Chocolate of the Day
Ora Cacao
Tantric Rose Blossom, Enhanced Ceremonial Cacao
Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28 g.) in total packet
Calories: "140 calories in 25 discs (23 g.)" - One serving
Cost: $N/A - gift from family
Purchased from: N/A - gift from family (Thank you Megan!)
Welcome to Day #8 of Chocolate and Flowers Theme Week; and Day #1 of Chocolate and Orange Theme Week.
Today's "Tantric Blossom Cacao, Enhanced Ceremonial Cacao" was from Ora Cacao (Graton, CA). The maker (Jonas Ketterle, also founder of Firefly Chocolate), has created a variety of, unsweetened, bean-to-bar, drinking/sipping chocolate flavors, including several with floral or spice inclusions.
Aroma notes for this Organic drinking chocolate (prepared with hot water) included: dark chocolate (authentic fermented cacao); subtle fruit (citrus (orange); stone fruit and berry); floral (rose); very faint mellow wood/nut; and herbs (damiana, very faint licorice).
Texture for this prepared blend included a satisfying, thick, warm drinking chocolate with a very slight granularity in my throat, at the very end. (Note: a blender is suggested in the preparatory steps to make this cacao beverage more velvety smooth and slightly frothy.)
I enjoyed the authentic, relatively subtle, citrus, rose and herbal flavor inclusions, and the authentic and balanced cacao aroma and flavor notes. This cacao had medium acidity and relatively low bitterness.
It tasted like relatively high-quality cacao, and was not alkalized or over-roasted. (It tasted like it was made with un-roasted or lightly roasted cacao to preserve health benefits and flavors.)
I appreciated that this was unsweetened so I could add honey or other sweetener, or not. (I would suggest tasting this without sweetener first to better detect/enjoy the aroma and flavor nuances.)
I liked that this was easy to prepare. And the small chocolate discs made it easy to divide into portions. I also liked that Ora included the following information: "33 g. of Caffeine & 196 mg. of Theobromine" on the package.
*Ingredients: Cacao Beans*, Pink Rose Petals*, Orange Peel*, Damiana*, Licorice*. (* = Organic)
Allergen-related information: Manufactured in a facility that processes tree nuts (Almond, Cashew, Coconut)
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