Fortunato Quinoa & Chia Crunch 47% Dark Milk Chocolate Bar
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- Description
- About Fortunato
- Ingredients
Fortunato Quinoa & Chia Crunch 47% Dark Milk Chocolate Bar
We're using our 47% dark milk chocolate for this one. In the future, we may offer a dark chocolate version as well.
But in the name of full disclosure, I have to tell you frankly that this bar is more delicious with the 47% dark milk chocolate.
In general, our goal is to go for products that are as delicious as they can be, while still using high quality ingredients.
Our cacao is organically grown, and we are using organic quinoa and chia seeds as well.
We've been dancing around a product like this for a while, but the hang up has always been a good, reliable source of toasted organic quinoa.
One of our favorite distributors solved that for us and that gave us access to all the necessary ingredients to make this lovely bar a reality.
To imagine what this bar is like, start by thinking of a Nestle Crunch bar. That is the texture.
You get that beautiful crunch from the toasted quinoa and Javier doesn't pack it in lightly. There is a lot of quinoa in there.
In all humility, I do believe that our 47% dark milk chocolate is far superior to the milk chocolate used in the Nestle Crunch bar.
Also, quinoa has such a rich, creamy, earthy flavor in its own right, and that beats out the flavorless, sugary, rice puffs used by the crunch bar.
If it was just chocolate and quinoa on its own, this would be a great product.
However, our chocolatier Javier did not stop there.
He added chia. This struck me as interesting.
Of course, it is on theme, because both the chia and the quinoa are Peruvian products.
This gives us Peruvian cacao, Peruvian chia, and Peruvian quinoa all in one place. There is good continuity to it.
But how would the chia taste?
Honestly, at least to my mind, the chia is a stroke of genius. To me, the chia tastes of herbs, like a chamomile.
I've always loved herbs in chocolate. The combination is so soothing and comforting.
I like the small hard texture of chia too.
Chia in chocolate. Who knew?
Altogether, you have a very Peruvian themed product.
You get the rich and creamy, but still very cacao forward milk chocolate with the 47% dark milk, then you get the earthy toast from the quinoa, and then the herbal from the chia.
As always, we try hard to keep our products very affordable when compared to products of lesser quality that you might buy from the grocery store.
We buy cacao direct from about 500 small cacao farm families in northern Peru.
We pay around 10 times the price premiums required by FairTrade.
We've been doing that voluntarily for a very, very long time now, around 15 years.
The reason we can do that while still offering fair prices is because we cut out middlemen.
We buy cacao direct, make our own products, and sell direct.
Our products are not available in any shops but our own, and we don't work through any distributors.
This allows us to cut out middlemen and pass along the savings.
The Quinoa & Chia crunch bar comes with two, three-ounce bars in a single package.
The price is $9.99.
As always, we offer a 100% money back guarantee on all of our products.
We do not guarantee that your chocolate won't show up melted though, especially as the weather gets hotter in some places.
But if you try the product and simply don't like it, we'll give you your money back, no questions asked.
All of our products come with a 100% unconditional, no questions asked, money back guarantee. If you are unhappy for any reason, just send us an email and ask for a full refund.
Fortunato Chocolate is known for its rich fruit and nutty flavors, floral aroma, smooth texture, and lack of bitterness.
The Pure Naçional trees that grow the cacao used in our chocolate have the distinction of being the oldest, rarest, and most sought after in the world. So rare in fact, that they were thought to be extinct by the early 20th century, wiped out by disease. The happenstance discovery in a remote valley of the northern Peruvian jungle by Dan Pearson and Brian Horsley would eventually lead the founding of Fortunato No. 4 and the reintroduction of the world to this exquisite tasting chocolate.
All of our confections are made by hand in our chocolate kitchen in Issaquah, WA.
The amount of chocolate we have available for the general public is in limited supply due to demand from pastry chefs and chocolatiers. If you are a chocolate lover, don't hesitate!
- 47% Fortunato No. 4 Dark Milk Chocolate
- Organically grown cacao and cocoa butter - 47.36%
- Whole milk - 21.02%
- Cane sugar - 31.51%
- Soy lecithin - .01%
- Vanilla - .01%
- Organic Chia Seeds
- Organic Puffed Quinoa
Description
Fortunato Quinoa & Chia Crunch 47% Dark Milk Chocolate Bar
We're using our 47% dark milk chocolate for this one. In the future, we may offer a dark chocolate version as well.
