The Hacienda Flandes is a Colombian based company that works hand by hand in association with fellow macadamia nut farmers located in the outskirts of the coffee triangle employing rural women and young adults.
Contribution: We strive to bring value and social impact to our community through a collective effort of good agricultural and manufacturing processes while respecting our environment and wildlife.
Products: We have created a family of differentiated flavours and textures from oils to snacks and confectionary products to attract awareness to a healthy eating habit.
Use: With our new developments the array of possibilities opens to create new food recepies, toppings or icecreams, desserts, dressings, beverages an many other innovative products made with dehydrated macadamia nuts.
No artificial flavours, added colors, additives nor preservatives.
Certification: GMP by SGS Colombia.
Food Safety Controls: We keep trace of the origin of our products throughout the supply chain with constant certified lab-testing results and point to point controls.
Each bag of MARTIAN ROCKS contains caramelized macadamia nut turrons covered with Dark tempered 85% cocoa chocolate.
Farming: It begins at the plantations with excellent fertilization, every day hand-labor and biological pest controls. We monitor aflatoxins in the field, heavy metals and nutrients in our soils. The water used to clean and wash the macadamia kernel is potable spring water from the high mountains of the Andes. The cocoa also come from fine cocoa varietals in Colombia.
Production process: Macadamia in-shell is cracked, selected, washed, dried and selected again for a 2-step quality inspection process to ensure the best quality nuts. Then is caramelized and each piece is covered individually with tempered cocoa.
Differentiation: Our products are not roasted, they are dehydrated, plus all of the nuts are fully washed and separated into high and low oil macadamia nuts. Only high-oil macadamia nuts are used. The caramel does not have glucose nor additives, only sugar and macadamia, and the cocoa is real chocolate with only 6 ingredients. Has no less than 50% macadamia.
Characteristics: High oil content macadamias are chrunchier and sweeter. Its appearance is dark black. They are not rancid. The chunks of chocolate have irregular shape and has the correct size for a single bite. Try them frozen, or unfrozen, either way is quite an experience.
Nutritional Value: Macadamia nuts have a high nutritional value for a good cardiovascular health, makes you feel fuller and contributes with dietary fiber and protein for a healthy diet and a better digestion. Dark cocoa on the other hand has also well known benefits like increase dopamine and endorphines and improve heart and brain health.
Enjoy as an snack or enhance your creativity! Use it as an ingredient for food recepies and desserts. See the pictures for some ideas.
Packaging: Black or transparent Doypacks, nitrogen flushed with an easy to close ziplock to reduce reproduction of bacteria, molds and yeasts.
100% Product of Colombia.
