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The Little Cacao Co., Ontario (2026)

08/20/2026

The SuperFood Cacao Bean Series #8 🍫🫘

Look what keeps showing up in the press..

🌱 Eat a "flavodiet" to stay physically and mentally strong as you age.
🧠 Following a "flavodiet" may help protect brain health.
🙌 Flavonoid-rich foods may help us stay stronger as we age.

What exactly is a FlavoDiet? And why are we suddenly hearing so much about flavonoids?

Researchers use the term "Flavo-diet" to describe eating plenty of flavonoid-rich foods, including cacao, tea, berries, apples and oranges.

Scientists are studying them in connection with something I care deeply about: healthspan.

Not simply how long we live, but how well we live. Staying physically stronger, mentally healthier and more resilient as we get older.

One large healthy-aging study caught my attention:
• More than 86,000 adults aged 60+ were followed.
• Women with the highest Flavodiet scores had a 15% lower risk of frailty.
• They also had a 12% lower risk of impaired physical function.
• And a 12% lower risk of poor mental health.

Now here's where cacao comes in. 🍫

Flavonoids are a big family of naturally occurring plant compounds. Flavanols are an important branch of that family.

And our SuperFood Cacao beans are exceptionally rich in naturally occurring Flavanols, in fact, the #1 richest of all nutrients or foods.

I thought blueberries were the antioxidant SuperFood. 🫐 Most of us have also heard about green tea and red wine.

Chocolate was supposed to be a guilty pleasure. The more I learned about flavanols, the more I realized cacao was a true
SuperFood that had been hiding in plain sight.

That discovery changed the kind of chocolate company I wanted to build.

I didn't simply want to remove sugar. I wanted to protect more of the extraordinary goodness already inside the cacao bean.

That means caring about where our cacao comes from, how it is fermented, how it is roasted and every step that follows. It is also why we never alkalize our cacao.

Because if Mother Nature put all that goodness inside the bean, why would we deliberately take it out?
Alkalization, also called "Dutch processing," can strip away up to 90% of those flavanols. All of that goodness, gone. Just to make a bar darker and smoother.

We chose the harder way: Single-origin Peru. Farm-to-bar with careful control of heat and processing, designed to preserve more of cacao's naturally occurring antioxidants and flavanols.

The FlavoDiet may be a new term. Flavanols may still be a word most people don't recognize.. yet.

Trust me, we are going to hear much, much more about both. 🍫🌱

Quick question... 👇 Before today, had you heard of:
🌱 The FlavoDiet
🍫 Flavanols
🤔 Neither one

The Little Cacao Co. Ross Chocolatess Chocolates Diabetic Friendly. 🥑 Keto Friendly. 🙌 Human Friendly. 👨‍🌾 Farmer Friendly. 🌎 Planet Friendly. 🫘 Fair Trade. 🍫 ❤️ Made in small batches with love and care. 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. 👩 Canadian and Women's Owned. 🌈 CQCC Certified. Ezra Cerezo Suzie Yorke

08/14/2026

RETAILERS are saying “YES” to Pure Functional Chocolate! 🍫🇨🇦

So, first, a big warm THANK YOU! 🙏🏻🧡🤎💚💜💛🙏🏻

Thank you to the many retailers who have QUICKLY jumped on board to support The Little Cacao Co.’s chocolate lineup of pure chocolate bars and Mini Cups.

We have ONE BIG MISSION together:
To become the #1 brand of Healthy, Great-for-You Pure Chocolate in Canada! 🍫❤️🇨🇦

The list of Retailers that have already listed our Chocolate +High Protein line-up and have them on shelves NOW:

❤️ Fortinos Supermarket Ltd Healthy Planet Fiddleheads Health & Nutrition Whole Foods Market Les Marches TAU Nature's Fare Markets .ca Well.ca

Second:

More than 100 Sales kits will be shipping out on August 24th to head out across Canada to :
🍫 The entire LeBeau Excel Sales & Marketing
🍫 All our Investors and vendor partners 🧡🧡🧡
🍫 All retailers that have already requested samples or that we met recently
🍫 Our distributor partners: Puresource Natural Products Distributor - A NOW Health Group Company LCG Foods Distribution Johnston Wholesale

Your support means so much.

