Thank you for stopping by. If you came here to order some delicious cacao fruit juice, I have to disappoint you: Pacha de Cacao stopped in 2026, and the shop is closed for good.

 

A bit of background. Pacha de Cacao launched in 2020 with one idea: cacao farmers throw away the sweet pulp around the beans, because the industry only wants the beans. We turned that pulp into a juice, bottled it, and paid farmers in Ecuador for fruit that would otherwise have rotted on the ground. It worked, in a niche. It did not work at the scale a drinks brand needs to survive, and I decided to close it properly rather than let it fade out.

 

I am still in cocoa – of course I am 😃 Pacha started out of a idea to bring innovation to help farmers to a higher, and more diversified income, and that goal is not finished!

 

If you like to read more, I put the lessons from Pacha into a founders handbook that you can read for free on this site. If you were a customer, a stockist or an fan: thank you. You were part of what got us this far!

 

Questions, or just want to say hello? marika@movingcocoa.com, or find me on LinkedIn.

 

Marika van Santvoort