About The Product
We make Yerba Mate Chocolate Mexicano with our signature stone ground chocolate and a hint of unsmoked Yerba Mate powder. Usually consumed as a tea-like beverage, Yerba Mate is hugely popular across South America. We source our Yerba Mate from the Kraus Family farm in Argentina with the help of EcoTeas. Yerba Mate Chocolate Mexicano is smooth and grassy, with notes of green tea on the finish. And it's very stimulating. 100% USDA certified organic.
50% Dark Chocolate. Ingredients: organic roasted cacao beans, organic cane sugar, and organic yerba mate powder.
Taza Chocolate
Founded in 2006, Taza Chocolate was born out of a desire to combine the Mesoamerican tradition of chocolate with a modern, high-quality product manufactured in a socially responsible way.
In 2005, Taza cofounder Alex Whitmore traveled to Oaxaca to steep himself in the history and culture of Mexico. There, he learned about the pre-Columbian ritual of “xocolātl” in Latin America, and the customs that surrounded the transformation of cacao into a drink. Having grown up eating European-style chocolate candy, Alex was surprised and inspired by the simplicity of the Oaxacan treatment......