You are supporting a Canadian, women-owned, pure chocolate little company with our own manufacturing. 🇨🇦❤️

You are also helping prove something very important:
"Canadians want real, PURE Chocolate with clean ingredients and functional benefits, without sacrificing that creamy, melt-in-your-mouth taste! 🍫😋"

Your support gives us the confidence to keep dreaming, creating, and innovating. Somebody "can" make chocolate healthy. It's time. I'm on it!

Launching in just two weeks (get your PO's in!)
EIGHT new Pure Chocolate SKUs! 👀🍫💥 And EACH one has
✅ No sugar added
✅ No sugar alcohols
✅ High Pre-biotic fibre
✅ No bitterness or Stevia aftertaste
✅ Clean ingredients NO FAKE STUFF!
✅ Made in small batches with lots of love and care ❤️ in Vancouver Canada 🇨🇦

Our new family includes:
🍫 FOUR creamy Pure Chocolate bars
🥜 TWO Pure Chocolate-covered nut products
🍪 TWO Pure Chocolate baking chips

We are just getting started! ❤️🚀**

Retailers and chocolate lovers, which of the EIGHT new products do you want to try first? DM me for samples (and PO's)
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Little Cacao Co. 🍫 Ross Chocolatesss Chocolate
The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean.
Fair Trade. ❤️ Made in small batches with love and care. 🍫🫘 Made in Canada. 🇨🇦 Canadian and Women’s Owned. CQCC Certified. 🌈
Ezra Cerezo Suzie Yorke

08/13/2026

I have been waiting fifteen months to share this!!!!! 🥹🍫🚀
Our biggest INNOVATION launch yet is almost here.

EIGHT, yup 8, new The Little Cacao Co. SKUs. and 6 dedicated to slay on eComm!

From the moment that I knew I was going to buy the Ross Chocolates Factory in Vancouver, I quickly started working on these exact products. I knew this was what we needed to build a brand and fulfill our Mission in Canada:

"To become the #1 brand of healthy, pure chocolate in Canada"

Then so, so many rounds of our "Suzie’s 4P’s".

Concepts, kitchen batches, samples, formulas, issues, solutions, more issues, blind tastings, more tastings, packaging, claims, oops edits, more edits.

Finally, we nailed the formulas, creamy taste, and the packaging is landing at our factory on Friday.

And NOW…Boom, go time!

Our HERO SKUs, this new family of Pure Chocolate with No Sugar added and High Pre-biotic fibre, are just about ready to go! 👀🍫👇🏻

🍫 FOUR creamy, melt-in-your-mouth Pure Chocolate Bars:
❤️ Milk Chocolate Salted Caramel 💜 Dark Chocolate 🩷 Milk Chocolate 💚 Milk with Salted Pistachio

PLUS:

🥜 Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds and 🥜 Milk Chocolate Covered Hazelnuts

PLUS

🍪 Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 🍪 Milk Chocolate Baking Chips

EACH and ALL of them:

✅ Creamy, melt-in-your mouth.
✅ Pure Chocolate (not "chocolatey style"...)
✅ No sugar added
✅ No sugar alcohols
✅ High Pre-biotic fibre
✅ No bitterness, no Stevia "aftertaste"
✅ Clean ingredients. NO FAKE STUFF!
✅ Made in small batches with love and care ❤️
✅ Made in Canada 🇨🇦
✅ Now, we have the right sizes for Retail and new sizes to slay on eComm channels too. META and Amazon campaigns will kick into gear with BTS.

This is our BIGGEST innovation launch yet. Our new HERO products.

I am SOOOOO proud of this team. 🥹❤️

OK, PURE chocolate lovers, if you can choose ONLY ONE to try first, which one are you grabbing???? 🍫👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

PS.. watch my Linked in for a "Early Bird" Promotion. Will publish the code here next week.

Contact your partners : LeBeau Excel Sales & Marketing Puresource Natural Products Distributor - A NOW Health Group Company LCG Foods Distribution

The Little Cacao Co. 🍫
The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean.
Fair Trade. ❤️ Made in small batches with love and care. 🍫🫘 Made in Canada. 🇨🇦 Canadian and Women’s Owned. CQCC Certified. 🌈

Ezra Cerezo Suzie Yorke

08/08/2026

The SuperFood Cacao Bean Series #7 🍫🫘

Why is chocolate bitter? 🤔 Can you not have much less bitterness yet also be healthy? Why must we compromise?

