chocolate
Mid Mountain Blend 75%
Ritual is a premier bean-to-bar maker using only cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, and cocoa butter with no emulsifiers or vanillin. While the 75% cacao content is excellent for health benefits and it avoids flavanol-destroying alkalization, the lack of public batch-specific heavy metal testing and the high price-per-ounce keep it in the Silver tier.
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