Peruvian chocolate

Some people consider Peruvian chocolate to be one of the best in the world. In Europe Belgium and Swiss chocolate are rated highly, but it is from South America where the cocoa tree is tree is commonly found. The fact that the cocoa tree is so close to home for Peru, perhaps reflects on the excellent white and dark quality chocolate in addition to everything up to 100%.

The town of Piura is one sample of a place where chocolate is important and one of the bitter white version is famous for its quality. There are in fact a number of great brands from Peru and many attribute Peru with being one of the first producers of chocolate.

One of my favourite Peruvian brands comes by the name of Montezuma and this comes in a variety of percentages of chocolate although the 70% versions are a great level of cocoa for a strong dark chocolate.

In Peru there are a number of different cocoa beans and two of the popular ones include:

• Trinitario cocoa beans, and
• Criollo cocoa beans.

The vegetation and climate and the topology make Peru a very good country as a chocolate producer and countries around South American and the United States benefit from the Peruvian exports such as Montezuma.

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