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Help us support SOS (Sumatran Orangutan Society) to plant trees in Sumatra wit...
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Help us support SOS (Sumatran Orangutan Society) to plant trees in Sumatra with Tuan the Orangutan!
A 'gift that keeps on giving' - Metro
1 Tuan sold = 1 tree planted in Sumatra
Over 15,000 trees funded to date
47% Colombia origin milk chocolate
Decorated with naturally coloured speckles
Tuan is presented in 100% plastic-free packaging
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Description
Meet Tuan, our 100g chocolate orangutan, created to help support the work of SOS the Sumatran Orangutan Society.
By the way, Tuan means 'Sir' in Malay. We think if you met our Tuan in person, you would definitely call him Sir!
Tuan is made with our single origin 47% milk chocolate from Colombia, weighs 100g and is a bespoke and unique new design created in collaboration with Lush Cosmetics, another (much bigger!) Dorset brand. They very kindly adapted their SOS orangutan mould for us to be able to make a chocolate version. Lush have supported SOS for many years and have recently raised money from the sale of their orangutan soaps to buy back land that has been destroyed by palm oil plantations & now we are doing our bit to help reforest these areas of land with our chocolate orangutans!
They are delighted that we are joining the cause to reforest areas of this precious rainforest as not are orangutans under threat but also rhinos, tigers & elephants. All 4 of these iconic species are now classified as "critically endangered" because of the destruction of their habitat.
Help us rebuild the rainforest
Every Tuan, Tuandua, and Tuantiga sold will buy and plant one tree seedling, which will help bring sustainable trees back to deforested areas to restore the orangutans habitat and will fruit in the future.
As of the latest updates from the SOS team, we have funded the planting of over 15,000 trees. We were thrilled to discover from the SOS team in Sumatra, that orangutans love eating cocoa bean flesh fresh from the pod! Growing cocoa will also bring wider income streams to local farmers. In five years time, we hope to be buying the cocoa beans from the farmers, to make orangutan-approved Chococo chocolate!
Did you know that some of the biggest British chocolate brands contain palm oil?
It is added to cut costs as they replace a % of the more expensive cocoa butter with cheaper "vegetable fats" including palm oil. It is easy to avoid chocolate containing it though as they have to declare it in their ingredients labels. We never have, & never will, use palm oil as we only work with fine chocolate made with pure cocoa butter.
Why is palm oil so harmful?
Palm oil isn't harmful when farmed sustainably, however unfortunately in Sumatra the rainforests are under immense threat from industrial scale deforestation, with huge areas being flattened to make way for farm land due to the overwhelming international demand for palm oil. Some of it is farmed sustainably but sadly, most of it isn't. In Sumatra there is now 4 times as much land cultivated with oil palms as there is orangutan habitat remaining & there are now only 14,600 orangutans left - putting them on the critically endangered list.
Allergy Advice: For allergens, see ingredients listed in bold. Handmade in our chocolate kitchen which also handles gluten, nuts & soya, so there may be traces
Nutritional Information per 100g:
energy kj/kcal 2400/574, total fat 40g (of which saturated) 24.1g, carbohydrate 42.6g (of which sugars) 41g, protein 7.9g, salt 0.18g
Care Tips
Store between 16°C to 20°C.
Keep in a cool, dry place.
Avoid direct sunlight.
Do not refrigerate.
Delivery & Returns
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Every award below started the same way: two people, a small kitchen in Dorset, and fresh cream from a farm down the road. Twenty-three years and 142 awards later, we still make everything by hand in small batches.
142+
fine food awards and counting
Great Taste1-Star, 2024
Great Taste2-Star, 2023
Academy of ChocolateSilver Winner, 2022
International Chocolate AwardsDrinking Silver, 2022