GRAN NATIVO 76%

This GRAN NATIVO chocolate is made with a cocoa bean that comes from northern Peru. It was one of our favorites from our very beginnings at PLAQ and we went to its land!

It is very surprising because it is not at all cocoa-like. Some people even think (blindly) that it's milk chocolate.

In any case it appeals to those who don't like the strength that dark chocolate can have.

At PLAQ, we like to say that it’s a fruit juice! Very tangy, it has notes of passion fruit then apricot and brown sugar.

Citrus and passion fruit. Flower honey. Panela sugar (rapadura). Silky and long in the mouth.

2 INGREDIENTS. NOTHING ELSE.

Gran Nativo organic cocoa beans from Piura Peru (76%) and unrefined organic cane sugar from the state of São Paulo Brazil (24%). Without lecithin. Without cocoa butter.

It is said that Peruvian cocoa is one of the finest in the world, Gran Nativo and its incomparable range of aromas are proof of this.

This cocoa develops all its flavors in the Piura region, whose name derives from the word “Piruha” which means “abundance”. A bounty of so-called white beans, among the rarest and finest in the world, which give Gran Nativo its distinctive taste: fruity, sweet, without bitterness. Its real name is Piura Blanco. We have chosen to keep the name "Gran Nativo", in memory of our partner Luis Mancini. He was the first to select these exceptional beans from the Norandino cooperative and to import them to Europe. We had the chance to meet him and visit the cooperative with him in 2019.

Today, Original Beans and Cacao Latitude have taken over in the villages of La Pareja and Loma Larga. The two villages are part of the Andanjo Community, as is the 2,800 hectare dry forest from which the beans come.

Gran Nativo cocoa takes root among fruit trees in an ecosystem made up of lemon and mango trees. This cocoa owes its particular aromas to the dry and arid climate of the Amazon rainforest and the high irrigation of the Piura region, also known for its rice fields. Gran Nativo offers a unique and typical aroma: sweet and long on the palate, with hints of lemon and passion fruit.

Each bag delivered is individually transformed into chocolate in the Bean To Bar philosophy, in a "micro batch", in order to stay as close as possible to the aromatic specificities which can vary from one batch to another.

The beans are tasted, sorted, roasted at low temperature, mixed with unrefined cane sugar, stone-conched for 3 days before ripening for 3 weeks. The pure milk chocolate thus obtained will then be melted to be molded and packaged into bars.

Weight: 60g

Price per kilo: €191.67/kg

Nutritional values ​​per 100g = Energy: 2431 kJ / 540 kcal, Fat: 38.7g (including saturated fatty acids: 23.2g), Carbohydrates: 30.1g (including sugars: 26.1g), Dietary fiber: 25.5g , Protein 12.2g, Salt: <0.001g.