If you’ve ever wanted a good excuse to eat chocolate, here you go!!! Cacao powder is a chocolate superfood!
Unlike regular cocoa which contains only 2 grams of fiber and 2% of your daily iron, cacao powder is chock full of goodness!
A Chocolate Superfood in the form of Cacao Powder:
It contains the following:
- 4.6g Dietary Fiber -5% dv
- 60mg Magnesium -15% dv
- 183mg Potassium -5% dv
- 88mg Phosphorus -9% dv
- 0.5mg Manganese -23% dv
- 1.6mg Iron -9% dv
- 0.5mg Copper -22% dv
I was sent a pound of cacao powder to use, and that’s exactly what I am doing!!! Chocolate fruit smoothies that are sweetened with honey and have chia seeds in it are becoming my “after-work treat”. With your purchase on Amazon you also receive a free E-book with several recipes to get you started using your cacao powder.
My original smoothie recipe that I shared a picture of above came from this E-book. Let me tell you, that smoothie was heaven! I also made the chocolate cupcakes. I used wholewheat flour instead of all-purpose, and made them mini instead of large.
I’m glad I made them mini, they are such a rich treat. Two mini cupcakes with a glass of coconut milk make a deliciously healthy and satisfying snack.
Not burnt 🙂 the whole wheat flour made them very dark.
Since I cannot have dairy, most forms of chocolate are off limits to me. However, I can make chocolaty treats with cacao powder and I don’t miss the other. In fact, the other doesn’t really appeal to me anymore. These treats have such a pure chocolate flavor that other chocolates pale in comparison.
My cacao powder came from Freedom Superfoods. I really appreciate the quality of their product and how they have sourced their product from small family farms in the Dominican Republic. It is organic, and free of 7 major allergens including gluten and dairy.
I absolutely love my cacao powder, and that pound bag that I thought would last me forever isn’t going to last long at all!
Cacao Powder (affiliate link) is available for sale on Amazon and as of the posting date of this post, it’s on sale for $16.97 a pound! If by now I haven’t convinced you that cacao is a chocolate superfood (and especially if I have!) it’s high time you give it a try. 🙂 You will love the taste, and who knows, with all those nutrients, you may even notice a difference in how you feel!
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Cacao powder is a fantastic tasting super-food. I have been using it for smoothies, vegan cheese cakes, hot chocolate , and so many other desserts for years. It is totally delish. I make sweet potato brownies with cacao powder, dates and maple syrup. They are so rich and yummy. I gave up all refined sugar over a year ago and using cacao helps me continue to enjoy fantastic deserts that are healthy.
I remember those days that i help my grandmother harvesting cacao fruit in our backyard and make chocolate out of it.. after harvesting the cacao, we crack it open, get all the seeds and get remove those sweet slimy stuff that covers the cacao seed, and after that we put a sack on the ground and scattered all the seeds in the sack and let it dry, and we repeat it againamd just letting the sun dried it, when its already super dry, my grandma will get a big wok and put the seed there and we roast it, when its already roasted we let it cool off and we separate the skin from the seeds by peeling or taking the skin off manually, and after that my grandma ground it until it turns into a sticky hot chocolate, and we mold it into circles and we will make hot chocolate out of it.