As more and more people become familiar with, and are drawn to the vegan lifestyle, they soon wonder where they can buy vegan chocolate, specifically, vegan chocolate chips. The fact of the matter is, there are many places, both in cyberspace and the real world, that cater to those following a vegan path but who don’t want to give up one of nature’s most wondrous dainties. After all, chocolate is more than merely a delicious treat -- it is a superfood, full of antioxidants, and a great source of healthy energy -- but it’s traditionally made using some amount of milk, which vegans cannot consume. Naturally, vegans with a sweet tooth are bound to seek an alternative. So where, then, to buy vegan chocolate?

I’ve looked extensively online, only to realize that many vendors offer either no vegan chocolate chips at all, or ones that are decidedly low in quality, and which may not be strictly vegan. As a general rule, if you want to buy vegan chocolate that is the real deal, look for products with a short list of ingredients, as well as those that don't list any artificial additives or fillers with unpronounceable names. Chocolate that contains only a few natural ingredients is more likely to be vegan chocolate.

Highly processed commercial chocolate usually contains a long list of filler ingredients, including milk powder, whey powder, artificial flavorings, dyes, and refined sweeteners such as high fructose corn syrup. We're betting that none of these ingredients are things you want in your chocolate, vegan or otherwise! All-natural vegan chocolate contains very few ingredients in comparison: a chocolate that is truly vegan will contain cocoa powder, cocoa butter (made from caco nibs, a raw form of chocolate), soy lethicin, vanilla, and a natural sweetener such as sugar, stevia, or evaporated cane juice. These five ingredients are all that's needed to make unbelievably delicious and all-natural vegan chocolate!

Of course, I can’t speak to what every manufacturer offers, but I can tell you this: Kona Kava Farm is an excellent source of several varieties of vegan chocolate, including unbelievably good vegan chocolate chips. This chocolate is a small miracle: it’s all-natural, organic, vegan, and very, very tasty! There is a perception (which many would say is based in fact) that vegan versions of many normally non-vegan products simply don’t match up as far as goes taste. What Kona Kava Farm has brought us, however, is an inversion of that rule. Not only are these vegan chocolates, including the vegan chocolate chips, as good as the normal varieties, they are actually much better. Indeed, many people I have given samples of these chocolates to are shocked by how good they are, and immediately wish to know where they can be obtained.

Besides the fact that we actually offer no-frills vegan chocolate chips (upon investigation, it seems that many vendors offer every variety of vegan chocolate EXCEPT chips!), strict vegans will be happy to know that, unlike many varieties of vegan chocolate offered in stores, these chips use only stevia and dehydrated cane juice, avoiding the heavily refined sugars that other manufacturers often favor. These chips are truly vegan; we bring you the highest-quality chocolate for a fair price, and without cutting any corners.

Kona Kava Farm offers several unique forms in which to buy vegan chocolate. The organic vegan chocolate, which comes in the form of vegan chocolate chips, is made from 87.5 percent pure chocolate, and contains only cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, stevia, and dehydrated cane juice. It is one of the purest -- and most delicious -- vegan chocolates on the market today. And at 87.5 percent pure cocoa, one of the healthiest, too!

For those of you who are raw foodists, or are simply curious about chocolate in its unadulterated form, Kona Kava Farm also offers raw vegan cacao nibs. In their raw form, vegan chocolate chips are one of the most effective superfoods, with an extremely high antioxidant content, and also boasting an ability to amplify positive feelings, as well as physical energy.

Perhaps one of the most unique varieties of chocolate we offer are our organic vegan “sun chips.” These vegan chocolate chips combine our best vegan chocolate with maca -- a powerful adaptogenic root, reputedly the source of the Incan army’s legendary strength, which has clinically-proven health benefits -- and sunflower oil, resulting in a splendid dainty that is not only very healthy and delicious, but wholly unique in the world of vegan chocolate. (More on the remarkable health benefits of Maca root).

Yet another vegan treat offered by Kona Kava Farm is our organic vegan coffee drops. For those who wish to buy vegan chocolate, yet are after something a little different, these are hard to beat. These vegan chocolate chips combine our regular vegan chocolate with an infusion of Kona coffee for a truly sublime chocolate experience. Like the maca/sunflower sun chips, these coffee drops allow you to enjoy pure vegan chocolate while still venturing a little off the beaten path.

So, now that you know that you can buy vegan chocolate -- real vegan chocolate -- made with the highest-quality ingredients, as well as the utmost care, what are you waiting for? Nature has given unto our planet such a bounty of foods, as well as the ingenuity to combine them effectively, that there is simply no reason any vegan need do without one of life’s true pleasures -- grabbing a handful of utterly delicious vegan chocolate chips right out of the bag.