Art & Cacao Project: Limited edition cacao infused art, printed on our 500g boxes. Every edition, we ask a different designer to create an illustration, specially for these boxes, while drinking Wild Child Cacao. Up now: Sophie Holt Read our interview with her below to learn more about Sophie and the artwork! Can you tell […]
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Art & Cacao Project: Limited edition cacao infused art, printed on our 500g boxes. We ask different designers to illustrate a piece, specially for these boxes, while drinking Wild Child Cacao. Up now: Melissa North Read our interview with here below to learn more about Melissa and the artwork! Can you tell us something about
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Hello dear Wild Childs! Today, I want to share some important news regarding the recent rise in cacao bean prices you may have heard of in the newspapers, the factors contributing to this change and the effect it has on Wild Child Cacao. Read all about it below! So, what happened? As many of
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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?
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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!
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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