Oro de Cacao - The chocolate revolution
Dieter Meier, the visionary behind Oro de Cacao
Dieter Meier is known worldwide as one half of the experimental electro-pop duo Yello. Younger people are probably no longer so aware of this. That's a shame, because they could learn a lot from him. For example, to believe so strongly in a crazy idea like the cold extraction of cocoa that you bet everything on red, take on established competitors and set out to revolutionize an industry. Or not looking for recipes against something, but for something, as the jack-of-all-trades Meier put it in an interview. That sums up our philosophy perfectly.
How Oro de Cacao is revolutionizing the chocolate industry
The Maya loved cocoa. They mixed the ground cocoa beans cold with water instead of roasting them hot. Experts at the ZHAW Wädenswil in Switzerland have taken up this gentle process again, developed it further and perfected it by Oro de Cacao. With this gentle process, Oro de Cacao is revolutionizing the chocolate industry. The globally patented cold extraction process preserves the four elements needed for this high-quality chocolate: mild cocoa powder, aromatic cocoa butter, cocoa polyphenol powder and natural flavor components.