Recently I was interviewed on Blab by Steven Healey on behalf of the Wiltshire Business Club. We chatted for about half an hour about all things Elements for Life, raw chocolate and building a business.
Once known as the Gold of the Incas, lucuma is a sweet and edible fruit of the Lucuma tree. The unique flavour marries together maple, custard and caramel to give you a distinctive sweetness, which is low on the glycemic index (GI), making it a healthy choice for anyone who wants to kick their sugar consumption.
We nuts about coconuts here at Elements for Life. It's truly is amazing, with so many uses for virtually the whole plant, it's no wonder it's often referred to by Pacific Islanders as The Tree of Life.
Its amazing how many people think that making chocolate is difficult, and there's no mistaking it can be, especially if you start tempering and doing fancy things. When it comes down to it, making raw chocolate is easy, dead easy.
One of the things we love to do, is inform people that chocolate, or more specifically raw chocolate is good for them and then seeing their reactions. More often than not it goes along the lines of "Yeah right, if only!" or "Oh I should be so lucky!"
When making conventional chocolate, it is usual to carry out a process called tempering. This is essentially a process of heating then cooling your liquid chocolate, which changes the structure and properties of the finished product.