Our native cacao beans and all other ingredients used in KAKAO are harvested from small, family-owned and operated, wild cacao farms in the jungles of Peru and Guatemala. Because our farmers cannot afford organic certification, our product is not certified organic. That being said, we can assure you that our ingredients are NEVER sprayed with any herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, or toxic fertilizers. The cacao trees, panela, chile and vanilla that produce our KAKAO are found growing wild in their natural habitat, deep in the jungle, far from any industrial influence.