Our Beginning
We are two sisters based in Dubai who couldn't find truly healthy chocolates despite our many travels. Delicious, there were many, but healthy? Not really. So together, with our then-sixty-eight-year-old diabetic mother, we traveled to the beautiful island of Mindanao, Philippines, to study the main ingredient of chocolate: cacao. We learned how to plant, prune, and harvest cacao trees and ferment their beans. On this trip, we became friends with farmers, agriculturists, and government workers who opened our eyes to the realities of cacao farming.
We are committed to health.
We are committed to the fine art of chocolate making and cocoa gastronomy.
We are committed to the community.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Health Food and Drinks are Not ‘luxurious’
We all know that exercise and proper diet are the foundation of a healthy body. We also all know the evil of consuming refined sugar and foods that contain much of it, and that includes the (so-called) chocolates in the grocery counters that give us so much comfort. Chocolates are VERY hard to resist. WE KNOW.
All our chocolate products are made from 100% natural ingredients, real cacao, palm oil-free, and with no preservatives. This explains the short shelf-life and limited production quantity. We strive to achieve the principle of ‘fewer but better’ ingredients. After all, healthy food is basically simple, including chocolates.
So, aside from using our hero ingredient, cacao, or cocoa, which comes from our own social agricultural enterprise, you will see from our product line and recipes that we use many superfood ingredients in our recipes. We prefer to use fruit, coconut sugar, and dates as natural sweeteners, but when we cannot avoid the use of sweet poison, also known as refined sugar, we use it very minimally. We are committed to ensuring that each bite may either relieve stress, enhance mood, serve as antioxidants, boost energy, improve the immune system, be anti-inflammatory, mildly relieve pain, enhance vitality, improve gut flora, or promote heart health. We are hard-core fans of antioxidants, fibers, grains, dates, Moringa, Oleic acid (hello, olive oil), and other ancient healing ingredients, and this is reflected in our recipes. They were created primarily from a health viewpoint, which sets us far apart from other confectioners and chocolate makers. Every chocolate is made to score low in both the GI index and GL index.