{"title":"Original Beans","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are on a mission to grow the world’s taste for preserving nature. Since 2008, we venture into remote rainforests to feature the world’s rarest cacaos and transform the culture of chocolate, food and luxury. On our own, we show that it’s possible to regenerate what we consume. Together, we can preserve nature in all its rarity. #Taste rare and preserve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Taste the Rare\" Like other tree fruits, cacao is infused with flavours from the environment in which it grows. Its seeds—aka beans—are full of nutrition and when harvested, fermented and dried with craft, they reveal the unique characteristics of their distinct origins. Since 2008, our “Bean Team” travels into the rarest places on earth to bring original beans to you. Each of our beans has a story to tell. We invite you to taste them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Preserve the Rare To make sure that cacao beans—and their rainforests—of distinction are safe from extinction we grow one tree for every bar sold. When you break off a piece of Original Beans chocolate, Not only are you a moment away from enjoying the earth’s rarest cacao beans in their purest form— you are breaking ground for a tree. Through our One Bar: One Tree programme, Original Beans customers and farmers have grown millions of trees to date. #OneBarOneTree\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"original-beans-virunga-chocolate-bar-70-13-x-70g","title":"Original Beans - Virunga Chocolate Bar 70% 13 x 70g","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaste of Virunga 70%: Notes of morello cherries and black tea in this chocolate from rare Amelonado cacao embody Virunga’s mountain gorillas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne Bar: One Tree The beans for our Virunga grow in Eastern Congo around Virunga National Park, where millions of smallholder farmers try to make a living at its boundaries, despite all of the turmoil in the region. Through the One Bar : One Tree program and other conservation efforts, Original Beans helps to reforest tens of thousands of trees to buffer the park and improve the farmers’ financial situation. The new trees also help preserve the last 900 mountain gorillas in the world who call the park home. Your purchase of the earthy Virunga 70% supports our farmers to rebuild sustainable livelihoods around Africa’s oldest park, Virunga.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Original Beans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43966569611498,"sku":"25-TR-ORB-24002-13C","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7060\/0426\/products\/Original-Beans-Wholesale-Virunga-Chocolate-Bar-70_-70g.jpg?v=1678903065"},{"product_id":"original-beans-arhuaco-chocolate-82-2kg","title":"Original Beans - Arhuaco Chocolate 82% 2kg","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaste of Arhuaco 82%: tastes of liquorice and sesame blend as harmoniously in this chocolate from select-tribal Businchari cacao as the Arhuacos’ traditions to maintain nature’s balance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne Bar: One Tree: Forced into the highlands for centuries by conquistadores, settlers and the coca wars, the Arhuaco indigeNous community has recently returned to their ancestral lands and sacred sites at the Caribbean shores of La Lengüete. Here, they are initiating the revival of a select tribal cacao culture that was almost extinguished hundreds of years ago when outsiders mistakenly thought a rare white cacao was infected and cut the trees. Luckily, some old cacao trees survived in the shade of the wilderness and the Arhuacos recently started to harvest their precious cacaos again. One they named “Businchari” which means “new beginning” – and that’s exactly how the Arhuaco view their work with Original Beans on the Arhuaco Businchari chocolate. 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Unfortunately, women still have a very low standing in this part of the world so our focus is on strengthening their status via tree seedlings, training in cacao farming and a weekly local radio program run by women. Your purchase of the strong Femmes de Virunga 55% empowers the women cacao farmers and their community leadership for peace and prosperity in Eastern Congo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Original Beans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43966569644266,"sku":"25-TR-ORB-24001-13C","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7060\/0426\/products\/Original-Beans-Wholesale-Virunga-Chocolate-Bar-55_-70g.jpg?v=1678902946"},{"product_id":"original-beans-udzungwa-chocolate-bar-70-13-x-70g","title":"Original Beans - Udzungwa Chocolate Bar 70% 13 x 70g","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaste of Udzungwa 70%: Notes of orange and toffee travel as playfully in this chocolate from ultra rare Trinitario beans as the elephants coming down from the Udzungwa mountains. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne Bar: One Tree: The Udzungwa Mountain National Park has the second highest biodiversity of the national parks in Africa. In the midst of this astonishing nature–home to the endangered elephants that sales of Cru Udzungwa helps protect–grows the genetically rich fine flavour cacao for our Udzungwa chocolate, which has traditionally been low in production, quality and prices. Your purchase of the playful Udzungwa 70% supports the enterprising farmers, and in turn their stewardship of the Park and its playful elephants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Original Beans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43966569709802,"sku":"25-TR-ORB-24006-13C","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7060\/0426\/products\/Original-Beans-Wholesale-Udzungwa-Chocolate-Bar-70_-70g.jpg?v=1678902832"},{"product_id":"original-beans-piura-peru-chocolate-bar-75-13-x-70g","title":"Original Beans - Piura Peru Chocolate Bar 75% 13 x 70g","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaste of Piura 75%: Flavours of red berries and pecan shine as bright as Peru’s coast and butterflies in this chocolate produced from the ultra rare Blanco cacao varietal. \u003cbr\u003eOne Bar: One Tree: In 2007, Original Beans discovered this ultra-rare white cacao in the Piura valley of Northern Peru. Due to its lively fruit flavours, it has become one of the top-awarded beans worldwide. Your purchase of Piura helps protect the region’s spectacular butterfly collection and actively helps the valley’s dry forests decimated by severe weather and drought. Your purchase of the bright Piura 75% helps the region’s bright beans and even brighter butterflies stay aloft.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Original Beans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43966569775338,"sku":"25-TR-ORB-24003-13C","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7060\/0426\/products\/Original-Beans-Wholesale-Piura-Peru-Chocolate-Bar-75_-70g.jpg?v=1678902670"},{"product_id":"original-beans-cusco-chocolate-bar-100-13-x-70g","title":"Original Beans - Cusco Chocolate Bar 100% 13 x 70g","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaste of Cusco 100%: Notes of dried flowers and grass mark the altitude of this mighty chocolate from the rarest of rare Chuncho cacao cultivated since the Incas.\n\u003cbr\u003eOne Bar: One Tree: Located in the region of Machu Picchu, an astonishing Citadel built by the Inca Empire, the cacao famously kNown in Peru as “Chuncho” grows on the slopes of the Andes mountains in an altitude that is highly rare for the plant. 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