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Is Raaka allergen-friendly? Is Raaka Chocolate nut, gluten, or dairy-free? Which products are certified bird-friendly?

Is Raaka allergen friendly? Are you nut, gluten, or dairy free?

Our products are gluten-free, dairy-free, and soy-free. We process coconut in our factory, which the FDA considers a tree nut, and use sesame in some seasonal products. Our products are nut-free with the exception of our Coconut Milk, Waffle Cones, P

Is your chocolate vegan?

You bet. All our bars are 100% vegan. Some dark chocolates still contain milk powder, but ours do not. Instead, we make a couple vegan "milk style" bars with oats and coconut.

Is your chocolate kosher certified?

Our chocolates are certified Kosher by Natural Food Certifiers.

Do you test your chocolate for heavy metals?

Raaka is committed to keeping our chocolate below Prop 65’s strict rules around lead and cadmium content in chocolate. We work with our partners at origin to ensure that the cacao we’re receiving is always improving to meet the ever-changing legislat

Which products are certified bird friendly?

Products featuring Dominican cacao from our partners at Zorzal Cacao, a 130-acre farm, fermentery, and exporter based inside a bird sanctuary called Reserva Zorzal. These bars are some of the first to be certified Smithsonian Bird Friendly! Look for

How much caffeine is in Raaka’s chocolate?

Chocolate, especially dark chocolate, contains a small quantity of caffeine and also theobromine, another stimulant. The levels may vary slightly based on the percentage of cacao in each of our bars, but roughly one bar will have about half the caffe

What is Transparent Trade?

Inside every Raaka bar we publish a report detailing our sourcing model. We call this model Transparent Trade. Each report shows the details of how we purchase cacao, who we buy it from, what we paid for it, and how that compares to the commodity mar

Where do you make your chocolate?

We make our chocolate from bean-to-bar at our factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn.