Brazil Nuts Candela - Peru

Share the delicious roasted taste of the Amazon with sustainably-harvested Brazil nuts that promote rainforest conservation. The amazing Brazil nut tree produces fruit/pods that each contain approximately 12-24 nuts. Our Brazil nuts are hand-picked and oven dried for a healthy snack that's 100% organic and rich in protein, selenium, magnesium and thiamine. 

• Each bag contains 225g Brazil nuts
• USDA certified Organic

We are at a time in the history of this world where global warming is destroying the planet, and the need to preserve the rainforest is of extreme importance.

The Brazil Nut tree only produces fruit in undisturbed forests. In addition to being high in selenium which benefits health, Organic, and Fair Trade; these nuts are helping to preserve the Amazon Rainforest.

As you eat these healthy nuts know that you are not only in harmony with protecting our environment and the world in which we live, but helping economically disadvantaged workers support themselves and their families through the principles of Fair and Compassionate Trade.

Harvested in Peru and Fair Trade imported.

Candela Peru Artisan Story

Madre de Dios, a mountainous area of pristine forests, is one of the poorest regions of Peru. The most lucrative industry here is the collection and processing of the Amazon (Brazil) nut into oils, candy and candles for export. Unfortunately, few producers are informed or rewarded for extracting the oil in a sustainable manner meaning the region's rates of rainforest destruction are almost as high as its poverty. 

Candela Peru is an alternative biotrade organization which began acting as a fair trade business in the brazil nut industry in 1989 in order to improve circumstances for this region of Peru.