We are absolutely in love with the work of our latest cacao artist: Nina Pace. Her flowery work for wild child cacao breathes hope and joy, all that we long for in the midst of wintertime, don’t you think?
Rianne from Hallo Vogel is an creative therapist and has her own company ‘Hallo Vogel’. She paints birds on kitchen chelfs and doors AND learns people the art of painting birds!
In our current day society, we mostly get our energy and kick from drinks with a high caffeine component: coffee and energy drinks like Red Bull. Some people are dependent on it and believe they can’t go without it. I remember the lines at the coffee machine in our college breaks at university very well. …
The difference between coffee (caffeine) and cacao (theobromine) Read More »
The foam on cacao drinks was as holy to the Aztecs as the foam on our beers today. They poured the chocolate into another yar from 1,5 meters high to create an abundance of foam. The Spanish also loved their ‘espuma’ and introduced a wooden whisk stirrer called ‘molinillo’, that is still used in Mexico …
Another cacao molecule investigated here at Wild Child Cacao. This time we zoom in on phenylethylamine, or easier said: PEA. PEA is an alkaloid naturally occurring in our bodies and cacao stimulates the release of PEA in the brain. Specifically in the part of the brain that is associated with emotions. This results in feelings …
Inside cacao: high on love with Phenylethylamine (PEA) Read More »
A little story about the flowers and the bees. Or should we say.. flowers and mosquito’s! In the wonderful illustration above you see the tiny 5-petaled flower of the cacao tree. Cacao flowers are very small, typically about 1 cm across, and their reproductive parts are even smaller. The male parts of the flower, where …
The pollination of the cacao flower is done by a… Read More »
We both have traveled the world learning about and tasting different kinds of cacao. Eva went on a cacao discovery in Central and North America for two years. Malou fell in love with chocolate in Costa Rica, where she lived for a year. Our cacao journeys continued in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is one of the …
Wild Child favorite: cacao from the Dominican Republic Read More »
We call our cacao brand ´Wild Child ceremonial & fine flavor cacao.’ Yet, what does ‘fine flavor’ mean? And why is it important to us? A little introduction. Cacao harvest is similar to that of wine where every harvest season has a different character to it. Cacao can taste earthy or floral or sour, have …
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Theobromine is probably the utmost famous molecule in cacao. It is directly linked to the Latin name of the cacao tree: Theobroma Cacao. Theo means ‘God’ and Broma means ‘food’. Literally ‘food of the gods’.
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