We now know that fresh cacao beans do NOT taste like chocolate. Not even close. 😳

You crack open that gorgeous pod, taste the sweet white pulp, and then the beans … they don't taste chocolatey, nope. ❌ Not even close.

Raw cacao is bitter AND astringent:
👅 Bitterness is a taste.
😬 Astringency is that dry, puckering feeling in your mouth.

Fresh cacao has plenty of both. Here's the twist.

Some of the compounds behind that bitterness and astringency are also part of cacao's SuperFood reputation: The Flavanols. The Polyphenols. 🌱 The Antioxidants. A ton of them too...

So the challenge of making great-tasting, not bitter, chocolate isn't simply "remove the bitterness."

It's this:
=> How do you tame an intensely bitter, astringent seed… without stripping away what makes it extraordinary in the first place? 🍫

That's the tension every chocolate maker has to solve for 200+ years:

🌿 Fermentation is the first big transformation. Wild yeasts and bacteria get to work. Some of that harshness begins to fade, while the building blocks of chocolate's flavour start developing.

🔥 Roasting transforms it again. Heat unlocks the incredible aromas we recognize as chocolate and mellows more of the bitterness and astringency.

⚗️ Alkalization, also called Dutch processing, goes even further. Soaking in Alkali to get milder, smoother and much darker.
In one study comparing commercial cocoa powders, researchers found average total flavanol levels of:

🍫 Natural cocoa powder: 34.6 mg/g
🍫 Heavily alkalized cocoa powder: just 3.9 mg/g

YES... That's almost 90% less. 📉

The exact amount varies depending on the cacao and how heavily it is processed.

But the direction is clear: heavier alkalization can mean substantially fewer Flavanols.

And many consumers, like me, want creamy and loaded with all the healthy antioxidants.

So now we know: bitterness alone doesn't automatically mean "healthier." 🙅‍♀️ The science is more nuanced than that.

In the past, bitterness meant "healthier," and creamy milk meant loaded with bad stuff, overly processed, and "feel guilty."

Well, well, well... Now you don't have to trade off Bitterness for Flavanols/SuperFood Antioxidants.

Best of both worlds: we can have both!
That's why we never alkalize our cacao.

The Little Cacao Co. Ross Chocolatess Chocolates we:
✅ Preserve more of what naturally makes cacao extraordinary
✅ Create chocolate that is still creamy and delicious
Try any of our milk and dark: they're all creamy and not bitter. Best of both worlds. Finally.

The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean. 🥣 Diabetic Friendly. 🥑 Keto Friendly. 🙌 Human Friendly. 👨‍🌾 Farmer Friendly. 🌎 Planet Friendly. 🫘 Fair Trade. 🍫 Made in small batches. ❤️ With love and care. 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. 👩 Ezra Cerezo Suzie Yorke

08/03/2026

At 13, I played baseball. Second base. Boys' league. Got people talking. Of course, I was the only girl on the team. Rick played too, first base. We were the Montreal Little League team "with a girl" / "avec une fille".

Well, this weekend, Maybelle Blair was a big deal. She's 99.

She threw the first pitch at the brand new Women's Pro Baseball League. And I had little goosebumps and watery eyes watching all the tik toks…. 🥹

Maybelle played pro in 1948. Rockford Peaches: the real team behind A League of Their Own.

But then 1954. League folded. Zero pro baseball for women. For 70 years. 💔

An entire lifetime of no pro league. Little girls dreaming of playing pro ball with literally nowhere to go “when they grow up”.

No Olympics, no Pro league. Not in Canada, not anywhere in the world. For 70 years.

This weekend, that ended. Finally. A long overdue new league officially launched. And Maybelle, one of the last living players from the original one, right there passing the torch.

History. 👀 Watching her stand on that field... circle closed. ❤️

Better yet :
⚾️ 11 countries represented in the league
🇨🇦 16 of those players are Canadian

Took me straight back to that summer. Second base. Rick beside me. I got to play that summer but not dream of anything more!

Girls today don't just get to play. Now they can also feel supported, be part of "their team" and even get to dream BIG. 💪

But at the 2028 Olympics, baseball will still be for men only.

Women get softball. And before anyone says they’re basically the same thing… They’re not. Sure, softball is its own wonderful sport.

But it is not women’s baseball.

