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100% Chuncho Cacao Bars

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  • Chuncho Cacao lab results summary
100% Chuncho Cacao Bars

100% PeruvianChuncho Cacao

Whole Peruvian cacao that melts into your coffee.

One ingredient: 100% Chuncho cacao, the old native variety of La Convención. Fermented, sun-dried and stone-ground into paste.

Nothing added and nothing pressed out, so it melts into hot coffee instead of floating on top of it.

  • 1 Ingredient
  • No Added Sugar
  • Lab Tested
  • Never Alkalized
  • Labeled by Hand
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  • The Quick Start Guide
  • A thank-you card from our family
  • Lifetime access to the New Incan Cacao Society

30-day money-back guarantee · Ships from California with tracking

How long will a pack last?

One cup a day: a Starter Pack lasts about 3–4 weeks, an Ayllu Pack about 6–8.

An estimate, from 20–30 cups per Starter Pack and 40–60 per Ayllu Pack.

Join the Ayllu

the New Incan Cacao Society

Ayllu is Quechua for family and community. When you order, you join ours.

Austin in the kitchen in Cusco with his parents-in-law, holding cacao pods and a bar

Monthly Q&A with our family

A live call on the first Sunday of every month. Ask anything about cacao, how to prepare it, or life in the Andes.

The New Incan Cacao Society classroom, with guides and recipes

Recipes and how-to guides

A classroom of preparation ideas, recipes and short videos, added to as we go.

Austin's father-in-law in traditional Andean dress, holding an open cacao pod and a bar

Closer to the source

My father-in-law is an Andean priest. He sometimes joins our calls to share his knowledge from the Andes, and I translate.

Lifetime access with any pack. Brand new: you would be one of the first members.

More than cocoa powder.

In 1828 a hydraulic press squeezed most of the fat out of cacao, and what was left behind was cocoa powder. The part that lets cacao melt is the part that got pressed out. Ours keeps it — 47.7% cacao butter on our most recent lab test.

Cocoa powder
Whole cacao
See the side-by-side
Whole Chuncho cacao compared with typical cocoa powder
What the press takes out, and what we leave in.

Choose your ritual

Break off about a fifth of a bar, roughly 20 g. It is strong, so many people find a little less is plenty.

A piece of Chuncho cacao stirred into a cup of hot coffee

01 Into your coffee

30 sec
  1. Break off about a fifth of a bar (20 g)
  2. Drop it into hot coffee
  3. Stir a real 30 seconds. Taste before you sweeten.

You need: mug, spoon

Cacao warming in a small pan with a splash of water

02 Warm it first

What we make most mornings. ~2 min
  1. Warm the piece in a small pan with a splash of water
  2. Stir until smooth
  3. Pour in your coffee, about half and half.

You need: small pan, mug

A cup of pure cacao, no coffee

03 On its own

~3 min
  1. Same pan, no coffee
  2. Add cinnamon, a little honey or a splash of milk
  3. A rich, dark cup of cacao.

You need: small pan, mug

Four bars, made to go with you

Eight bars, made to share with your family

  • HomeKeep one where your day starts
  • WorkOne for your desk
  • RoadOne for the road
  • ShareOne for a friend

Chuncho, by the numbers

1 IngredientWhole Chuncho cacao, nothing added
47.7% Cacao butterOn our most recent lab test
0 g Added sugarIt isn’t sweet
30 sec To stir it inBreak off a piece, stir a real 30 seconds
20–30 Cups per Starter PackDepending on how strong you like it
30 days Money-back guaranteeLove it, or I refund you and you keep the rest of the bars

From the Andes to your mug

Five stops, one bar. Tap a stop to follow it.

A stylised map of the route: from the La Convención valley in the high jungle, over the Andes to Cusco, then north to California and on to your mug. 1 2 3 4 5
An elevation profile: Quillabamba at 1,050 m, climbing to the Abra Málaga pass at 4,316 m, then down to Cusco at 3,399 m.
  • Quillabamba1,050 m / 3,445 ft
  • Abra Málaga pass4,316 m / 14,160 ft
  • Cusco3,399 m / 11,152 ft

The climb the cacao makes on its way out of the valley.

