What bean variety is your cacao?

At Sacred Earth Medicine, we source a rare and award-winning variety of cacao native to Southern Peru.  The bean variety is chuncho criollo (often simply referred to as chuncho) which literally means it is native to the region. Chuncho cacao has been used as a sacred source of food and trade by the local indigenous Matsiguenga people dating back to the time of the Incan Empire. Criollo is the same bean variety used ceremonially by the mystics and shamans of ancient cultures to travel through the veils to other worlds.