Why did it take so long?
Should women’s baseball be in the Olympics too?
Tell me why. 👇⚾️

The Little Cacao Co. 🍫 Ross Chocolates Suzie Yorke Ezra CerezoThe Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean. Fair Trade. ❤️ Made in small batches 🍫🫘 With love and care 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. Canadian and Women's Owned. CQCC Certified 🌈.

08/01/2026

Well, well, well: that struck a nerve yesterday 👀

For 10 years here on LinkedIn, I’ve been "Smiling Suzie". Lifting people up. Rising above. Staying positive. 🙂

Problems? NP, I double down, suck it up, fix them and next.

Partly because I'm a hardcore fighter of a Gen X. Partly because my childhood instilled a ton of resilience in me. And partly because I'm a fixer (not a whiner).

So yesterday was unusual: I shared the real stuff behind "I love what I'm building, but I sure don't love my job right now."

Because being a quasi-solopreneur, with a super-small team, now owning a small factory, early in a Start-up Lifecycle (relatively), is TOUGH... and "not always fun". 😅

Before the millions in Revenue pour in, before you can hire a large team, before vendors rush to get your business, before the big, brand-building campaigns.

We see it every day in our Founders Helping Founders -Suzie group daily:
➡️ More surprise deductions!!
➡️ They cancelled the PO....
➡️ We called and emailed 40 times...still nothing
➡️ The vendor messed up... yet blaming us of course 🙃
➡️ They said they'd list us... but got bumped..
➡️ We're out of money. Again..

CPG start-ups. The list goes on.

Every year, new CPG Founders in Canada get excited about a product idea and take the leap.

Also, more than many quietly disappear.

The gap between a great idea and a sustainable brand and business is bigger than anyone tells you (my son had an idea 3 years ago.. I said "WAIT")

Nope, we can't spend every day dumping on LinkedIn as that won't build the company.

But pretending it's all glorious doesn't help anyone either 🙅‍♀️

Part of the solution is Community. This work gets lonely. My tips :

🫶 Join a founder group, ideally a free one. Find people who'll tell you the truth, share what they know and answer when everything hits the fan.

🫶 We also need the Triple support:
1️⃣ 🇨🇦 Retailers supporting Made-in-Canada and Canadian-owned brands🇨🇦
2️⃣ 🇨🇦 Consumers deliberately buying Canadian 🇨🇦
3️⃣ 🇨🇦 Funding and government programs small Canadian businesses can actually access and use🇨🇦

That little edge matters. 🇨🇦 Especially as tariffs shut down US scale and Revenues.

So today, on this gorgeous Ontario long weekend, I'm taking the small win that mattered this week: people on the internet made me feel less alone in the unglamorous part of being a CPG founder. 🙌

Thank you.

Whatever you're quietly grinding through, I hope you get a real day off too. ☀️

Happy long weekend, Ontario. 🇨🇦 Enjoy the three days! Drop a smile. 🙂

The Little Cacao Co. Ross Chocolates
The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean. 🥣 Diabetic Friendly. 🥑 Keto Friendly. 🙌 Human Friendly. 👨‍🌾 Farmer Friendly. 🌎 Planet Friendly. 🫘 Fair Trade. 🍫 ❤️ Made in small batches with love and care. 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. 👩 Canadian and Women's Owned. 🌈 CQCC Certified.

07/31/2026

Should I actually post my real answer, or just fake it on the internet?

People ask me how I am. "All good," I say.

Not entirely true. I love what I'm building. I don't love my job right now.

Here goes. Two reasons.

🍫 First, integration and back-office grunt work.
Eight months drowning in it.. so far away from my Super Power of Brand Building. Hate every minute I need to hand-hold this. But I do or not done.. Sigh.

➡️ Buying a factory
➡️ Fishbowl integration...
➡️ New QuickBooks and nothing synchs! Again and again! No month-end P&Ls.. again!!
➡️ Integrating a 30-year-old Heritage brand
➡️ Forms. More forms. Calls. Portals. Delays. Runarounds. Nothing works the first time. You just suck it up and follow up for the 30th time. Literally 50 emails to change a bank account. Not kidding.

Ugh. 😫 Everything feels "so hard" right now.

Yeah, I'm whining.
Our CPG Founders' jobs are not "glorious" often. Especially at the beginning anyway.

