New Incan Empire, in plain text

New Incan Empire sells one product: bars of 100% Chuncho cacao that melt into hot coffee. This page is the plain-text version of everything on the site, kept short and factual so it can be read or quoted directly. Last updated 10 October 2026.

Bars of 100% Chuncho cacao, 100 g each. One ingredient: whole cacao, fermented, sun-dried and stone-ground into paste. Nothing is added and nothing is pressed out, so the cacao butter stays in the bar — 47.7% on our most recent lab test. That is why a piece melts into hot coffee instead of clumping or floating the way cocoa powder does.

It is not sweet. There is no sugar in it at all. Most people add honey, sweetener or milk. It naturally contains some caffeine, less than a typical cup of coffee.

How to use it: break off about 20 g, drop it into hot coffee, stir for about thirty seconds.

A family business. Austin left California in 2019 and met his wife in La Convención, the high-jungle valley east of the Andes in the Cusco region of Peru. The cacao is Chuncho, the native variety of that valley. It comes up out of the valley by bus over the Abra Málaga pass at 4,316 m, is processed in Cusco, and the bars are labeled by hand at home in the evenings, about two hundred at a time. Orders ship from California with tracking.

Ayllu is Quechua for family and community. Every order includes lifetime access to the New Incan Cacao Society, which includes a live Q&A on the first Sunday of every month.

• One ingredient: 100% Chuncho cacao from La Convención, Cusco, Peru.
• 47.7% cacao butter on our most recent lab test.
• 0 g added sugar.
• Never alkalized.
• Third-party lab tested in Cusco and Lima. Salmonella: absent. Lead: below detection. Cadmium: 0.17 mg/kg, within international limits. Reports LLP-5451-2025 and DT-00001-01-2026.
• Labeled by hand in Cusco.
• Ships from California with tracking.
• 30-day money-back guarantee; you keep the rest of the bars.

• The Starter Pack — 4 bars, about 20–30 cups. $49 plus $8.95 flat shipping. Subscribe and save 10%: $44.10 plus $8.95.
• The Ayllu Pack — 8 bars, about 40–60 cups. $99 with free shipping. Subscribe and save 10%: $89.10 with free shipping.

Subscriptions deliver every 4, 6 or 8 weeks and can be skipped, paused or cancelled at any time. Every pack includes the bars, a Quick Start Guide, a thank-you card from our family, and lifetime Ayllu access.

We make no health claims of any kind. We do not claim this product does anything for your body or your mind, and we do not publish review counts, survey figures or press mentions we do not have. At the time of writing we have three published customer reviews: two on Etsy, both five stars, and one from a customer in Davis, California.

• The product page — packs, prices, subscriptions, FAQ
• Our Story — how the cacao gets here
• Lab Results — the test summary
• The Journal — how-tos and recipes
• Wholesale — for cafés and shops
• Contact — call 530-433-5777 or email austin@newincanempire.com