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Amazonian Tonka bean doypack 250g LALY GOURMET
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This tonka bean is different, rarer, bigger and aromatically more pleasant. Untreated, it remains inside the fruit for several months, drying naturally and completely. Its fruit resembles a small mango but its flesh is curiously similar in taste to a Medjoul date. It grows on trees that can be well over a hundred years old (Brazilian teak) and shrinks as it dries while forming a hard shell. Its kernel, the tonka bean, is extracted by breaking this shell with a hammer or a sword. The risks of toxicity of the tonka bean are often mentioned and some countries have banned it at the initiative of the United States. But you would have to consume more of it than the balance of a recipe would allow for it to become harmful to health. In reality, it becomes toxic when it tastes indigestible. Dose wisely, tonka bean enhances the vanilla flavor of a recipe without distorting it. It is also credited with medicinal virtues known in the Colombian jungle. By buying these wild tonka beans, you contribute to the preservation of Amazonian biodiversity in Colombia by encouraging local ethnic groups to preserve their land with an income that helps them resist deforestation, coca cultivation... A On this subject, you should know that the cultivation of coca to produce cocaine pollutes the soil because drug traffickers use heaps of chemicals to accelerate the growth of plants before the Colombian military has time to uproot them. As for illegal mines, they destroy hectares of land to extract a few kilos of rare metals without any environmental control.
An exceptional and atypical tonka bean, cardamom and peppers from small producers imported directly from Colombia.
Romain Laly is a spice sourcer in the Amazon, in direct contact with certain ethnic groups in Colombia. It sources in particular a tonka bean of a different variety, rarer and aromatically more pleasant than the usual varieties. It is also visually larger. It also sources directly from small Colombian producers of green cardamom and peppers (black, red and white). By offering better incomes to Colombian farmers, we contribute together to the fight against deforestation, trafficking and illegal mines that are destroying the magnificent Colombian landscapes.See all products in this range
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a piece = 250 g