Hive Five™ Certified
No need to guess what's in your food or how it was made. Our experts vet every product for ingredient integrity, responsible sourcing, and great taste using our own criteria called the Hive Five.
Most of their suppliers are small-scale family farmers that they've partnered with through long-standing relationships, educational opportunities, and financial assistance. TCHO's products do not contain ingredients on Hive's No Good, Dirty Rotten list of banned and watch list ingredients.
TCHO is going totally vegan because plant-based foods bypass the resource-heavy production impacts of the industrial animal and dairy industries thereby lowering the carbon footprint of those foods.
TCHO bars use with fully recyclable paper cartons and wraps made from layers of post-consumer waste paper and compostable film.
TCHO has donated $1, annually to the African Cocoa Initiative II, a project focused on improving West African cocoa supply chains.
Our team personally tests every product to make sure it’s good enough to end up in your home, not a landfill.
Ingredient
Integrity
Most of their suppliers are small-scale family farmers that they've partnered with through long-standing relationships, educational opportunities, and financial assistance. TCHO's products do not contain ingredients on Hive's No Good, Dirty Rotten list of banned and watch list ingredients.
Low Carbon
Footprint
TCHO is going totally vegan because plant-based foods bypass the resource-heavy production impacts of the industrial animal and dairy industries thereby lowering the carbon footprint of those foods.
Recyclable
Packaging
TCHO bars use with fully recyclable paper cartons and wraps made from layers of post-consumer waste paper and compostable film.
Committed to Social Good
TCHO has donated $1, annually to the African Cocoa Initiative II, a project focused on improving West African cocoa supply chains.
Rave Worthy
Our team personally tests every product to make sure it’s good enough to end up in your home, not a landfill.
Goldie
How it does good
TCHO Source is TCHO's unique program for partnering with cacao producers and research institutions worldwide to create a better cacao bean, because better cacao means better chocolate and a better industry. And it's not just about the quality and taste of the cacao beans; it's how they're grown, harvested, roasted, and moved along every point along the supply chain—beginning to end and everything in between. A highlight of the TCHO Source program is the TCHO Flavor Lab, a mini bean-to-bar chocolate-making lab where farmers can take cacao beans they grow and make chocolate from them on the spot. When a partner farmer hits TCHO's high standards on quality, they pay the farmer a TCHO Quality Premium on top of the fair trade and organic premiums they already pay.
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Recycling
These are general guidelines for broadly-recyclable materials. Check with your local recycler to confirm what they take.
Third Party Certifications
TCHO
TCHO is on a mission to create the most delicious chocolate, in the most safe and ethical way. Over the years, TCHO has won over 30 awards, ranging from best organic bar to best dark chocolate with inclusions. That's all thanks to TCHO working closely with their farmer partners to lead with curiosity and even innovate through technology—which is no mystery to founders Timothy Childs, NASA tech-wizard, and Karl Bittong, 40-year chocolate vet. One of the main reasons TCHO is where it is today is because of Brad Kintzer, the Chief Chocolate Maker, expert taster, and industry leader in cacao sensory analysis. He's led TCHO's chocolate-making for over a decade and has helped pioneer new systems that allow TCHO to put quality first—for the benefit of the chocolate, the cacao farmers, and the planet we call home.
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