Chocolates are liked by everyone. It is not wrong to say, that they are one of the most liked food items these days. Chocolates are the perfect dessert on any occasion or on every party and a perfect gift for everyone in your friends or family.
Chocolates are produced from the beans of the cocoa tree, most appropriately called as the “Theobroma cacao”. This tree is sensitive to extreme environmental conditions and require very precise environment for its growth. Therefore, growing cocoa is a very difficult task.
Small family farms provide almost ninety percent of the total cocoa of the world. These farmers range 5 to 6 million in number and they grow cocoa for their living. The most popular regions of the world for the growth of cocoa are Africa, Asia and Latin America. The country Côte d’Ivoire supplies 40% of the total cocoa in the world. Ghana is also a major supplier. Although the demand for the chocolate and its products is increasing day by day and these industries are covering the steps of progress rapidly, yet the poor farmers are not getting benefits from this situation. Because the profit they gain from cultivating coca is too low, that they are unable to have a healthy living.
Fair trade is a kind of trade that is helping farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and making the cultivation of coca more feasible. The trade is through the payment of Fair trade Minimum Price. It is also providing additional Fair trade Premiums to invest in business.
Fair trade is also a mean to ensure that the purest and non synthetic ingredients are the components of chocolate you are going to introduce to your taste buds and to your physiological systems. It is a chocolate, about which you can say that it is free from the artificial flavors.
Many chocolate manufacturing companies are famous for producing the fair trade chocolates. Among all these companies divine is the number one. Milk chocolate with toffee and sea salt, one of their product was ranked to be the UK’s most favorite item. Cadbury dairy milk has been fair trade since 1960.
The increasing trend towards fair trading is because of lots of benefits. It ensures the consumer that he is taking a healthy product with a unique and divine taste. Secondly, it provides supreme advantages to the farmers who are the soul and the heart of the country. Although, these chocolate carries many benefits, yet they are not expensive and available at very affordable prices.
Lots of fair trade products are available in the market to provide a treat to your taste buds. Trader Joe’s Fair Trade Organic Belgian Milk Chocolate, Belgian Dark Chocolate Bars and Luxury Belgian Chocolates are so delightful and tasty to eat. These products are so pure with a unique aroma of world’s purest cocoa inside them. Cadbury dairy milk, also a fair trade product and is one of the leading chocolate brands in the UK. All these chocolates contain the perfect ingredients combines in a perfect way to enlighten the desire of your taste buds with such a unique texture and smoothness that you can never forget.
These chocolates are also perfect if you want to express your feelings and at the same time saving money is mandatory. The unique taste and the smooth texture of these chocolates will surely become a way of expressing your love and care for your loved ones.
The unique fair trade chocolates carries all the benefits of the regular chocolates in price and economical manner, further, their taste is even better than these regular chocolate bars. Also, they carry the additional benefit of purity and healthiness to the consumer.