Not all cacao is created equal 🍫🌱 While the market is dominated by CCN-51 strain, at The Cacao Portal we pride in working with Heirloom strains.
What’s the difference? ❓
CCN-51 is a high-yield hybrid bred for productivity — fast growing, disease-resistant, and uniform.
Heirloom cacao, on the other hand, carries ancestral genetics: rare, biodiverse, flavor-rich strains that hold the original chemistry, aroma, and soul of the cacao tree.
One is built for mass production.
The other is grown...
