Your guide to brands selling ethically-sourced fair trade chocolate.

When it comes to revolutionizing the cocoa industry, your job is the easiest… and the tastiest.

You may not know it based on first glance, but chocolate products go through a lengthy process to earn the Fair Trade Certified™ seal. Producers and businesses we work with adhere to strict labor, environmental, and ethics standards that prohibit slavery and child labor and ensure cocoa growers receive a steady income, regardless of volatile market prices. It’s not an easy process. You can thank them for their commitment, and incentivize even more sustainably-made chocolate, by enjoying fair trade chocolate in its many forms, from chocolate bars, powders, and baking chips to ingredients in energy bars and snacks.

Satisfy your conscious craving and support the farmers who sweeten our lives by choosing one of these ethically sourced chocolate options. Whether you shop online or look for these brands in-store, be sure to look for the Fair Trade Certified label. Your purchase makes a difference!

More facts about fair trade chocolate:

  • 35 million pounds of Fair Trade Certified cocoa are imported from around the world annually, predominantly from the Ivory Coast, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador.
  • Through your purchase of Fair Trade Certified chocolate, millions of dollars have been invested back into cocoa producer communities, resulting in life-transforming projects, such as building schools in the Ivory Coast and improving access to education. Did you know the rate of child labor in cocoa growing communities is significantly lower when the quality of education is higher?
  • According to our reports, cocoa farmers earned more than $3.2 million in Community Development Funds within the span of one year.
A pink box of Sam's Choice Fair Trade Certified Belgian Chocolate Hearts, special for Valentine's Day

Sam's Choice

Belgian Chocolate Hearts

A Valentine's Day themed gift box from Chuao Chocolate that features passionate heart bonbons, dark chocolate seashells, tart cherry and hazelnut bark, and spicy maya hot chocolate.

Chuao

Ultimate Valentine’s Day Box

Bright pink resealable bag of Unreal's milk chocolate gem candies.

Unreal

milk chocolate gems

Organic Halloween Ocho Bars

OCHO

Organic Dark Chocolate Coconut Minis

Marich Fall Chocolate Caramels

Marich

Milk Chocolate Toffee Almonds

TCHO chocolate bars

TCHO

Sampler Gift Box
Williams Sonoma Birthday Bark

Williams Sonoma

Birthday Bark

Simple Truth Dark Chocolate Bark

Kroger - Simple Truth Organic

Dark Chocolate Bark
Chuao Mini Smores Chocolate Bars

Chuao Chocolatier

oh my s’mores! mini bars

Bake Believe

Semi-Sweet Baking Chips
Choceur Blueberry Acai

Aldi - Choceur

Choceur Superberries
Central Market HEB chocolate

Central Market HEB

Central Market Organic 36% Cacao Tofee & Sea Salt Milk Chocolate Bar

Natural Grocers

Organic Chocolate Truffles
Lake Champlain Chocolate Bars - Five Star

Lake Champlain

Five Star Bar Collection

kroger-simple-truth-organic-chocolate-bar

Simple Truth Organic

Fair Trade Chocolate Bars

Guittard Baking Wafers_Bittersweet

Guittard Chocolate Company

Bittersweet Chocolate Wafers – 74% Cacao

CACOCO

Mint Drinking Chocolate
A pink box of Sam's Choice Fair Trade Certified Belgian Chocolate Hearts, special for Valentine's Day

Sam's Choice

Belgian Chocolate Hearts

A Valentine's Day themed gift box from Chuao Chocolate that features passionate heart bonbons, dark chocolate seashells, tart cherry and hazelnut bark, and spicy maya hot chocolate.

Chuao

Ultimate Valentine’s Day Box

Bright pink resealable bag of Unreal's milk chocolate gem candies.

Unreal

milk chocolate gems

Organic Halloween Ocho Bars

OCHO

Organic Dark Chocolate Coconut Minis

Marich Fall Chocolate Caramels

Marich

Milk Chocolate Toffee Almonds

TCHO chocolate bars

TCHO

Sampler Gift Box
Williams Sonoma Birthday Bark

Williams Sonoma

Birthday Bark

Simple Truth Dark Chocolate Bark

Kroger - Simple Truth Organic

Dark Chocolate Bark
Chuao Mini Smores Chocolate Bars

Chuao Chocolatier

oh my s’mores! mini bars

Bake Believe

Semi-Sweet Baking Chips
Choceur Blueberry Acai

Aldi - Choceur

Choceur Superberries
Central Market HEB chocolate

Central Market HEB

Central Market Organic 36% Cacao Tofee & Sea Salt Milk Chocolate Bar

Natural Grocers

Organic Chocolate Truffles
Lake Champlain Chocolate Bars - Five Star

Lake Champlain

Five Star Bar Collection

Little Secrets Mini Wafers

Little Secrets

Dark Chocolate & Sea Salt Crispy Wafers
kroger-simple-truth-organic-chocolate-bar

Simple Truth Organic

Fair Trade Chocolate Bars

Guittard Baking Wafers_Bittersweet

Guittard Chocolate Company

Bittersweet Chocolate Wafers – 74% Cacao

CACOCO

Mint Drinking Chocolate