🍫 Second, harder to admit: no hero, fast-turning SKUs yet.
Our vitamins and pure chocolate bars with protein are innovative, first to market, yet, niche and early. Need "education", education takes time. Awareness & Trial. Ross is heritage, yet has the same issues of awareness.

I want lightning-fast HERO SKUs that turn, and we light up the META, Amazon and DTC ads. Go go and fuel more growth.

So I spent the last 6 months deep back into my 4 Ps.

What's missing? What aren't we seeing? What do consumers want? The market need? Retailer feedback. Consumer feedback. Concept research. SEO analysis. Amazon research. Round I. Round II. Round III. Hit a wall, go back. More questions.

Not the exhilarating part of building a brand. I've been growing brands for 35 years, so I'm not new to this.

And with Love Good Fats, our first two SKUs were lightning in a bottle. #1 and #2 in the natural-bar category at Canada's biggest banners. Overnight. Pure joy. 🙌 $8 million in 12 months. We hired a whole team. Launched 16 more SKUs. Then $47 million the next 12. Phenomenal energy.

But that was the exception.

The norm is the 10-year "overnight success." Tiny purchase orders. Small e-commerce days with crappy ROAS. Fixed costs all over. Grind.

Well, well, well. The work paid off: we're launching 8 new skus including our 4 HERO skus in pure chocolate bars.
Yes, today, listing packages go out. 📦 ✨

Building The Little Cacao Co.from a small brand with a grand vision to disrupt chocolate to, well, now disrupt chocolate.
Ever faked an “I’m good” when the real answer was “No, not really. Not right now”? What was really going on?

The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean. 🥣 Diabetic Friendly. 🥑 Keto Friendly. 🙌 Human Friendly. 👨‍🌾 Farmer Friendly. 🌎 Planet Friendly. 🫘 Fair Trade. 🍫 Made in small batches. ❤️ With love and care. 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. 👩 Canadian and Women's Owned. 🌈 CQCC Certified.
Ross ChocolatesRoss Chocolates Ezra Cerezo

07/28/2026

What the heck is a "Spectra," and why is it filled with chocolate? 🫘

Well, well, well... welcome to our R&D kitchen. 🍫

For the past four weeks, our team has been go, go, go, formulating and developing recipes for a potential client.
And they're loving the samples. In fact, they want even more options now.

Woot! 🎉
Creamy. Delicious. Organic. Fair trade. No alkali-soaking, i.e., never Dutch-processed.

And yes, even some FUNCTIONAL chocolate, with added Protein, Pre-biotic Fibre, Adaptogens of course, and a few other super-secret wicked ingredients. 🔥

I'm becoming pretty darn good at infusing chocolate with the right functional ingredients while also enhancing the indulgent experience that makes chocolate chocolate.
A few years ago, I had a joint venture in Ecuador. The R&D team had already worked on more than 500 recipes. And since then, I've worked with three additional facilities on more than 500 others.

Yup. More than 1,000 recipes, and still counting. ✅

OK, back to the samples: Someone asked me: "How do you actually make these samples by hand?"
Here's how 👇
1️⃣ We formulate. That's Secret Weapon number one. Create something that tastes truly indulgent while delivering on the specs and macros. Both an art and a science.
2️⃣ We hit the kitchen. Measure, measure, measure. Then mix, mix, mix.
3️⃣ We obsess over the ingredients. You simply cannot make extraordinary chocolate from "ordinary" ingredients.
4️⃣ Into the Spectra it goes. Technically, it's a STONE-MELANGER. Two granite wheels slowly grind, mix and refine the ingredients until they become silky, smooth chocolate. It runs for at least 24 hours. 🔥
Tiny changes make a BIG difference. A little more refining time, or a small change in temperature or ingredients, can alter the flavour, texture, aroma and flow.
5️⃣ Then we Temper. We carefully heat and cool the chocolate to create the right cocoa-butter crystal structure.
That's what gives properly tempered chocolate its beautiful shine, satisfying snap and smooth melt.
6️⃣ Mould it. Cool it. Super easy peasy part.
Finally, we taste. 🍫 This is where chocolate becomes a full sensory experience.
First, you hear that beautiful, clean snap. Then the chocolate touches your tongue and begins to melt close to body temperature. The cocoa butter releases the flavour and aromatic compounds that were locked inside. oh so Melt-in-your-mouth delicious!
Your turn. 👇 If you could create your own functional chocolate, what ingredient would you add?

