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At the core of Pure Kakaw lies sourcing special cacaos from special farms. And we’re excited to share cacao from a new origin: Peru! To be more specific, the Quelloúno...

Both coffee and cacao are stimulating drinks but the way they interact with our body is not the same. This is because of the difference between the alkaloids caffeine (coffee)...

Although we're not living on a cacao farm, we do want to source from places that we love to be and actually want to live! The farms we partner with...

The whole Pure Kakaw project symbolizes working form the heart for us. We fell in love with this whole food and it took us on journey. Through Pure Kakaw we...

When we think about health, we mostly think about our body. We know much less about how our brain functions, let alone how to care for it. By keeping our...

Our breath is always with us and using it is very powerful. We love to combine breath with cacao to arrive in the 'now' with a calm mind. In this...

Before hand whisks, the cacao was poured from one vase into another vase until foam appeared and the drink was mixed well. The Mayas and Aztecs where known for thick...

A daily gratitude ritual can transform your life and make you more optimistic, friendly, empathic, and helpful towards others. Studies have shown that most happy people created a habit of...

Let's be honest. We really enjoy a good coffee ourselves. We don't drink it as much anymore because the effect is sometimes too edgy/nervous. More people want to limit their...

There are two ways of making this drink: Pour ice cold oat milk over a cacao shot. Pour a cacao shot over ice cold oat milk. Easy as that :-)

Working in cycles of high peaks and high recovery is most productive and saves time (compared to just putting more hours into a job). Most people have their creative and...

A cacao drink starts with the soil and the environment where the cacao grows. The agro-industry has transformed most of our food production to large monoculture farms. Productive in a short...

One of world's most magnificent drinks from India is called Golden Milk. And for a good reason as it is gold colored from the turmeric, full of taste, warm and...

Our cacao adventure started with the fascination about the effect that cacao has on our body and mind. Where the chocolate world focuses mostly on taste (and which is very...

And so we're happy to share this delicious recipe for a pot of cacao. It consists of brewing a tea as a base for your cacao drink.

Life needs to be celebrated once in a while and we want to live our fullest potential in a busy schedule of work and realizing our dreams. Here are some...

There are infinite combinations for chocolate recipes, but cacao remains its most important ingredient. Without cacao it wouldn't be chocolate. You can easily make all the crazy experiments you dreamed...

If you can let all thoughts, sounds, emotions, sensations just be without focusing on any one of them in particular, your mind becomes more and more calm. See it all...

One of the effects I find most interesting about cacao is how it increases your focus. This focus is beautiful for drawing, making music, office work, writing, meditating, and getting...

An experience we love to share. It's actually about breathing, a powerful practice and how cacao can be used to expand it. We have come across some different forms of...

Actually we found that cacao supports compassion in a beautiful way. Practicing compassion is the source of happiness according to the Dalai Lama. Helping the brain to function, increasing inner strength, self-confidence...