Superfruit
by Fearless
Impact
A superfruit bar, in juxtapose to Fearless' Super Seed bar, calls attention to cacáo's many guises.
Practically everyone knows about its candy fame. Or its gastro-power as a Dark chocolate pure flavor power-plant.
Less well known, the pulp of cacáo can be enjoyed as refreshing juice or taken as a fermented alcoholic draft.
Its seed of course dries into a nut, a key ingredient in every chocolate.
Its husk generates bio-fuel & its mulch a fertilizer.
The Queen of Fats -- cocoa butter -- finds its way into moisturizers, suntan lotions, or culinary oils; & whose lipids crystallize with enough tensile strength to form sculptural art beyond the Easter Bunny & Santa Claus.
Above all, Theobroma cacáo stands as the lead tree in rainforest conservation / rejuvenation.
It's the Swiss Army Knife of botanicals. Hell, is there anything it can't do?
With so many manifold properties & multi-personalities, & in line with the old adage 'you are what you eat', if cacáo were a person it'd be a supergod.
Wine has its 'angel's share', whisky its 'devil's cut' & chocolate this missing bite -- an 'offering to the gods' or in Fearless' case a worldly donation to various worthy causes
Practically everyone knows about its candy fame. Or its gastro-power as a Dark chocolate pure flavor power-plant.
Less well known, the pulp of cacáo can be enjoyed as refreshing juice or taken as a fermented alcoholic draft.
Its seed of course dries into a nut, a key ingredient in every chocolate.
Its husk generates bio-fuel & its mulch a fertilizer.
The Queen of Fats -- cocoa butter -- finds its way into moisturizers, suntan lotions, or culinary oils; & whose lipids crystallize with enough tensile strength to form sculptural art beyond the Easter Bunny & Santa Claus.
Above all, Theobroma cacáo stands as the lead tree in rainforest conservation / rejuvenation.
It's the Swiss Army Knife of botanicals. Hell, is there anything it can't do?
With so many manifold properties & multi-personalities, & in line with the old adage 'you are what you eat', if cacáo were a person it'd be a supergod.
Appearance 3.3 / 5
| Color: | purple rose |
| Surface: | smudged |
| Temper: | fudged |
| Snap: | deaf & dumb |
Aroma 7.9 / 10
oiled wood
buttered mushrooms
boiled greens
+ a sharp tang to top it all off &, get this, sundried tomato!
buttered mushrooms
boiled greens
+ a sharp tang to top it all off &, get this, sundried tomato!
Mouthfeel 10.2 / 15
| Texture: | soft powder |
| Melt: | quick dissolve |
Flavor 34 / 50
flash cocoa -> purpling fruit (açai) -> mounting citric streak (cupuaçu) -> bitter-tart (more açai) -> bracing passionfruit (more cupuaçu) -> pomegranate -> grapefruit extract -> rosehips 'n OJ -> unbuffered Vitamin C
Quality 13.8 / 20
Fearless tosses the overhyped açai into the mix with the cacáo seed & the less universally renowned cupuaçu (a cousin in the Theobroma family species [Theobroma grandiflorum]).
Popular in South America, cupuaçu's thick, somewhat fibrous pulp ends up in drinks, especially in Brazil from where Fearless sources its chocolate. Very aromatic / acidic (pH 3.3), it tastes of a cross between pear x passionfruit. In addition, the cupuaçu's seeds contain a fragrant white fat similar to that of cacao which makes for a type of White Chocolate-like confection named cupulate.
The bitter açai palm berry, a sort of blackberry flavor with under-riding chocolate-clove analogues, rounds up this all-Brazilian fruit medley in an equation of subtraction thru addition. A pedigreed seed selection of some sweet cacáo pulp with inherent reducing sugars, subjected to a dynamic ferment, would achieve better results thru simplification. Such as Amma's earlier releases.
As is, a citrus freak.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, cupuaçu powder, açai powder, unrefined sugar
Reviewed May 23, 2013
Popular in South America, cupuaçu's thick, somewhat fibrous pulp ends up in drinks, especially in Brazil from where Fearless sources its chocolate. Very aromatic / acidic (pH 3.3), it tastes of a cross between pear x passionfruit. In addition, the cupuaçu's seeds contain a fragrant white fat similar to that of cacao which makes for a type of White Chocolate-like confection named cupulate.
The bitter açai palm berry, a sort of blackberry flavor with under-riding chocolate-clove analogues, rounds up this all-Brazilian fruit medley in an equation of subtraction thru addition. A pedigreed seed selection of some sweet cacáo pulp with inherent reducing sugars, subjected to a dynamic ferment, would achieve better results thru simplification. Such as Amma's earlier releases.
As is, a citrus freak.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, cupuaçu powder, açai powder, unrefined sugar
Reviewed May 23, 2013