Many foods can be enjoyed unheated - you already know about lots of them: fresh vegetables and fruit, fresh juices, dry and sprouted nuts, seeds, pulses and grains and cold-pressed oils. Some foods you may be less familiar with: fermented and dehydrated foods and a variety of superfoods such as micro-algae and seaweeds, cereal grasses, bee pollen. And then, of course, our favourite: raw cacao!

These are some of the benefits of raw food:

• All fresh vegetable/plant foods contain enzymes that aid digestion. Heating can degrade many of these enzymes, increasing the strain on the body's own enzyme production.
• Eating food with reduced enzymes makes digestion more difficult. This in turn can contribute to toxicity in the body, excess consumption of food, and ultimately obesity and chronic disease.
• Raw foods contain friendly bacteria and other micro-organisms that stimulate the immune system and enhance digestion by populating the digestive tract with beneficial flora.

• Living and raw foods generally have higher nutrient values than most cooked foods

We're not here to tell you how to live, but we do believe that eating more raw, living foods leads to greater well-being. That's why we're so excited about our chocolate - it's raw, it's living, and best of all: it's chocolate!