The cacao Esmaralda is from Esmeraldas, Ecuador which is known for being the first producer, the birthplace, and the home of cacao in the world. Esmeraldas is one of the most administrative, economic, financial, and commercial centres of Ecuador. The main activities of the province are commerce, livestock, industry, and agriculture. Much of the economy depends on the export of cacao.
Rosy Intriago, the founder, and initiator of RI Institute is Ecuadorian, originally from Esmeraldas-Muisne, Puerto Nuevo. Puerto Nuevo is a small village where all the products that are consumed are grown in a natural way. Rosy lived part of her life in Puerto Nuevo, which is a developed village.
Rosy’s father is currently 75 years old, but he has been working on the development of the community since he was 30 years old and now, Rosy would want to continue that legacy. She does this by indulging herself in the production of organic products such as the cacao. She supports the producers that produce this cacao by investing on education for ideas to come with new products and put themselves in the market, but also by investing in facilities for the production.
The products that we offer of this cacao are the sundried cacao beans, cacao nibs and pure produced cacao paste. The characteristics of the cacao paste on the skin are hydrating and moisturizing, you use it to exfoliate dead skin. Besides using the cacao paste on your skin, you can also use this to make chocolate milk, which you can do by mixing the cacao paste with warm milk and some sugar. The flavour of the chocolate milk is different than your usual, after tasting you will notice the peculiar characteristic taste and see that it comes with a soft touch and brings a pleasant aroma.
