Georgia Ramon Guatemala Milk Chocolate 55% BIO

Cherries and blackberries, with a touch of spiced cream, these are the flavors of the Jolomijix cocoa from the edge of the Sierra de las Minas National Park, a unique UNESCO Biosphere.

Guatemala is the most populous country in Central America, located in the south of the Yucatán Peninsula. Guatemala borders Honduras to the southeast, El Salvador to the south, Mexico to the north and Belize to the east. The country has two coasts, a narrow entrance to the Gulf of Honduras, part of the Caribbean Sea, to the east, and the Pacific coast to the southwest.

DeLaSelva cooperative
Georgia Ramon is a member of the DeLaSelva cooperative. It grew out of the project work of the renowned tropical forest management foundation OroVerde. 'DeLaSelva is Spanish and means "from the rainforest."'

Sierra de las Minas
Buying Jolomijix cocoa beans means income for the indigenous Quecha communities on the edge of the Sierra de las Minas National Park. This mountain area was recognized as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1992. The reason is the extraordinary biodiversity of the mountain cloud forests, which reach heights of more than 3,000 meters - more than 885 species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians live here. They are also home to the quetzal, the legendary bird of the Mayan gods and the heraldic animal of Guatemala.

The cocoa is grown in a very special way: in biodiverse forest gardens. The cocoa trees grow mixed with fruit and shade trees. For decades this has provided the families with a rich harvest, additional income and at the same time the rainforest is preserved. Through their own processing and marketing, the small farmers become more economically independent and further develop their self-sufficiency.
The special cocoa from Guatemala already played a central role in the advanced civilization of the Maya more than 2,000 years ago. Their descendants in the Sierra de las Minas cultivate this culture - and this cocoa to this day.

More than 400 small farmers of the Quecha people (descendants of the Maya) are engaged in cocoa cultivation. Cocoa already played a central role in the high culture of the Maya, and their descendants maintain this importance to this day.

Ingredients: cocoa mass Guatemala, cocoa butter, whole milkpowder, raw cane sugar.
Flavors: red berries (cherries and blackberries) with notes of cream and spices.