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Certified Organic Instant Hot Cocoa Low Fat Rich, Milk Chocolate Taste!! With a history that dates back to the 1500's, hot cocoa has come a long way.  Over the years, this historic drink has made its mark on civilizations from all over the world.  The earliest version was pioneered by the Aztecs, served cold, and much different than the beverage we enjoy today.  In its most primitive days, roasted cocoa beans were added to a mixture of wine and crushed chili peppers.  During the 18th century, European chocolate houses were becoming extremely popular.  It was there that British locals began adding steamed milk to their chocolate, and drinking it as a dessert beverage.  Shortly thereafter, cocoa powder was invented by the Dutch, making it easier to prepare the drink.  Today, hot cocoa is enjoyed by people young and old, from every walk of life.   NOW Certified Organic Instant Hot Cocoa puts an organic twist on one of the world's most time honored winter traditions.  This delicious, all natural drink mix is Certified Organic by QAI, mixes instantly, and is perfect for any occasion.  It has a rich, milk chocolate taste that we're sure you'll love.

Suggested Usage:  Add 2 tablespoons of NOW Organic Hot Cocoa Mix to 6 oz. of hot water or low-fat milk, and mix completely.  To enjoy as a refreshing "Chocolate Milk", mix with cold water or low-fat milk.   Ingredients:  Organic Turbinado Sugar, Organic Non-Fat Dry Milk, Organic Natural Cocoa Powder, Organic Vanilla Flavor, Sea Salt and Xanthan Gum.  

Contains no:  starch, yeast, wheat, gluten, corn, soy, egg, shellfish or preservatives.   This product is sold by weight, not volume.   Store in a cool, dry place.  Please Recycle.

  Certified Organic by Quality Assurance International (QAI).

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The NOW mission is - To provide value in products and services that empower people to lead healthier lives. NOW Foods is an award-winning and highly respected manufacturer of vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements and natural foods.

In 1948, with the natural food and supplement industry in its infancy, entrepreneur Paul Richard paid $900 for the purchase of Fearn Soya Foods aChicago based manufacturer of grain and legume-based products. This began a six-decade legacy of providing health-seeking consumers with high-quality, affordable nutrition products.

History of NOW
In 1968, NOW Foods was founded under the belief that good health was not a luxury available only to the wealthy. For the past forty years, NOW has made it their life's work to offer health food and nutritional supplements of the highest quality, at prices that are fair and affordable to all those who seek them. Today, NOW Foods is one of the top-selling brands in health foods stores, an award-winning manufacturer, a respected advocate of the natural product industry, and a leader in the fields of nutritional science and methods development. And while NOW has grown considerably over the past four decades, one thing has never changed; NOW's commitment to providing products and services that empower people to lead healthier lives.

NOW Commitments
Customer Focused and Information Driven - NOW believes that their products, services, and the decisions they make should be primarily influenced by the desires and needs of NOW customers. NOW endeavors to produce the highest quality products at competitive prices. NOW's first priority is to maintain quality where it counts the most in the products.

NOW's exceptional cost-conscious team of employees then focuses their energies on driving costs down. Nurturing this competency of value drives NOW's ability to provide high quality products at the very best prices.

Natural is Better - NOW is convinced that natural products are better than their synthetic counterparts and produce better results in human health. Therefore, wherever possible, NOW strives to provide products that contain natural ingredients because they are better for their customers.

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NOW's experienced professional and technical staff formulates their products to be of the highest quality. NOW has a group of biochemists, chemists, nutritionists, and food technologists who review current science and nutritional parameters, and formulate our products to be effective for the intended use. NOW's structure/function claims are based on science for active ingredients, and on nutritional science for nutritional content. Serving sizes are based on doses from clinical studies and other published data. NOW's contemporary formulas are designed to meet the health and wellness needs of today's consumers. NOW uses ingredients that have been tested for effectiveness in clinical trials and laboratory studies. The heart of NOW Science is third party independent research. NOW investigates and review clinical studies and other lab studies conducted on their ingredients and their formulas. Best science is used to support best formulations which lead to best quality. NOW products are constantly being tested in clinical trials conducted at top universities and research centers around the country and in various parts of the world. NOW products are being tested to determine such things as effectiveness for joint support, quality of life for cancer patients, cardiovascular support, and athletic endurance. Effective products mean health and wellness benefits, which mean quality.

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Brand: NOW Foods
Instant Hot Cocoa - 24 oz.