Austin's wife's extended family outside their home in the high jungle
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La Convención valley

High jungle, east of the Andes. This is where native Chuncho cacao grows.

The bus that brings the cacao up from the jungle
2

Over the Andes to Cusco

The cacao comes up from the jungle by bus, over a pass higher than any road in North America.

Stone-ground Chuncho cacao paste
3

Cusco, our home

Fermented, sun-dried, stone-ground into paste, and labeled by hand by our family.

The four-bar Starter Pack, packed and ready to ship
4

California

Where we ship from, with tracking.

A finished cup of cacao beside a broken piece of a bar
5

Your mug

And now you are part of the story.

Cusco to Los Angeles is about 4,500 miles (7,200 km) in a straight line.

Made by hand, in Cusco

We are a small family business. The bars are labeled by hand in the evenings, about two hundred at a time, by my wife and me with help from her family.

The cacao is Chuncho, the old native variety of La Convención, and it comes up from the jungle by bus.

Austin and his mother-in-law labeling bars by hand on a couch
My mother-in-law and me, labeling bars by hand before they ship.

Tested, not just trusted

We sent samples to third-party labs in Cusco and Lima. Nobody required us to. We did it because “trust us, it is clean” is not an answer.

English summary of our lab results
An English summary of our most recent lab reports. The originals are in Spanish; ask and we will send them.

Ask for the original reports

Goodbye to

  • added sugar
  • clumpy powder
  • mystery mixes
  • flavor syrups
A cup of cacao beside a broken piece of a bar on a wooden board
Zero added sugar

Hello to

  • one ingredient
  • real cacao butter
  • a cup that melts smooth
  • a family you can actually call

What people say

I love my coffee so this was a tall order to add in to my routine. But this stuff is actually really good. I’ve been cutting back on coffee and this scratches the itch. you still get a lift but it doesn’t make me feel like garbage at 2pm. Heads up it is NOT sweet at all, it’s 100% cacao so don’t bite into it expecting a candy bar. I shave some into hot water with a little honey or sweetener and it’s basically a really rich dark hot chocolate. Takes 5 min. Highly recommend, great product
MikeyEtsy review · Sep 15, 2026
The individual humans behind producing and selling this select few cacao from that side of the world to my side of the world is such a beautiful thing. Thank you! Life long customer
MACEtsy review · Aug 14, 2026

5.0 ★ on Etsy (2 reviews)

Questions people ask

Is it treated with alkali?

No. It is never alkalized (Dutch-processed). The beans are fermented, sun-dried, and stone-ground into paste. Nothing is added and nothing is pressed out.

How much fat is in a cup?

About 9.5 g of fat in a 20 g serving, all natural cacao butter. Our lab measured 47.7 g per 100 g.

Is it sweet?

No. There is no sugar in it at all. It is rich and dark. Most people add a little honey, sweetener or milk — some drink it exactly as it comes.

How do I use it?

Break off about a fifth of a bar (20 g), drop it into hot coffee, and stir for a real thirty seconds. You can also warm it in a small pan with a splash of water first, then pour your coffee in.

How long does a pack last?

Four bars make about 20 to 30 cups, so about three to four weeks if you have one most mornings. Eight bars make about 40 to 60.

Does it have caffeine?

It naturally contains some caffeine, less than a typical cup of coffee.

When does it ship?

From California, with tracking. We make about two hundred bars at a time and label them by hand, so if a batch has just run out the next one ships once it comes up from Cusco — a week or two. We will tell you if that is the case.

We are a small family business, and customer care still comes directly from us.

Call 530-433-5777 Email austin@newincanempire.com

In every box

The bars, the Quick Start Guide and a hand-written thank-you card on a wooden table
  1. The bars— 100% Chuncho, labeled by hand
  2. Quick Start Guide— A coffee alternative from Peru
  3. A thank-you card— From our family

Lifetime Ayllu accessA live Q&A the first Sunday of every month

We include a personal thank-you card with every order, a small gesture of the same hospitality we would offer if you came to our home in Peru.

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