Quality & Trust
Certifications & Expertise
We commit to deliver the best quality to our consumers. Our cacao beans are sourced from traceable cacao farms, impulsing the work of chemical-free plantations.
The certifications we have include:
- Certified Organic by IMOcert
- Fairtrade Certified, ensuring ethical sourcing and support for farming communities
- Cadmium-Free, tested and approved by AGQ Labs and IAS laboratories.
- Laboratory analysis test by SAT accredited by INACAL for the cacao essential oil.
Note: we also work with independant cacao farmers, for whom to certify their cacao parcels means a significant investment. We have visited their farms, and we have guaranteed their agroforestal systems of cacao plantations.
Global language about Cacao
- The plant of cacao belongs to the family of Malvaceae.
- Cacao is inside of the Theobroma genres of plants: Theobroma cacao, Theobroma bicolor (macambo), Theobroma grandiflorum (Copoazú), Theobroma subincanum.
- Theobroma Cacao refers to the specie, inside these genre of plants.
- Cacao varieties refers to the 25 varieties investigated by Alliance Bioversity Ciat until nowadays, reserach made by Thomas Evert.
Trust: Fiorella, certified cacao & chocolate educator
From ritual to laboratory, I (Fiorella) have been learning cacao in every supply chain area for the past 6 years, with base in Peru. I have been learning with leader global institutes who seek the improvement of the cacao quality from the bean to the bar.
My certifications include:
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Cacao of Excellence trainee: completion of the 2025 Awards Training at the Cacao of Excellence R&D Laboratory and Training Center in Rome, Italy during the period from June 2nd to June 27th 2025.
- Chocolate & Cacao Taster: certification obtained by UNALM University from Peru in February 2025.
- International Institute of Chocolate & Cacao Tasting: completion of level 1, studied with Professor Maricel Presilla in Lima at the frame of Salon of Chocolate & Cacao.
I commit to bring deep expertise and integrity to every product we deliver at Kaukawa Cacao, being in alliance with key organizations in the developement of standarization and protocol implacement to guarantee a superior cacao bean quality, impacting all actors along the suply chain of production.
We are Kaukawa Cacao from Peru!