Sean Jewell - All About Dark Chocolate, Including Good and Bad Farming and How To Choose The Best Stuff

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns welcomes Sean Jewell, environmental activist and co-founder of Coracao Confections in the San Francisco Bay Area to educate us on one of the great foods of the planet. Sean recently returned from a visit to his farming collective in Ecuador, and comes to the show rich with insights about the amazing work of organic cacao farmers to harvest a sustainable product, contrasted with the offensive and gross stuff that is happening with conventional cacao farming. If you like dark chocolate, this show will give you a fascinating education on how the cacao product is grown the right way, how to choose the highest quality products, and many more rich insights.

Hey, if you enjoy discount dark chocolate from Trader Joes or the supermarket, realize that you are almost certainly buying the product of child slave labor in Africa. You know how dark chocolate tastes “bitter”? It’s because they roast the heck out of the beans with conventional dark chocolate such that there is no flavor nuance left. You will appreciate the parallels between cheap dark chocolate and cheap wine or cheap beer. It’s time to become a chocolate conouisseur and look for designations like “bean to bar” and “fair trade” on your product label. Props to Sean for supporting sustainable farming with fair compensation and producing a fantastic dark chocolate bar. Learn more at CoracaoConfections.com

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson.
0:03.3	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.
0:05.6	It's time for another show dedicated to the world of keto.
0:09.3	Check out KetorReset.com for details about my New York Times bestselling book
0:13.5	and send your questions to info at Ketorreset.com.
0:30.4	I am talking to Sean Jewell, Chief Chocolate Officer CCO, of Corakout, I pronounce that right?
0:31.4	Yeah.
0:33.0	Corakout chocolate, yeah.
0:38.8	And I met you guys at PaleoFX, just walking by, grabbing the free samples.
0:42.9	And it was extremely delicious high-quality chocolate.
0:47.4	I took advantage of your two-for-one offer and bought a whole bunch of stuff to take home.
0:54.1	And we started chit-chatting about the chocolate industry at large and the quality manufacturing, some of the things to watch out
0:55.1	for. So I thought this would be a great show to educate the listeners, especially those
0:59.1	interested in dark chocolate and becoming a connoisseur rather than just stuffing their face
1:04.2	with the junk that's on the shelves because we have some issues and some big differences
1:08.6	in quality and manufacturing.
1:11.4	Most definitely.
1:17.0	So tell me, let's, I guess, start with what you guys do there at your operation,
1:20.8	and you can give a nice plug for the quality standards and the extraordinary lengths you guys go to to source the healthy chocolate and so forth.
1:25.9	Yeah, for sure.
1:26.4	So like you mentioned, I'm one of the co-owners
1:29.1	here at a cora cow chocolate and more recently also co-coco drinking chocolate. And yeah,
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