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Ecuadorian cacao ingredients & product development

Produce
with us.

Help us create the change Ecuador needs.

From Ecuadorian Fino de Aroma cacao to your next ingredient, chocolate, or finished product.

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Purpose-led productionOrigin, science, products, and international reach.
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Current foundation

Experience, relationships, reach.

30+*Years of experienceA current-site figure requiring confirmation against the company timeline.
12*Producer organizations profiledOrganizations represented in the audited community dataset.
4*International destinations shownPrototype export destinations retained from the current website.

* Current-site figures are centralized for business verification before launch.

Raw cacao & product development

Choose the material.
We help shape what comes next.

Five clear starting points for an ingredient request, industrial application, or custom formulation.

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Cacao Paste

Pure Fino de Aroma cacao mass: the foundation for premium chocolate.

Chocolate making · industrial formulations

A point of view
from Ecuador

“Ecuador has the capabilities to feed the world. The world has realized that; our country hasn’t.”

Jose Valdivieso
Founder

Who we are

A family-owned bridge from Ecuadorian soil to the global stage.

From our home in Quito, MotMot brings together cacao knowledge, chocolate craft, responsible production, and next-generation technology.

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Our mission

Improve our country, support our people, and prove that the best chocolate in the world does not just come from Ecuador—it is crafted here.

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Our vision

Show farmers, families, and the world what is possible when technology meets the best cacao on earth.

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Empowering communities

Origin begins with the people who grow it.

The producer network is more than an impact statement. It holds local knowledge, traceability context, and the sensory diversity behind Ecuadorian cacao.

Meet the communities
Origin network

Select an origin.
Read its cacao.

Explore the producer organizations behind MotMot’s origin network. Select a marker to connect the community’s story, dominant notes, and recorded sensory profile.

Capability in practice

One origin.Many expressions.

Aroma Ecuador turns Ecuadorian cacao and coffee into finished products with a clear identity and a practical path to market.

Our own showcase of what thoughtful product development can become.Develop a product with us
Chocolate bars from the Aroma Ecuador range
Ecuadorian chocolateChocolate bars

Finished chocolate formats developed around Ecuadorian cacao.

ChocolateSpecialty productsCoffeePersonal care
Quality & documentation

Complex food-safety requirements.
Clear buyer documentation.

Group MotMot works within established food-safety and regulatory systems so professional buyers can evaluate products, processes, and export readiness with confidence.

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FDA food-safety or regulatory mark

FDA

U.S. market readiness and facility documentation for buyer qualification.

Documentation available during buyer qualification
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BPM food-safety or regulatory mark

BPM

Good Manufacturing Practices embedded in controlled food production.

Documentation available during buyer qualification
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HACCP food-safety or regulatory mark

HACCP

Hazard analysis and preventive controls across the production process.

Documentation available during buyer qualification
Working all over the world

Made in Ecuador.
Built to travel.

Follow the route from our Ecuador production point to current international destination markets.

Origin

EcuadorProduction & export point
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Have a product idea, sourcing question, or partnership in mind? Work with us, join our journey, and tell us what you want to create. The essentials are enough to begin.

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Ideas with origin.

Ideas, field knowledge, cacao culture, and company perspectives from the people behind the work.

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Build the next expression of Ecuadorian cacao.

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