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February 04, 2005
Fair Trade Certified and Organic Chocolate List
[Last Updated: 4 March, 2005] This is intended to be a continuously maintained list of fair trade certified (FTC) and organic chocolate vendors. It is important to note that FTC certification is given to products and not vendors. Thus, some vendors have multiple FTC prodcuts while others have only one or two FTC products.| Manufacturer | Fair Trade Certified | Organic Practices | Hot Chocolate? | Where to buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Art Bars (Ithaca Fine Chocolates) | FTC | Yes | No | www.ithacafinechocolates.com |
| Cocoavino Chocolates [1] | FTC | CCOF | Yes | www.cocoavino.com |
| Dagoba | FTC | Yes | Yes | www.dagobachocolate.com www.chocosphere.com |
| Divine Chocolates | FTC | No? | Yes | www.divinechocolate.com |
| Equal Exchange | FTC | Yes | Yes | store.yahoo.com/eeretail/index.html |
| Green & Black's | FTC | CCOF | Yes | www.chocosphere.com |
| Lake Champlain Chocolates [2] | FTC | Yes | Yes | www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/ |
| Newman's Own Organics | No | Yes | No | www.newmansownorganics.com/ |
| Rapunzel | Yes | Yes | Cocoa powder | www.rapunzel.com/ |
| Shaman Chocolates | FTC | CCOF | No | www.shamanchocolates.com |
- FTC = Fair Trade Certified by FLO standards
- CCOF = Organic certified by CCOF standards
If you do know of other vendors/manufacturers, that are FTC or certified organic, please let me know. I'll add them to the list.
Footnotes
- Cocoavino uses Green & Black's chocolate which is FTC and CCOF certified. It also tries to use other organic ingredients when it can. It sells Green & Black's Hot Chocolate.
- As far as I know Lake Champlain only makes one product that is fair trade & organic: a hot chocolate. None of their other products seem to be either organic or fair trade.
Posted by viren at February 4, 2005 08:03 PM
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Your site is great. I'm writing because, as an enthusiast of all things organic and delicious, I recently bought a box of Cocoa Vino bonbons for myself for Valentine's day. The company, admittedly started by a friend, uses organic chocolate (Green & Black's) and all other ingredients (including the cream & wine for their ganaches and the butter and sugar for their delicious toffee). They also use fair trade espresso beans in one of their bonbon flavors and are committed to the principals of sustainability and fair trade (the owners/chocolatiers worked in the international humanitarian aid field, travelling to developing nations frequently, for many years before beginning the company, so they know first hand the importance of these issues!) Above all, their chocolates are truly divine and the flavors are very interesting-I know I'm biased, but they really are spectacular!! The site is at www.cocoavino.com
Posted by: T. Troy at February 22, 2005 04:36 PM
I just looked at the cocoavino site and some of the products they have there look delicious. I'm especially intrigued by the Port-soaked figs in chocolate. I think, when they are available, that I'm going to have to buy them and write about them. Mmmmmm.
Posted by: Viren at February 23, 2005 02:37 PM