KEFIR Probiotic Milk Chocolate Naive 57g

Kefir is the triumph of milk over time. In Lithuania, there are ancient traditions of creating kefir, an authentic product of culinary heritage and natural milk cultivation/fermentation for thousands of years. Kefir contains probiotics, a symbiosis of beneficial bacteria and yeasts that ferment and naturally preserve the milk. From generation to generation, the mysterious kefir grains are passed on to maintain the long tradition of this vital drink. “In the name of my innovative spirit, I decided to create something truly unorthodox by mixing kefir with my chocolate. Thanks to the live microorganisms, this creation continues to mature (like cheese) and its flavour gradually evolves. Is it timeless enough?”

The inhabitants of the Caucasus Mountains have been making kefir for thousands of years. In this region, kefir grains are known as “Prophet's grains”. According to the legend of the origin of the grains capable of living in milk and cultivating it, the Prophet Mohammed gifted the orthodox Christians of the Caucasus region with the sacred kefir grains. Mohammed supposedly taught people how to make kefir from them and people revered it as a superfood supporting health. The people of the Caucasus Mountains kept the kefir grains and the methods of handling them a complete secret for many generations. Owning these grains once meant having great wealth. People believed that the magical power of kefir would somehow diminish if the secret of its production was shared outside their region. Marco Polo mentioned this “magical drink” in his chronicles. Kefir has always been valued as a food of folk medicine, but the secret and key to making kefir only reached the wider public in the early 20th century.

“Chocolate is like my own life - bitter and sweet. It has always been my constant companion, seeing me grow from a carefree child to a completely quixotic adult. Chocolate is as lush as my most vivid dream and humble as my simple reality. By tasting Naive chocolate, you give meaning to my lifelong project - and for that, I want to personally thank you.”

Domantas Užpalis

In a small town on the eastern side of Lithuania, Chocolate Naive produces its unique chocolates “from bean to bar”. Every early morning, the chocolate master carefully roasts fresh cocoa beans, whose delicious aroma gently awakens the town's inhabitants. Just like a hundred years ago, Naive slowly conches the cocoa beans to release their extraordinary palette of flavours with notes of fruit, nuts, and flowers. These handmade bars are stored for later to mature and then create diverse flavour lines with natural superfoods and spices. At Chocolate Naive, one of only 200 producers of this type worldwide, the entire production cycle begins with the dried cocoa bean...

Top-quality cocoa beans are carefully selected from exceptional farms. They are then transported via old maritime routes to Europe and finally to Lithuania, home of Chocolate Naive. For Naive, two key principles are most important: Firstly - they work only with the best ingredients in the world. Secondly - they strive to become world-class artisans in working with these ingredients. That's all. Naive makes chocolate in ways that maximally help reveal the character of a specific cocoa bean. Chocolate is finally born only after a careful analysis of taste, colour, aroma, and texture. For some time now, Naive products have been putting Lithuania on the map of delicacies as a rising star of world gourmet chocolate. Experience a piece of our secret for yourself.

This unique 67% chocolate without refined white sugar, emulsifiers, or any other unnecessary additives is, like all quality chocolates, very rich in energy from stable cocoa fats (in this case also sugars from forest honey and cane juice), amino acids and enzymes from pollen, specific fibre, proteins, minerals, antioxidants, and theobromine. Based on the nutritional composition and the amount of fat/carbohydrates/proteins, which is specific and unique to each brand and type of chocolate due to the origin of the beans and processing, interesting differences can be expected.

Ingredients:

Special cocoa*, raw cane sugar*, cocoa butter*, kefir (10%), grass-fed dried milk*. * wild or all-natural farming. Cocoa solids content min. 57%. May contain traces of nuts, peanuts, and gluten.

WEIGHT: 57 g
MADE IN: Lithuania Cocoa origin: Peru
STORAGE: Store in a cool, dry place.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION PER 100 G:

Energy value
2116 kJ/503 kcal
Fats 45.6 g
of which saturated fatty acids 24.7 g
Carbohydrates 42.8 g
of which sugars 30 g
Proteins 6 g
Salt 44mg

Aroma profile/tones - Tones of milk ice cream, champagne, almonds, and flowers. Acidic tones and refreshing milky taste.