Sustainability

We are a small team of eight people and produce our chocolate on the outskirts of Zurich. For us, Bean to Bar means not handing off responsibility somewhere along the way. We roast, winnow, grind, conche and mould our chocolate ourselves. This means we know exactly what goes into our chocolate and where our ingredients come from.

Organic, fair and as local as possible.

Unfortunately, cocoa beans do not grow by Lake Zurich yet. For everything that can grow closer to home, we therefore look to Switzerland first.

Wherever possible, we use organic and regional ingredients and work with producers whose quality and values match our own. These ingredients include Swiss organic whole milk powder, organic chillies from Ticino and organic rose petals grown in Switzerland.

We take an even closer look at our cocoa beans. We want to know where they grow and who is behind them. Our beans come from selected farms and cooperatives. For us, fair prices are just as much a part of good chocolate as great taste. All our cocoa beans come from mixed forests, where cocoa grows alongside a variety of plants and trees within a diverse ecosystem.

Too good for the bin.

We like food waste about as much as we like bad chocolate: not at all.

Chocolate that still tastes wonderful should be enjoyed, not thrown away. That is why we try to avoid overproduction and food waste from the very beginning. Whenever possible, products we can no longer sell through our usual channels are passed on, donated or offered through Too Good To Go before reaching their best before date.

Because sustainability is also found in the small decisions, we pay close attention to our production processes. For example, we allow roasted cocoa beans to cool naturally in the air and only actively cool our production when it is truly necessary during the hottest part of summer.

We are not finished yet.

For us, sustainability is not a green label that you stick on the packaging once and then forget about. We continually question where our ingredients come from, how we produce, package and transport our products, and where we can still improve as a small company.

Not everything can be solved perfectly overnight. But many things can be made a little better every day.

Our goal? Chocolate with character, where enjoyment and responsibility belong together. From the cocoa bean to the finished bar. Right here on the outskirts of Zurich.