African Cocoa Powder

I love this cacao powder. It’s organic, it has a very fine powdered texture and has a really nice cacao flavor to it. I freeze banana chunks on a cookie sheet in the freezer and put them in my NutriBullet with some cacao powder and a handful of cacao nibs. I use almond milk as the liquid and I blend with a drizzle of raw honey until I have banana chocolate ice cream. I crush raw walnuts on top and enjoy. My husband loves this as well. So nutritious! If this review was helpful to you in any way, please let me know by clicking on helpful. Thank you so much!! 🙂

Has a big old warning on it about causing cancer and reproductive harm, but it DOES NOT SAY WHICH cancer causing chemical it contains, even though it is supposed to. The P65 website it directs you to says that products that require this warning should include the name of the chemical of concern in the products. On top of that, every time someone asks which cancer causing chemicals this product contains here in the Amazon Q&A, some dude just directs them to the website.

In addition to the whole little cancer issue, honestly this cacao just made my smoothie taste gross. I definitely don’t recommend it.

I don’t really like to leave negative reviews in general but I just feel that people need to know the truth before purchasing this product. As I was using this powder, shockingly I was coming across strands of hair something that I had never experienced before in any product in my entire life. Not in one occasion but in several, I was able to find different hair strand. I disregarded this item immediately. This company seems to provide a very poor food hygiene and low standard of cleanliness. They surely lost me as a customer.

I’ve been adding cacao to my coffee and making everything from homemade chocolates and mug-cakes for a while. What initially attracted me to Viva’s cacao powder was its price, packaging and being lower in carbs than the one I was using. I’m enjoying the taste of this. It’s richly delicious!

Been experimenting more and more with this as well as combining with cocoa too for extra chocolatey goodness. Xylitol brings out the flavor in this more in my perspective, though higher on glycemic index than stevia or erythritol. Overall it’s freaking good stuff for relatively low dietary cost.

Basically, subtracting the fiber, it’s 2 grams carbs per gram protein and 1/2 gram fat.

The MAIN thing I still use cacao for is my morning coffee, alongside some grass-fed butter and/or coconut oil. Using a small battery powered hand-mixer gets this frothed up to the power packed punch of a coffee shop mocha! It’s gotten to the point I can prepare this before fully waking up!

Basic mug-cake with this is 2 tbsp mixed with an egg, couple drops of vanilla, dash of salt, mixed well, adding pinch of baking soda last, then zapping in an oil-sprayed mug or bowl for 1.5 minutes. Play with the measurements, add nuts, etc. It’s really not too shabby for a quick cake! Sometimes I find myself bragging to friends I can bake a tasty mocha cake in under two minutes. Because I can 🙂

Easy to measure, easy to use, rich, smooth, delicious! Large bag so it lasts a while. Then again, I’m determined to create cacao low carb ice cream and will probably go through these a lot quicker LOL

First off, I do not like giving reviews on ANYTHING unless I really like a product. So with that said, here is my personal opinion on this Cacao powder from Viva Labs. Back in October of 2015, I got back into weight training. I was looking for ways to really boost my nutrition and was concerned about trying to get enough fiber, protein, antioxidants, etc from foods that would really be enjoyable to eat so I would be more apt to stay with my new diet. Now, I had began making protein shakes before finding this Cacao but after a while I wanted to add a little variety as far as a different taste, then I came across this product. I had seen it had some great reviews but thought it was nothing more than hype. The price was very affordable so I figured, what the heck. I’ll give it a shot. It arrived within several days and I honestly was NOT excited in the least to start using it as I figured “this might be hard to stomach, I hope I don’t have to throw it out”. So that day I was getting ready to go do my weight routine and I always make a shake to sip on in between my sets. So I made my shake, threw in 2 tablespoons of this Cacao, blended it up and then went out to the garage where my Olympic weight set is and started warming up. I finally got started with my routine and was just about through with my sets from the first exercise and decided to take a sip. Upon taking my first drink I was pleasantly surprised with the taste right from the start! The taste made kicking my own ass with weights totally worth it! I honestly wanted to drink more but decided to sip it slow. When I finally was finished with my routine I had made sure so save at least half of it. So I came inside and sat down and savoured the rest of it while I relaxed and damn! that was the way to finish off a weight routine let me tell you! So thank you Viva Labs for a really amazingly tasty Cacao product! You have made me a believer!
I most definitely will be buying more! Now for those of you who take protein shakes that want to see what I mean about flavour, here is the way I make my shake: 2 cups of NON dairy coco milk, (this can be sweetened or unsweetened but the reason for non dairy as some of you may already know is so the antioxidants can be absorbed in the body whereby if you use dairy the antioxidants will not), 1 scoop of Vanilla muscle milk, 3 tablespoons of hemp protein, 2 tablespoons of ground flax seed, 2 tablespoons of Viva Labs Cacao powder. Blend thoroughly then throw in 3 or 4 ice cubes and reblend for about 30 seconds and BAM!! 40+ grams of protein, 24 grams of fiber with an awesome taste to boot!
So there ya go. Hope you all enjoy that and thank you again Viva Labs!