The Little Cacao Co. Ross Chocolatesss Chocolates The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean. 🥣 Diabetic Friendly. 🥑 Keto Friendly. 🙌 Human Friendly. 👨‍🌾 Farmer Friendly. 🌎 Planet Friendly. 🫘 Fair Trade. 🍫 Made in small batches. ❤️ With love and care. 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. 👩 Canadian and Women's Owned. 🌈 CQCC Certified. Ezra CerezoEzra Cerezo

07/27/2026

The SuperFood Cacao Bean Series #4 🍫🫘

I thought the "most important" part was over once the beans were grown, picked and left the farm.

No, no, no! I was wrong.

The key to flavour and taste is, in large part, what happens AFTER the beans are picked.

So after Otto and Jenny's farm, we drove to a small community fermentation centre to meet Neil. He spends his days overseeing one of the most important parts of making great chocolate.

First: Fermentation.

Simple. Old wooden boxes and burlap sacks. That's it?

Neil walked me through it.

The freshly picked beans, still covered in that sweet white pulp, go into wooden boxes. They're layered with burlap sacks, at least two or three deep, to trap the heat.
Then... you wait. For five days.

Every single day, someone comes and stirs the beans. Moving them from one box to the next. Checking the temperature.

The temperature is key! "How hot does it actually get in there?" I asked. "Up to 50 degrees." I wasn't expecting that. It's basically cooking itself from the inside.

Then Neil told me something that completely surprised me: This is where the beans develop much of their flavour.

Even before they're dried, roasted or conched. Right here. In the simple wooden box.

If fermentation isn't done properly, many manufacturers try to correct the flavour later by soaking the beans in alkali. Sure, it's faster.

But it destroys over 80% of the naturally occurring flavanols that make the SuperFood cacao bean such a nutritional powerhouse, bursting with antioxidants.

Yes, chocolate can be good for you! (Dark chocolate, no sugar added and never soaked in alkali.) And so yes, chocolate can absolutely be healthy.

I started to understand why the sourcing and the processing of cacao beans create such a difference... not only in taste, but also in their nutritional value. ❤️

👇 **What's your favourite fermented food?**
🧀 Cheese?
🍞 Sourdough?
🥬 Kimchi?
🥒 Pickles?
🍷 Wine?

=> Tag someone who'd be surprised to learn that the key to tasty chocolate is fermentation🍫
The Little Cacao Co.e Ross Chocolates Suzie Yorke Ezra Cerezo
The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean. Fair Trade. ❤️ Made in small batches 🍫🫘 With love and care 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. Canadian and Women's Owned. CQCC Certified. 🌈

07/26/2026

The SuperFood Cacao Bean Series #3 🍫🫘

I thought I was going to visit a cacao farm. I was wrong.

After landing in Manta, we drove almost three hours into the heart of the farms and spent the day with Otto and Jenny.

They've been growing cacao in the backyard of their home for over 45 years.

When we pulled into their driveway, I was looking for rows and rows of cacao trees. You know... "a farm"? no? 🌱
Instead, I saw their home. Where they raised their two kids (who recently moved out). A few small buildings. Four dogs running around. Ducks. Chickens. And fruits and flowers everywhere.

Then Otto started walking. "Here's our avocado tree" (in Spanish ofc)

A few steps later, mango, coconuts, bananas, plantains, lemons, oranges, mandarins and massive grapefruits, watermelon and the best, purple peanuts! 💜🥜

Every few steps there was something new to discover.

Then he'd point to another cacao tree, almost hidden among everything else.

This was the cacao farm. ❤️

Not neat rows, or giant fields.

Just an incredible "backyard" garden where cacao grows alongside 18 different fruits, flowers and towering trees.

Cacao naturally grows beneath taller trees. The shade protects it, while the surrounding plants create a rich ecosystem where cacao thrives.

It completely changed what I thought a cacao farm looked like.

There are certainly larger commercial cacao farms. But the small family farms I visited looked nothing like I had imagined.
Quick question... 👇

Before reading this, did you picture neat rows of cacao trees...
Or something completely different?
The Little Cacao Co. Ross Chocolatess Ezra Cerezo
The Extraordinary Goodness of the SuperFood Cacao Bean. Fair Trade. ❤️ Made in small batches 🍫🫘 With love and care 🇨🇦 Made in Canada. Canadian and Women's Owned. CQCC Certified

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