Anamalai Cacao

Our Anamalai Cacao powder is just as at home in your favorite baking recipes as it is in your morning cup. Stir it into brownies, cakes, cookies, smoothies, hot chocolate, tiramisu, overnight oats, homemade energy bites, or chocolate sauces. Baking with cacao powder like this also pairs beautifully with coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, and other warming spices.

Not exactly. Raw cacao powder is generally processed at lower temperatures, while cacao powder is often lightly roasted or otherwise processed, depending on the producer. Neither term is a guarantee of flavor or quality. Both can be used in baking, smoothies, desserts, and beverages, but the biggest difference comes down to how the cacao was grown, sourced, and processed.

Cacao powder recipes cover everything from brownies, chocolate cakes, cookies, and muffins to smoothies, hot chocolate, protein shakes, overnight oats, chocolate mousse, and homemade granola. It also adds deep chocolate flavor to frostings, sauces, puddings, and desserts like cacao powder for tiramisu.

Absolutely. Anamalai Cacao Powder as a cacao powder for brownies brings deep chocolate flavor to fudgy bakes, and works just as well as a cacao powder for smoothies, blending beautifully with bananas, berries, nut butters, dairy, or your favorite plant milk. Its bold flavor means you don't need much to make an impact.

 Absolutely. Every single lot is tested at an internationally accredited food-safety lab, and we run intensive checks on every harvest, including:

• Microbiology (salmonella, listeria, E. coli, yeast, mold)
• Heavy metals (arsenic, lead, mercury)
• Pesticides

From farm to packaging, we keep standards ridiculously high so you get clean, honest, and incredibly flavorful spices, every time.

Store them in an airtight container in a dark, dry place. Do not store spices in direct sunlight, as this will shorten their shelf life.

We do! You can search for our wholesalers using our store locator here. And if you are a wholesaler and don’t see yourself on the locator, please email wholesale@diasporaco.live and we will add you to this ASAP! Thank you!

Most of the spices are good 2 years from the mill date, which is listed on the harvest label sticker on the jar or bag. That being said, our spices are extremely potent and fresh as we take incredible care to source yearly and aim for quality, so 2 years is our most conservative guideline, compared to most spices in the grocery store which are often 5-10 years old upon purchase.

Our farm partners have been cultivating spices using practices that go "beyond organic" for well over five years. Although they haven't obtained USDA certification yet, this is primarily because the initial certification can be costly and may lead to cycles of debt. To meet USDA standards, four years of inspections and certificates are required after the first certification. However, we consider this process redundant and unnecessary since we conduct thorough testing on every batch we procure. It's a prerequisite for Diaspora Co. to select farm partners whose soil health and agricultural practices align with our internal standards of growing food regeneratively.