Lubeca Chocolate

Couverture — a chocolate that contains at least 31% cocoa butter

Lubeca produce a wide range of chocolate couvertures suitable for a large variety of applications.

Lubeca’s standard dark chocolates start with a cocoa solids content of 60%, and are made from cocoa beans from either the Ivory Coast or Ghana. The highest cocoa content they produce is an 85% Ghana, which whilst having a good rounded chocolate flavour is very mellow. The next grade in the dark chocolate couvertures are made from a blend of high quality cocoa beans from the varieties Arriba, Trinidad and Venezuela.

For really special applications, Lubeca produce a range of

Single Origin Chocolate Couvertures:

Arriba 63%, made from Arriba cocoa beans selected from the highlands of Ecuador

Rio Caribe 67%, made from the fruity Rio Caribe variety of Venezuelan cocoa beans

Trinidad 72%, made from cocoa beans from Trinidad

Vanuatu 64% & Vanuatu 43%, Made from cocoa grown on the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu

Lubeca also make Milk Chocolate in a wide variety. Standard products using a blend of Arriba, Trinidad, Venezuela and Java cocoa beans. They also have standard products made from only

• Java cocoa beans
• Ghana cocoa beans
• Forestero cocoa beans
• Cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast.

The range of milk chocolates is topped with a single origin -

Rio Caribe 47%, made from the fruity Rio Caribe variety of Venezuelan cocoa beans

Other chocolates available from Lubeca are white chocolate (39.5% total fat), dietetic chocolates (made with fructose).

Organic chocolate couvertures, (dark, milk and white) made using cocoa beans from the Dominican Republic and Peru. All ingredients are organic.

Where vanilla is used, Lubeca use natural vanilla.

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