Personal relationships with our farming partners enable fair, direct and transparent trade according to the highest ethical principles. We pay our cultivation partners a price that is many times higher than the organic and fair trade price on the market.
All of our products come from sustainable cultivation in intact ecosystems. The majority of our products are certified according to the EU organic directive. Only our cultivation partners for our ceremonial cocoa in Mexico are currently without a certification since they rather invest their money in important things such as new seedlings, fermentation huts or bee colonies. They work far beyond organic cultivation and exceed requirements from EU organic certification.
All cultivation partners use traditional cultivation methods and do not use any pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. They are supported by traditional knowledge of living with nature, some of which dates back to the Olmec era, which precedes Mayan, Inka and Aztek culture. And this has been the case for many decades.
Ecosystem functions that produce clean water, fertile soil, breathtaking biodiversity, CO2 sinks and fresh air are intact there. This is exactly what we want to promote with Mangroovia Foods and expand further with your help!
Our packaging is classic kraft paper bags with a PET inner coating as an aroma seal. We decided against the PLA variant, which is certified for composting and scores at first glance with its biodegradability. We however decided against it because: Polylactides (PLA) are synthetically degradable plastics, not natural lactic acids. However, biodegradability is currently only realistic in industrial composting plants under high pressure and temperatures. And even there, PLA is usually sorted out and burned due to the short rotation times in commercial waste disposal plants. In home compost or even in garden compost, PLA acts like microplastics and represents a barrier for water, nutrients and living organisms. PLA is completely degraded at outside temperatures and normal pressure over decades or longer at most. In addition, ecotoxicology has shown that PLA leads to metabolic disorders in living organisms. We therefore decided against this packaging variant. In contrast to PLA, PET can be recycled and reused in the circular economy in Germany without problems.
Furthermore, our colored labels are made of rock powder. This is currently the lowest-emission variant for labels in the world and has by far the lowest CO2 footprint and resource consumption.
