MARQUISE PISTACHE (Bulk box +/-3.134 kg. - 208 chocolates)

The Marquise Pink (Patented)

A unique pink chocolate made in the shape of a wellknown 'diamond cut'
The Marquise diamond cut originates out of King Louis XV of France's wish to create a diamond resembling the lips of his wife Maria.
Later the oval diamond cut became a smymbol for showing off the noble rank.

It is a plain chocolate made with 100 % Ruby chocolate.

Ruby chocolate is a variety of chocolate introduced in 2017 by Barry Callebaut, a Belgian-Swiss cocoa company. The variety has been in development since 2004. It was unveiled at a private event in Shanghai on 5 September 2017.

The chocolate is made from the "ruby cocoa bean". "Ruby beans" are existing botanical cocoa bean varieties that have been identified as having the right attributes to be processed into ruby chocolate.

The chocolate's taste is described as "sweet yet sour", with "little to none" of the cocoa flavour traditionally associated with other varieties of chocolate.

With the production methods being kept a trade secret and the use of genetic modification denied by Barry Callebaut, publications note industry speculation that ruby chocolate is made with unfermented cocoa beans, which can have a natural red-pinkish colour. The company also registered a patent in 2009 for "cocoa-derived material" from unfermented cocoa beans (or beans fermented for no more than three days) that become red or purple after treating them with an acid and then defatting with petroleum ether.