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Raw Organic Cacao Powder is truly remarkable. From its chart busting antioxidant power, to its great taste, this is a food everyone should consider as a regular part of their diet. This amazing product is loaded with everything from vitamins and minerals to incredibly high levels of plant phenols, shown to offer numerous health benefits.
It's well known that cacao products offer great mood and energy boosting effects without risk to healthy individuals. Superedibles Raw Certified Organic Cacao Powder is also surprisingly high in dietary fiber.
- Antioxidant Powerhouse
- Minerals
- Vitamins
- Fiber
- Use in: Smoothies, Granola, Salad, Cereals. Dressings, Sauces. and Baking
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Storage and Consumption
- How Long Does Cacao Powder Last?
- At room temperature, Cacao powder can remain fresh for 3 years.
- How To Best Store Cacao Powder?
- To maximize shelf life keep cacao powder in an airtight bag or container in a cool and dry place.
Additional nutritional facts can be found here.
For many of these recipes you can include pineapple fruit, especially the core. It contains bromelain which enhances the absorption of quercetin and other nutrients.
Pudding: Mix Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder into Chia Gel made with Superedibles' Raw Organic Chia Seed. Add crushed fruits or nuts for a delicious and healthful pudding.
Chocolate Sauce: Blend Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder with gently warmed coconut or cocoa butter for a delicious chocolate sauce. Lavish the sauce over your favorite dish.
Raw Health Fudge: Add Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder to a blender with nuts, coconut oil, coconut meat, a little sweetener (raw honey, coconut sugar, coconut nectar or yacon syrup)and a pinch of pink Himalayan salt. Pulse ingredients together and form into a mold. Cut into pieces for a fudge-like confection.
Super Salad: Place ½ ripe avocado and juice of ½ lemon into a bowl. Mash together. Add 1 teaspoon Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder, ½ teaspoon Superedibles Raw Organic Spirulina, ½ teaspoon Superedibles Organic Turmeric Powder and a pinch of pink Himalayan salt and blend together into a paste. Add additional lemon juice and your favorite olive or nut oil to reach desired consistency. Add your favorite salad greens, chopped mushrooms and Superedibles Organic Ground Black Pepper and toss well. Sprinkle Superedibles Raw Organic Hemp Seeds on top and enjoy a healthful meal.
Aztec Bubble Tea: In a tall glass, blend 12 ounces fresh cool water with two tablespoons Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder. Add 2 tablespoons Superedibles Raw Organic Chia Seed and stir well. After 15 minutes stir well and enjoy.
Cocoa Banana: Let a bunch of bananas get slightly overripe. Peel and dredge the bananas in Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder. Freeze the coated bananas individually. Makes a healthy snack.
Super Mole: Mole comes from the Aztec word molli, meaning concoction or stew. Make your custom concoction a raw version of mole for optimal nourishment. Start with a generous portion of Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder. Then choose from a palate of raw healthy ingredients such as various chilis, almonds, sesame seeds, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, raisins, tomato, garlic, onions, plantains, bananas, spices such as cumin, star anise, black pepper and cinnamon, chili seeds, tomatillos fresh herbs and natural salt. Grind your cacao powder and chosen ingredients together by hand or pulse them in a blender. You can save a little time by using nut butters or tahini instead of whole nuts and seeds. Slather over whatever your having to make it more nutritious and delicious. Serve with sliced ripe avocado or pineapple and lime wedges sprinkled with fresh chopped cilantro to freshen things up.
Mix Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder into cereals.
Mix Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder with nuts and fruits.
Blend Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder into peanut or nut butters.
What is Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder?
The well known secret to making really raw Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder.
All cacao, cocoa and chocolate products have a common origin – the cacao pod. The ripe pods are removed from the trees. Each pod holds several dozen seeds or beans. The pods are cut open and white pulpy seeds are removed from the skins of the pod. The beans are collected for fermenting and drying.
These are the first two stages in the process (fermenting and drying). It is during these stages that excessive heat can first be introduced into the process. Our processors ensure, through carefully designed and monitored procedures and equipment, that the cacao never exceeds 110 degrees Fahrenheit during any stage of it's processing or handling. This is to safeguard the delicate phytochemicals making it such an amazing food.
When the beans have reached the proper level of readiness, they are winnowed, removing the outer skin of the bean.
The beans are then broken into nibs – pieces of whole bean. The nibs can be used as snacks or ingredients in foods. The nibs are ground into chocolate liquor or cacao paste. These mechanical stages of reducing the bean to nib and then paste can also generate much heat and damage to the final product.
Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder is hand processed the old fashioned way, in small batches with large wooden pestles, to ensure there is no excessive heat generated. This is different than virtually all other cacao bean and nib grinding processes worldwide. At this stage, Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder is differentiated from well over 99% of the cacao, cocoa and chocolate products in the world because by this stage most other cacao products have been exposed to excessive heat several times.
The next process in creating Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder is the separation of the dry component of the paste from the cacao butter. The result of this is a hard "cake" and raw cacao butter. The cake is then simply pulverized into powder.
There are precious few sources on earth that execute the oil separation stage without generating excessive heat. The machinery that does this is proprietary as commercial presses generate excessive heat. Of the less than one percent of the planet's processors that can create raw organic nibs, our processors are, to our knowledge, extremely rare in their capabilities to then create raw powder and butter. Superedibles is delighted to be amongst the very few purveyors of this extremely rare and nutritionally superior product.
Superedibles' Raw Organic Cacao Powder is an opportunity for our customers to benefit from a pure unadulterated nutritional miracle. Please enjoy this amazing product and share your feedback with us.
Why RAW? Why do we put so much emphasis on our product being RAW? As with many foods, when heated above 118 degrees Fahrenheit, the important chemical constituents of cacao quickly begin to degrade. This affects most of the beneficial qualities described in these paragraphs. The following excerpt from a US government source is an illustration of the difference between RAW and roasted cacao products:
ORAC scores for the Top 10 Antioxidants Foods (per 100 grams)
1) Raw cocoa powder* 95,500
2) Raw cacao nibs* 62,100
3) Roasted cocoa powder 26,000
Source: US department of Agriculture/Journal of American Chemical Society
Simply put, one would need to ingest nearly four times the amount of powder from roasted beans as from RAW to get the equivalent antioxidant value. That is why we take extreme measures, and pay top dollar, for the best products. The least possible amount of damage is done to Superedibles Raw Organic Cacao Powder ensuring our customers the most antioxidant and bang for their buck.
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