Tumaco

Columbia

2021
Free shipping on orders over $25.

In this 2021 harvest, we taste notes of espresso, nuts, and floral notes.

What Are Nibs?

A cocoa bean has three parts: the meaty interior, or nib; the radicle, a tiny embryonic root at one end; and the papery outer husk. Nibs are where the flavor lives, and to make chocolate, we crush them and add sugar after the dried, fermented whole beans are sorted, roasted, de-husked.

How Do I Use Them?

We like to recommend using nibs like nuts — in cookies, salads, bread, you name it — but they are so much more dynamic than that. They can be punchy and acidic like ripe strawberries, toasty and nutty like roasted almonds, or creamy and sweet like peach ice cream. Cocoa nibs are the purest, most direct expression of a cocoa bean’s flavor in all its delicious complexity.

What Creates Nibs' Interesting Flavors?

Flavor is impacted by lots of things — the genetics of a cacao tree, the geography and climate of a region, the fermentation and drying process, the way we roast the beans—and varies from harvest to harvest.

Ingredients & Allergens
Our single-origin cocoa nibs are free of soy, dairy, eggs, and gluten and are packed in a factory that does not contain nuts.
Weight
350 g
Learn More
Learn more about our cocoa beans and sugar — the region, the farms, and the producers.
Dandelion Chocolate Cocoa Nibs Cocoa Nibs Tumaco, Columbia 2021
Cocoa Nibs
Tumaco, Colombia
notes of espresso, nuts, with floral highlights

About Tumaco, Columbia

Cacao Hunters is the first Colombian company to source cacao and produce cocoa and chocolate within Colombia. They're an ideal partner, as their openness to innovation and experimentation enables them to produce the best cocoa possible.

Cacao Hunters works passionately with farmers growing local cultivars in regions where income generation has been difficult due to recent conflict. Owners Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata (a former pastry chef) met in Japan in 2009, and have been working together ever since to produce high-quality cocoa in challenged areas of Colombia.

Having built strong alliances with Tumaco producers, Cacao Hunters supports local families by providing stable, higher-than-market prices for good cocoa. They work with a variety of regional associations, each of which ferments its own cacao with the company's assistance and advice. Beans from Tumaco make up more than 60 percent of the cocoa that Cacao Hunters uses for their own chocolate brand; we feel fortunate to be able to procure some of these flavorful beans to use ourselves.

Cacao Hunters' chocolate may now be found in the best chocolate shops in major Colombian cities. In 2016, their Tumaco bar won for Best Milk Chocolate Bar in a competition of 900 products in Osaka, Japan.