{"id":49922,"date":"2019-11-08T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=49922"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:59:40","slug":"auro-chocolate-ph-wins-top-20-best-cacao-beans-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/11\/08\/auro-chocolate-ph-wins-top-20-best-cacao-beans-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Auro Chocolate PH Wins Top 20 Best Cacao Beans in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Auro Chocolate<\/strong> was recently recognized by an international award-giving body, making it to the <strong>Top 20 International Cocoa Awards 2019<\/strong> at the <strong>Salon Du Chocolat in Paris<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49923\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/11\/Untitled-design-79.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/11\/Untitled-design-79.png 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/11\/Untitled-design-79-290x218.png 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/11\/Untitled-design-79-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/11\/Untitled-design-79-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE Auro Chocolate\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bringing honor to the country&#8217;s cacao sector, Auro Chocolate produces proudly Filipino chocolates made of beans directly sourced from Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this brand exceptional is that they buy beans for a higher price with an aim to support and give opportunities to Filipino farmers.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Auro brought one of their original farming partners, <strong>Mr. Jose Sugban<\/strong>, who personally received the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4QmOrhnCDP\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s been a long journey since we started working with Mang Jose who was trained by our resident expert Louie on quality and proper fermentation,&#8221; Auro Chocolate said in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/filipino-chocolate-auro-opens-their-first-official-store-in-tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Filipino Chocolate Auro Opens Their First Official Store in Tokyo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The brand also expressed their gratitude to Mang Jose for his great effort to provide world-class chocolates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to Mang Jose for his hard work, dedication, and motivation to keep getting better! What a great moment for the Philippines and Filipino farmers!&#8221; the brand added.<\/p>\n<p>This award is a great accomplishment to the country&#8217;s cacao industry, especially that the Philippines was able to make it to the top 20. There were 223 cocoa samples submitted from 55 countries, with 50 entries being shortlisted.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Auro Cacao won the first prize at the 11th Academy of Chocolate Awards 2019. Along with them is Bohol&#8217;s best Dalareich Food Products.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/dalareich-auro-win-gold-in-london-academy-of-chocolate-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dalareich, Auro Win Gold in London Academy of Chocolate Awards<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocoaofexcellence.org\/-press-release-2019\" target=\"_blank\">2019 International Cocoa Award<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Featured image grabbed from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aurochocolate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Auro Chocolate<\/a> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auro Chocolate made it to the Top 20 International Cocoa Awards 2019 at the Salon Du Chocolat in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11544,11545,11543,11546,11547,11548],"class_list":["post-49922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-auro-chocolate-award","tag-auro-chocolate-ph","tag-auro-chocolate-win-top-20-best-cacao-beans-in-the-world","tag-auro-ph-at-salon-du-chocolat","tag-auro-ph-won-in-paris","tag-auro-philippines-2019"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/11\/Untitled-design-79.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49922"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49941,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922\/revisions\/49941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}