Amazingly Fresh Organic and Raw Chocolate

Long Island City, NY, April 27, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Gnosis Chocolate is the most exciting new chocolate company on the Cocoa Scene.

Started just over a year ago in March 2008, Gnosis Chocolate is 100% raw and organic. Entirely vegan, Gnosis is free of milk, as well as gluten, soy, and peanuts.

All of the company’s growth has been fueled by word-of-mouth, Vanessa Barg, the company’s young founder and President, has done no advertising. Without any marketing or assistants, stores in New York started requesting Gnosis Chocolate. She designed a label (in a Word document), added PayPal into her health counseling website, and began making chocolate.

Most recently, Whole Foods has requested Gnosis Chocolate. Already the 13 amazing flavors are carried in over one hundred stores across the country and are in stores as far as Cyprus, Sweden, and Germany.

What’s perhaps more amazing is that every part of the chocolate-making process is done by hand. There is not a single mechanized process at Gnosis. Chocolates are poured and packaged by hand. Chocolates are made in small batches, each containing the essential ingredient you can only get with handmade food: love. This ‘love’ element can be felt and tasted by those who try it.

Barg, now 24, first worked as a certified holistic health counselor. Wanting to give her clients something they’d be excited to eat in keeping with their healthy diet, Barg began mixing up her first batches of raw (not heated above 112°F) chocolate. All ingredients are minimally processed, close to their natural state. Agave is used as a sweetener as many people find cane sugar a trigger of compulsive eating.

Initially conflicted as to whether this chocolate could help bring people to better health, Barg soon got her answers as emails streamed in from thankful customers. Gnosis chocolate was helping them change their diet to avoid unhealthy sweets and choose foods full of nutrients.

Ingredients are selected for each flavor based on their nutritional prowess. The most potent superfoods are combined to complement the highest quality raw chocolate. Raw chocolate, itself, is one of the Top 10 superfoods. Each flavor starts out as Simplicity, the “plain” flavor, with the highest concentration of raw chocolate in the line. Besides cacao, it also has Crystal Manna, a blue-green mineral-rich algae, which contributes additional Phenethylamine (PEA), further enhancing this bar’s ability to improve mood, mental focus, and help people feel great.

The most brilliantly blended flavor is SuperChoc. A veritable nutritional powerhouse, SuperChoc contains over 20 herbs including: ashwaghanda, Siberian Ginseng, Ginkgo Biloba, and reishi mushroom extract. Theses are just a few of the adaptogens which help enhance endurance. There are also antioxidant-rich goji berries and açai powder.

Gnosis Chocolate has limited edition flavors regularly, with new flavors celebrating special events or the change in season. Check GnosisChocolate.com for new flavors and the ChocoBlog and get ready for some deliciously healthy intensity.

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