• Raw, Organic: This is a 100% raw product that is certified organic by Skal International.
• Criollo Variety: Our beans come from a non-hybrid ancient Criollo variety of cacao. Criollo beans are the most delicate and prized beans produced and they represent an astonishing 1% of the world mass production. This variety is often referred to as the "King of Cacao." They are generally priced far higher on the international cacao market and are usually blended with other beans to create a more economic price and a less exotic flavor. The highest quality chocolate often has the highest percentage of Criollo cacao in its composition.
• Low Microbe Count: Because of the exceptional quality and standards under which these beans are processed, any foreign microbe/bacteria activity is virtually nonexistent on the skin and inner nib. This is an extraordinary feat considering that cacao beans come from a moist and slimy fruit grown in the hot jungle. No other cacao bean sources can claim this safety feature.
• Pleasant, Tasty: The unique process we use retains the purity, fine aroma, fairly uniform large size, purplish-brown color, easy peeling (of the beans) and the nutritional impact that nature intended.
• High Flavor, No Roasting: Because of the quality of the bean and of our processing, you get to enjoy a rich, raw chocolate flavor and aroma without roasting.
• Low Acid: Our beans have extremely low acid levels. Most other varieties have much higher levels of acid.

Our NFL Cacao Beans and Nibs are microbe free and 100% safe. They are the highest quality “criollo” cacao variety in the world.

We have found by laboratory testing that other “raw” cacao beans on the market are not only of an inferior “forastero” cacao variety, they also are contaminated with several types of dangerous bacteria (remember cacao is a tropical crop where microbe contamination is more difficult to control). Here are the exact results returned to us by the lab after we sent them a sample of some of the poor quality “forastero” variety cacao beans being sold on the internet.

Product Analysis of Other “Raw” Cacao Beans On The Market:

A “-ve” rating for Salmonella on any food would get it pulled from any store immediately. And a “-ve” is a low rating compared to a TNTC rating! This lab result demonstrates an incredibly dangerous level of microbe contamination.

Be careful with dangerous, cheap imitation products. We have done the research and the testing in order to provide you the highest quality and safest product possible.

NFL cacao is quality controlled at every step delivering the highest quality, best tasting, microbe-free cacao beans/nibs in the world.