Join Seleno Health at Napier’s much-loved wholefoods shop for an evening devoted to cacao — its origins, traditions, production, its science, and two new products made with reverence for the plant and the people who grow it.

We are launching our brand new Gut Happy Chocolate and Cacao Shansho: bean-to-bar chocolate crafted to nourish the gut–brain connection, and a rare ancestral cacao from Peru that is washed rather than fermented so its natural bioactives stay intact. Learn more at selenohealth.com.

The evening includes

A presentation on the neuroscience of cacao and chocolate with Dr Corin Storkey - how cacao makes us feel happy.

History and storytelling of cacao with Sally Huapaya (Peru)

Chocolate tastings

A hot Cacao Shansho elixir to sample

This is for anyone who wants to go deeper with cacao — its origins, biodiversity, processing and production, and how it works in the brain — as well as those who simply want beautiful samples and a warm evening among chocolate loving community.

Tickets by koha

Entry is by koha to help recover from a customs loss we faced in April on our cacao shipment. Every ticket not only helps our family business recover from the financial loss we faced at the hands of US customs agents but also puts you in the draw to win 1 of 5 prize packs, including:

a block of Shansho

a block of Gut Happy Chocolate

a jar of yacon

a jar of cacao nectar

a bag of macambo beans

Come taste, listen, and celebrate cacao as food, medicine and story.

Tuesday 22 September · 5.30–7.00pm

Chantal Shop Napier

45 Hastings Street, Bluff Hill, Napier 4110