CACAO BARS
River cacao bars: two or three ingredients, no added sugar
Shiro, Amara, Stop, Fragile and Tato are about simple ingredient ratios first: milk, cacao, coconut milk and cocoa butter.
Shiro
A white cacao-butter bar with only two ingredients and no added sugar: 2/3 milk powder and 1/3 cocoa butter. Creamy, minimal and naturally more paste-like than sugary white bars.
Few ingredientsOnly two or three ingredients depending on the bar: cacao, milk powder, coconut milk powder or cocoa butter.
Foil firstEvery bar is wrapped in aluminum foil before the paper layer to help protect aroma and edibility.
No added sugarThe sweetness and character come from the ingredient balance, not from added sugar.
Cacao bar guides
PACKAGING
Fragile is supposed to arrive broken
A thin paper-and-cardboard package lowers shipping volume and material use instead of adding bulky protection around a thin bar.
INGREDIENTS
Why Amara uses milk powder instead of added sugar
The question was texture: cacao needed body and natural lactose sweetness, not a separate sweetener.
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Stop
The first standalone River cacao bar: vegan, bitter and built around 62% cacao with 38% coconut milk powder. The same rounded 62/38 proportion shapes the bar, while the coconut fat gives it a clean melt-in-the-mouth texture.
Amara
A bitter milk-cacao bar for people who like dark profiles: 2/3 cacao and 1/3 milk powder, with no added sugar. It lands close to an 80% dark character, but the softening ingredient is milk, not plain sugar.
Fragile
A three-ingredient cacao bar with no added sugar, designed to arrive broken on purpose. Fragile turns a shipping problem into the format: thinner packaging, less waste and pieces that are meant to be shared.
Tato
A three-ingredient cacao bar inspired by childhood creamy milk bars, but with cleaner ingredients and no added sugar. Amara and Shiro are the parents; Fragile is half of each; Tato is the next generation, closer to Shiro.
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