Felchlin Chocolate
Single-Sourced Heirloom Cacao Beans
Sharing my favorite chocolate and chocolate research with you today…
In summary, look for heirloom cacao beans that are dried on site, not shipped damp. Chocolate’s natural cacao butter must not be substituted with cheap soy lecithin.
I started researching chocolate when US soy started to bother my stomach. It turns out this cheap soy is in everything from chocolate to supplements.
I post this in hopes that you will buy it, too, so the company will continue to carry it!
This super high-quality chocolate is much more satisfying to the palate than the soy lecithin kind.
Tasty goodness is the key to satiety. You shouldn’t feel hungry. If you do, something is missing/wrong. We are hungry because we need something. For example, we might not need those corn chips per se, but the body is likely desperate for the authentic salt (not the stripped, bleached kind) and minerals.
It ends up being cheaper than buying small bits of chocolate, plus it was packed directly at the manufacturer. We avoid food that is imported and re-packed due to potential grubbiness.
US soy has been altered. Not the GMO alteration. This happened decades ago. I realized the USDA was boasting of improved “highest protein soy,” a phrase that sent me off reading papers from the 1950s. When soy “bothered my stomach…and other parts,” it was odd because I had just spent some months in Japan, where the soy food was deliciously fine for me. I tried US organic soy. Then I tried fermenting it. Then I gave up after a few months.
To shorten the story, that is why I searched for soy-free chocolate. It turns out that cacao butter is very valuable, so chocolate makers pull it off the cacao bean to sell separately. Adding cheap soy lecithin is, well, super cheap.
For all of you who are breastfeeding, remember that even a little soy (as in many chocolates, even the lux brands) can bother your infant. If you get any breakouts at all, even the tiniest pimple on your backside, that is a sign to hunt down the nasty stuff hidden in your foods. Sometimes, it isn’t even in the food per se, it is in the pesticides (citrus!).
I don’t get a commission here, but I really want the importers at World Wide Chocolate to continue to carry my favorite Felchlin Bolivia 68% dark heirloom bean chocolate! We order the 2 kg bags because they are factory packed and sealed in Switzerland.