The Improved
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Theobromine (C₇H₈N₄O₂) is the primary alkaloid in cacao — a methylxanthine, chemically related to caffeine but with slower absorption and a longer half-life in the body. That pharmacokinetic difference is well characterised; what it feels like in a given cup, at the amounts present in food, varies a lot from person to person. We'd rather tell you what's in the blend than tell you how it will make you feel.*

Cacao is naturally rich in flavanols — especially epicatechin — the plant compounds it's prized for. They're linked to the body's nitric-oxide pathway, which is why cacao is associated with healthy circulation.* We source high-flavanol cacao and keep it minimally processed so those flavanols survive to your cup, instead of being stripped out by heavy processing.

Flavanols like epicatechin are fragile. Heavy alkalizing (Dutch processing) strips most of them out of ordinary cocoa. We keep our cacao minimally processed on purpose, so the flavanols that make cacao worth drinking actually make it into your cup. It's the whole reason we call it high-flavanol cacao.

F-100 is coffee and cacao — foods, not medicine, and we don't sell them as a treatment for anything. It does contain caffeine, so if you're sensitive to caffeine, pregnant or nursing, or you manage a health condition or take medication, check with your doctor first, just as you would with any coffee. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, and this product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Honestly? A better cup of coffee. The taste difference is immediate — cacao gives it a rounder, darker body without any added sugar. Beyond flavour we're not going to promise you a feeling on a schedule; that isn't something we can substantiate, and anyone who does is guessing. What we can say is that cacao flavanols are studied at daily intakes, so if you're drinking it for the cacao, consistency is the part that matters.*

Here's the honest version. The largest trial to date, COSMOS, randomised 21,442 adults to a cocoa flavanol extract (500 mg flavanols, about 80 mg epicatechin daily) or placebo for a mean 3.6 years. Its primary endpoint — total cardiovascular events — was not met: the 10% reduction wasn't statistically significant. A pre-specified secondary endpoint, death from cardiovascular disease, was 27% lower. Separately, in 2023 the FDA said it would not object to a qualified health claim for high-flavanol cocoa powder, while stating its own view that the supporting evidence is very limited.

So: interesting, ongoing, not settled — and studied as a concentrated supplement, not as coffee. We're not going to tell you a bag of coffee reproduces a clinical trial. We'd rather publish what's actually in ours and let you decide.*

Yes — the actual certificates of analysis, by batch, as PDFs on our lab results page. Heavy metals (cadmium especially, since cacao takes it up from soil more readily than most crops), microbiological, mycotoxins, pesticide screen, and flavanol assay. "Third-party tested" means nothing without the paperwork behind it, so there's the paperwork.

High Performance Cacao is a 100% powder to stir into anything — coffee, smoothies, oatmeal. Ceremonial Cacao is single-origin, stone-ground for a richer ritual cup (think the traditional Mayan preparation). Chocolate Drops are 72% dark chocolate for an everyday snack that's rich in real cacao flavanols. All three are epicatechin-rich — pick the format that fits your day. The Coffee + Cacao is the easiest: it's already blended, so your morning brew delivers everything automatically.