But in the name of full disclosure, I have to tell you frankly that this bar is more delicious with the 47% dark milk chocolate.
In general, our goal is to go for products that are as delicious as they can be, while still using high quality ingredients.
Our cacao is organically grown, and we are using organic quinoa and chia seeds as well.
We've been dancing around a product like this for a while, but the hang up has always been a good, reliable source of toasted organic quinoa.
One of our favorite distributors solved that for us and that gave us access to all the necessary ingredients to make this lovely bar a reality.
To imagine what this bar is like, start by thinking of a Nestle Crunch bar. That is the texture.
You get that beautiful crunch from the toasted quinoa and Javier doesn't pack it in lightly. There is a lot of quinoa in there.
In all humility, I do believe that our 47% dark milk chocolate is far superior to the milk chocolate used in the Nestle Crunch bar.
Also, quinoa has such a rich, creamy, earthy flavor in its own right, and that beats out the flavorless, sugary, rice puffs used by the crunch bar.
If it was just chocolate and quinoa on its own, this would be a great product.
However, our chocolatier Javier did not stop there.
He added chia. This struck me as interesting.
Of course, it is on theme, because both the chia and the quinoa are Peruvian products.
This gives us Peruvian cacao, Peruvian chia, and Peruvian quinoa all in one place. There is good continuity to it.
But how would the chia taste?
Honestly, at least to my mind, the chia is a stroke of genius. To me, the chia tastes of herbs, like a chamomile.
I've always loved herbs in chocolate. The combination is so soothing and comforting.
I like the small hard texture of chia too.
Chia in chocolate. Who knew?
Altogether, you have a very Peruvian themed product.
You get the rich and creamy, but still very cacao forward milk chocolate with the 47% dark milk, then you get the earthy toast from the quinoa, and then the herbal from the chia.
As always, we try hard to keep our products very affordable when compared to products of lesser quality that you might buy from the grocery store.
We buy cacao direct from about 500 small cacao farm families in northern Peru.
We pay around 10 times the price premiums required by FairTrade.
We've been doing that voluntarily for a very, very long time now, around 15 years.
The reason we can do that while still offering fair prices is because we cut out middlemen.
We buy cacao direct, make our own products, and sell direct.
Our products are not available in any shops but our own, and we don't work through any distributors.
This allows us to cut out middlemen and pass along the savings.
The Quinoa & Chia crunch bar comes with two, three-ounce bars in a single package.
The price is $9.99.
As always, we offer a 100% money back guarantee on all of our products.
We do not guarantee that your chocolate won't show up melted though, especially as the weather gets hotter in some places.
But if you try the product and simply don't like it, we'll give you your money back, no questions asked.
All of our products come with a 100% unconditional, no questions asked, money back guarantee. If you are unhappy for any reason, just send us an email and ask for a full refund.
About Fortunato
Fortunato Chocolate is known for its rich fruit and nutty flavors, floral aroma, smooth texture, and lack of bitterness.
The Pure Naçional trees that grow the cacao used in our chocolate have the distinction of being the oldest, rarest, and most sought after in the world. So rare in fact, that they were thought to be extinct by the early 20th century, wiped out by disease. The happenstance discovery in a remote valley of the northern Peruvian jungle by Dan Pearson and Brian Horsley would eventually lead the founding of Fortunato No. 4 and the reintroduction of the world to this exquisite tasting chocolate.
All of our confections are made by hand in our chocolate kitchen in Issaquah, WA.
The amount of chocolate we have available for the general public is in limited supply due to demand from pastry chefs and chocolatiers. If you are a chocolate lover, don't hesitate!
Ingredients
- 47% Fortunato No. 4 Dark Milk Chocolate
- Organically grown cacao and cocoa butter - 47.36%
- Whole milk - 21.02%
- Cane sugar - 31.51%
- Soy lecithin - .01%
- Vanilla - .01%
- Organic Chia Seeds
- Organic Puffed Quinoa