Write: Monica Uriel. Journalist
santiago peralta, Founder of boyfriend, recognized as the best chocolate bar in the world by numerous awards. This company is fighting a battle to save the world cocoa gene bank.
At the moment Ecuador, the world's largest cocoa producer, has made boyfriend in the Latin American leader in 100% organic chocolate and made in the place of origin. Also with cocoa from direct trade.
Pacari chocolate, the most awarded
With 207 awards received in 6 years is already the most awarded company in the world. "They are prizes for origin, good sense, sustainability, justice and equanimity," he says. Peralta a Large products.
Peralta defends that “the consumer must buy cocoa made at origin. If there is only cocoa of slavery that comes from Ghana, Ivory Coast or Indonesia where farmers are not sustainable, they are slaves ”. "If we don't do something to save the Latin American cocoa - he adds -, we will not have genetic material when plagues come ”.
In the last 16 years, the world cocoa bank has already been reduced by 20%, and 60% of it is in Ecuador.
Pacari manufacturing process
This visionary wanted to dedicate himself to something organic and started by making the world's first organic flowers. After what happened to cocoa with the aim of putting Ecuador "On the map of high-quality producers."
In the Ecuadorian zone, “the farmers did not know how to live off cocoa. So we started paying them double and we got 3.500 families and 20.000 people to change their lives for the better and not emigrate to other countries in search of a better future. Now they can live off the field ”. In Ecuador more than 100.000 families live off cocoa.
boyfriend in Quichua, the indigenous language of Ecuador, means "nature" -. Currently has 45 types of chocolate from 60% cocoa from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
In addition, boyfriend is the only chocolate company in the world that works with biodynamic cocoa. It uses South American ingredients in its bars, such as pink salt from maras. Salt, like cocoa, were formerly coins.
Perfect to drink with whiskey, rum or Pedro Ximènez, "it has the flavor of those who sweat cocoa." He was world champion in 2012. It pairs very well with pink cava, which Muslims adore, or lemon verbena. Now, he is the current world champion, to drink with Andean mint, uvillas or Chilean merkén.
The next flavors will be orange, lemon, cardamom, sweet pepper and jasmine
This company owns online sales and boyfriend markets its chocolate in 47 countries around the world. However, it is also in physical stores. It is located in Ecuador in Supermaxi or in Peru in Cencosud and Wong. Also in Colombia in Jumbo and in Chile in Cruz Verde, in addition to Jumbo. In Spain at El Corte Inglés and Carrefour.
