Teeccino's Vanilla Nut was created to use Mexican Vanilla grown as a rainforest crop by indigenous communities in Southern Mexico. Vanilla cultivation helps preserve the rainforest and its biodiversity by allowing second growth forest to regenerate. The shade trees growing over vanilla serve to reconnect the forest canopy. Primary forest can also become economically productive as vanilla vines are planted on existing trees. Vanilla provides a much needed cash crop to native people living in subsistence economic conditions at the edge of the rainforest.
Further deforestation is prevented as alternative sources for income crops is provided.
Vanilla cultivation is an agent for beneficial social change because it provides cooperative opportunities for individuals and for different communities to work together towards a common goal. It also offers valuable work for women and children who are otherwise limited in their ability to earn money. Teeccino also works with a cooperative of Mayan beekeepers to develop sales for their honey to North American manufacturers. Purchase of this honey directly supports the families of the Mayan beekeepers, allowing them to export their honey through their own cooperative without any loss of profits to an intermediary. Teeccino is blended from entirely natural ingredients.