Our mission is to offer the highest quality Cacao available on the market for both health and healing uses - what we call Ceremonial Grade Cacao.
We ensure this by using a wild/native
variety that is traditionally grown and hand-prepared by indigenous
Mayan people in the Lake
Atitlan region of Guatemala. This is the variety and preparation method that the ancient Mayans used to ensure full potency. To maintain this quality, we are a small-scale, personal operation with a direct relationship to our source, which makes each batch of Cacao unique.
Our Cacao is grown and processed without any chemicals and
the Mayan workers, primarily women, receive fair pay for their work.
It is available at retail locations in
Massachusetts and online as well as through the events that we facilitate. Enjoy this Cacao as a delicious treat or use it to assist
you on your path of inner awareness.
Cacao is a fruit whose seeds are the basis of chocolate. The
word Cacao, pronounced KA-COW, is the English phonetic version of the Mayan
word for the fruit. We sell these whole seeds in both bean form as well as
ground into block form.
Chocolate is widely known as an
aphrodisiac and this understanding of how it opens our hearts is by no means
new. The Aztecs and other Mesoamerican peoples of Central America in the
pre-Columbian era often spoke of Cacao as ‘yollotl, eztli’, meaning
"heart, blood". Western science reinforced this by giving it the
scientific name Theobroma Cacao, which
means “The food of the Gods” - and what else would the food of the Gods be but
love? Hence the name of our company, Heart Blood Cacao.
Our website contains lots of great info on Cacao, including
ceremonial use, health benefits and recipes for yummy treats. We are much
indebted to our friend Keith, whose years of research and work with Cacao provide
much of the content for this site.
