Organic Dutch Coco 250g

This Organic Cocoa Powder is a Dutch-processed unsweetened cocoa powder. It gives a full, rich chocolate flavour to baked goods. It also makes a wonderful hot chocolate.

To make this unsweetened organic cocoa powder, organic cocoa beans are fermented, dried, roasted and cracked into nibs. The cocoa nibs are ground into a paste, known as chocolate liquor (which doesn't contain any alcohol, this is a just a term used in the chocolate industry) which is pressed into a cake (cocoa solids). The cocoa butter is then removed and the remaining solids ground to produce organic cocoa powder.

During this process the nibs or liquor are washed with an alkaline solution (usually 2.5% potassium carbonate) to reduce the natural acidity of cocoa beans. This process is known as “Dutch processing” and results in a cocoa powder that is darker in colour, milder and less acidic in flavour plus more soluble when compared to natural cocoa.

This way of processing cocoa powder was originally developed by the Dutch chocolate maker Conrad van Houten in the early 19th century, hence the name “Dutch Processing” and is also referred to as Dutching or alkalization.

Dutch processed cocoa is the best option for supporting gut health, as raw cacao is quite hard to digest.