Cacao Paste, Cacao Powder, Coffee, and “Ceremonial” Cacao

Cacao Paste, Cacao Powder, Coffee, and “Ceremonial” Cacao

Soma Cacao is a whole-bean cacao paste designed for daily drinking. We use the entire cacao bean, including the naturally occurring cacao butter, and work directly with small farms to source single-origin cacao that can...
Cacao vs Coffee vs Matcha

Cacao vs Coffee vs Matcha

The biochemistry behind your morning drink and how to choose what is right for you There is no one size fits all approach to our health. Genetics, physiology and nervous system sensitivity all play a...
What's the deal with Fat and Ceremonial Cacao?

What's the deal with Fat and Ceremonial Cacao?

  Dear Somastylers,   Please forgive us!   Last week we sent an email saying cacao contained 40% fibre by mass. This was wrong! The truth is that Soma Cacao contains roughly 15-20% fibre by...
How Ceremonial Cacao Boosts Fibre Intake and Gut Health

How Ceremonial Cacao Boosts Fibre Intake and Gut Health

  Gentle Somi, You have trillions of little creatures living in your colon. That’s not an insult – that’s science. Every human being has around 100 trillion microorganisms in their digestive tract, which means there...
Breaking Down Self-Care with Soma

Breaking Down Self-Care with Soma

The term “me-time” first appeared around 1980 in magazines aimed at working mothers (a new demographic then) trying find a balance between the demands of employment and family life. Life has only gotten busier in...
Magnificent Magnesium! Proudly brought to you by Soma Cacao.

Magnificent Magnesium! Proudly brought to you by Soma Cacao.

Dear Somatisers,   One of our nerdiest joys is reading research papers on cacao and the way it works in our bodies. We hope that, in our emails, we’ve painted a picture of what your...
Chocolate's journey from junk food to superfood

Chocolate's journey from junk food to superfood

Dear Somatics,   It’s curious how popular chocolate is.   It’s made from a weird fruit found in the South American jungle; by itself it’s astringent and bitter; it requires fermenting, roasting, sun-drying, conching, and...
Stem Cells, Cacao & The Five Health-Defence Systems

Stem Cells, Cacao & The Five Health-Defence Systems

In his book Eat to Beat Disease, Dr William Li recommends eating foods that “switch on” the body’s natural health-defence systems, helping the body protect, repair, and regenerate itself.  The five health-defence systems he identifies are...
What the devil is an antioxidant?

What the devil is an antioxidant?

More ground-breaking journalism by Soma Almost everyone on planet Earth seems to have heard about antioxidants by now. They seem to be everywhere - in the news, in studies, in magazines, in spinach. Antioxidants, like...