Featured Promotion
Captain’s Chocolate has graciously sponsored me with a 15% discount, DEEPDIVE15, for my followers. Captain’s works directly with farmers and tests for no lead in their cacao. When you buy from Captain’s Chocolate, you’re supporting the indigenous families of Costa Rica. Captain’s is a micro-business that has extremely high-quality cacao but lacks the means to compete with conglomerates. They are famous for their cacao brew, a great alternative to coffee. Click here to read my deep dive on them.
Latest Articles & Deep Dives
Embue Cacao: Good Chocolate, Questionable Company
Embue Cacao on paper has a lot of great qualities but some unforgivable. They are apart of a couple non-profits and they promote connecting with cacao in a spiritual manner. They have one major glaring issue that does not sit well with me. Embue maliciously downplays the importance of Prop 65 to their customers about the dangers of their the heavy metal content in their chocolate, of which is, in my opinion, dangerously high.
Hu Chocolate: Behind The Chocolate
Hu Chocolate is one of the best examples of a terrible company that hits all the trending buzzwords in organic chocolate and renders their meanings useless (just look at that packaging). They test high in heavy metals and will not publicly post their results, they greenwash their customers about it, and there’s no mention of how and where they source their chocolate from. Hu Chocolate was started by wealthy owners that wanted to own a business and they landed on chocolate. That’s about as deep as it goes.
Heavy Metal In Chocolate: Is it Safe?
Chocolate has gotten a bad reputation over the past couple of years, and deservedly so, about the concern of heavy metals. And this is a very valid concern. Many chocolate companies had significantly higher than safely consumable levels of lead and cadmium in them that you have been unknowingly consuming for most of your life. … Read more
Jouvay Chocolate: L.A. Burdick’s New Grenadian Company
Jouvay Chocolate is a very small company founded by Larry and Paula Burdick of the famous chocolate company, L.A. Burdick. Ethically sourced and handcrafted from Grenada, it’s hard to beat the story of Jouvay.
Is Teapigs Tea Good?
The content below contains affiliate links. If you purchase something using my links, I may earn affiliate commission. Commission allows me to continue upgrading the website and researching new products (I am a one person show and this takes an incredible amount of time to research). Introduction Teapigs is a tea company I came across … Read more
Moylings Organic Loose Leaf Tea
Moylings, formerly known as Little Moy, is a newly established (2021) organic clothing company for children that has also started venturing into organic loose leaf tea. Their products mostly consist of baby clothing and crocheted animals (among other accessories), and now organic loose leaf tea. I had the honor of meeting the owners, Swarna Mathan … Read more