabit Virunga National Park.

SUPPORTING LOCAL FARMERS & ECOLOGY

Each purchase of earthy Virunga 70% supports its farmers rebuild sustainable livelihoods around Africa’s oldest park, in addition to participating in successful health education and cacao training programs. Over three million trees have been planted and deforestation rates have halved since the beginning of the cacao project, helping protect the last of the mountain gorillas.

Taste the rare and preserve it

Since 2008 Original Beans have followed their mission, inviting consumers ‘to taste the rare and preserve it’ – not only producing delicious tasting, additive free chocolate, but also delivering powerful social and environmental impact programs at the origin of the cacao; protecting endangered wildlife, tripling farmer incomes and planting or preserving one tree for every single bar sold.

CONSERVATION INNOVATION

We talk with Phillip, founder of award-winning chocolate company Original Beans, about their goal of being ‘a 100% regenerative company that returns more to nature than it takes’, we explore his motivations, explore the principles that underpin Original Beans work and discover the many benefits they have created.