The Grenada Chocolate Company Ltd. was founded in 1999 with the idea of creating an Organic Cocoa Farmers' Cooperative. We produce high quality Organic dark chocolate in Grenada with our world famous cocoa beans. Our factory is nestled in lush cocoa groves in Grenada's pristine rainforest.
Our award-winning organic dark chocolate has the wonderful complex flavor of Grenada's fine-flavored organic cocoa beans, processed carefully in small batches. Producing chocolate right where the cocoa grows allows us to do our own fermenting which gives us a real advantage in creating the finest, most complex taste possible from the beans. We use our own extracted cocoa butter in our chocolate also from Grenada's fine-flavored cocoa. This brings in a luxurious extra richness and chocolaty flavor. Our chocolate has a truly deep and rich flavor.
We now have over 150 acres of organic cocoa farms in our cooperative and operate our own cocoa fermentry, located one mile from our little factory. This assures that we perform every activity involved in the production of our chocolate, from the planting and growing of the cocoa trees to the fermenting of the fresh cocoa beans to the processing of our fine dark chocolate. We grow our cocoa totally naturally without the use of any chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers and have been Certified Organic.
Our sugar is a fine organic raw sugar produced and milled by an organic growers' cooperative in Paraguy.
Whole organic vanilla beans grown biodynamically in Costa Rica provide our "dash" of vanilla.
Organic soy lecithin is used as emulsifier in extremely small amounts.
We are one of the only small-scale chocolate-makers producing fine chocolate where the cocoa grows. Because small batch chocolate-making is very rare, we had to create our own processing methods, desigining our own machines and refurbishing antique equipment to meet the requirements of our unique situation. Most of our machines are based in design on those of the early 1900's, a time when quality had precedence over quantity in chocolate-making. Because we care about our environment, we use solar-electric energy to power our machines.
The original impetus and principle of our cooperative company is to revolutionize the cocoa-chocolate system that typically keeps cocoa production separate from chocolate-making and therefore takes advantage of cocoa farmers.We believe that the cocoa farmers should benefit as much as the chocolate-makers.
We won the Academy of Chocolate's 2008 Silver Metal for the Best Organic Chocolate in the world! Check it
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See feature article about us in the London Guardian newspaper,"probably the best chocolate in the world"!
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Listen to an interesting radio show with interview with Mott Green, founder, on socially resposible cocoa and chocolate production
Read new article about our history in Salon On-line Magazine
Listen to Human Beans , Our new calypso song about sustainability and fairness in cocoa and chocolate production (music by Akima Paul, lyrics by Mott Green and Akima Paul, arranged by Paul Thomas at Mt. Zion studios)
Here's our new Smilo Cocoa Powder radio ad in Grenada
See an article about our chocolate as a dessert in The London Times Sunday magazine
Watch the short movie about The Grenada Chocolate Company project by Eti Pelig called Radical Chocolate
Check out our featured article in Home Power Magazine, "Solar-Powered Chocolate Factory"
a an early newspaper article about us from Oregon, USA
and a an early magazine article by GrenadaChocolate's co-founder,