Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Single Origin Chocolate Bars

Have you ever wondered how chocolate gets made.  It starts by drying the cocoa beans produced from plants in their country of origin.  The beans are then exported to chocolate manufacturers worldwide for processing.

Bean to bar chocolate manufacturers like TCHO make chocolate directly from the cocoa beans.  Chocolatiers like Purdy's melt their bars from these manufacturers.

Single origin chocolate refers to chocolate bars made from beans from a specific region or country, thus having a distinctive flavour, much like how fine wines are distinguished.  I found some of this chocolate at Purdy's chocolatier  in Canada. They use TCHO single origin craft chocolate to make these bars.

Purdy's sell 3 of these single origin bars for $15, or $5.25 each.  Here are the ones I tried. Single origin chocolates tend to be very dark chocolate and can be bitter, but I liked all of these.  The Ghana one is a milk chocolate.  The Peru one has cocoa nibs.  My favourite was Ecuador.



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17 comments:

  1. Valerie-Jael15 May, 2019 01:53

    Sounds great, you can buy similar ones here, but they are out of my price range. Hugs, Valerie

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  2. Pink Rose15 May, 2019 02:41

    yummy chocolate i havent seen these ones before Christine xx

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  3. Natalia15 May, 2019 03:32

    I love dark chocolate ☺

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  4. Tanza Erlambang15 May, 2019 05:54

    look like yummy chocolate...

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  5. Anonymous15 May, 2019 08:31

    They sell these at our health food store, they are a bit pricey but the quality is exceptional I’ve heard. Beautiful packaging,

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  6. kotanopan.com15 May, 2019 08:46

    wow, i really like chocolate, whatever sweet chocolate, the best

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  7. Rain 15 May, 2019 09:15

    Nice post, I want some chocolate! I am not a huge fan of dark chocolate, I find it too bitter at times, but I can go up to 65%. I think my fave would have been the Ghana!

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  8. R's Rue15 May, 2019 09:42

    Yum.

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  9. Sandra15 May, 2019 10:52

    Fun:)

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  10. gigihawaii15 May, 2019 12:39

    I used to love chocolate, but now I don't really care for it because it tastes too sweet.

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  11. Anonymous15 May, 2019 19:42

    That's really cool learning all that.

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  12. Adam15 May, 2019 20:01

    Nothing beats German chocolate, out of all that I've tried. I'm pretty sure Germany doesn't actually grow the stuff, but they sure know what to do with it.

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  13. baili16 May, 2019 08:48

    interesting and informative post

    i can't eat the dark chocolate as much as my eldest son does
    it taste bitter

    i wonder why it called chocolate if not sweet and my son answers
    this is the original one

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  14. Jennifer Rose16 May, 2019 18:10

    def no more chocolate for me :(

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  15. Jenn Jilks17 May, 2019 19:50

    I love chocolate!

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  16. Lowcarb team member18 May, 2019 13:09

    A square of dark chocolate is very enjoyable ...

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