Bennetto Natural Foods Co.

Bennetto Natural Foods Co. Committed to making delicious chocolate that benefits everyone. Climate Positive, Organic, Fairtrade, Bennetto Natural Foods co. The result?

We are a small company with a big vision and a love of all things natural, especially when it comes to food. Our passion and transparency can be tasted in the quality and flavour of what we produce. began in 2010, when Lucy Bennetto, a high school English and Drama teacher, started making raw cacao chocolate at home as a healthier treat. With a grant from TechNZ to develop her recipes further, she

soon became passionate about the art and science of chocolate making, learning about the true benefits of quality dark chocolate, and most importantly, the implications of ethical sourcing. In 2011, Lucy made her first trip to the Dominican Republic to understand firsthand the ‘ins and outs’ of the sustainable cocoa supply chain. A myriad of new, high quality dark chocolate original recipes – the very first of which to the market is the Bennetto Drinking Chocolate Bar– an organic, sustainably sourced, premium quality, dark drinking chocolate bar, crafted especially to melt and blend well into hot milk. Our chocolate is Fairtrade certified, our chocolate ingredients are entirely organic and even the grey foil wrapper is made from renewable bio-degradable resources, you can place it on your worm-farm! Our hope is that our products have a positive, feel-good impact on people and the environment. We do this through producing great quality and innovative real chocolate from all natural ingredients and ethical direct sourcing.

Head to Coeliac New Zealand's's page to enter and spread awareness 💝
18/06/2026

Head to Coeliac New Zealand's's page to enter and spread awareness 💝

This Coeliac Awareness Week, we’re recognising the extra care that can come with everyday food choices for people with c...
17/06/2026

This Coeliac Awareness Week, we’re recognising the extra care that can come with everyday food choices for people with coeliac disease. From reading labels and checking ingredients, asking questions, and trusting that what they choose has been made with care.

Coeliac New Zealand estimates that coeliac disease affects around 100,000 New Zealanders, including around 30,000 children, with many people still undiagnosed.

At Bennetto, having our range Coeliac New Zealand certified is one small way we can help make chocolate a little easier to enjoy.

It means it's one less label to second-guess 😊

Our notes on Bennetto. What are your notes?P.S. They could get featured in a future post 🤫
14/06/2026

Our notes on Bennetto. What are your notes?

P.S. They could get featured in a future post 🤫

Today is World Day Against Child Labour.This year’s campaign theme is “Red card to child labour: Fair play for children,...
11/06/2026

Today is World Day Against Child Labour.

This year’s campaign theme is “Red card to child labour: Fair play for children, decent work for adults”, which is a reminder that children should be protected from harmful work and supported to learn, grow and thrive.

For chocolate, this matters.

Chocolate begins with cocoa, and cocoa begins in agriculture. In farming communities, child labour risks can be connected to poverty, unsafe work, barriers to education, and pressure on families.

Child labour is not the same as a child helping with light, age-appropriate tasks at home. It refers to work that can harm a child’s safety, education, development or childhood.

At Bennetto, we believe chocolate should never come at the cost of a child’s safety, education or future. Our Child Labour & Pesticide Exposure Policy helps guide us in how we approach this responsibility across our cocoa supply chain, alongside our commitment to Fairtrade and organic certified sourcing, due diligence, audit review, monitoring and remediation.

No system is perfect, and this is not something that can be solved in a single post. But fairer incomes, access to education, transparency, monitoring and accountability all matter.

Today, we’re raising the red card to child labour, and continuing to support a fairer way forward.

Read more about our Child Labour & Pesticide Exposure Policy here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:6b0cd8d5-478a-4353-b001-e7fe68c80ed6

Choose an emoji. Follow the line. Find your fate 👀🔮No cheating.Tell us what you got below ⬇️And make sure to tag a frien...
10/06/2026

Choose an emoji. Follow the line. Find your fate 👀🔮

No cheating.

Tell us what you got below ⬇️

And make sure to tag a friend so they can discover their fate too...

🍫 Tuesday dilemma...You can only choose one:🍊 Orange with Chillior🌰 Toasted Hazelnut
09/06/2026

🍫 Tuesday dilemma...

You can only choose one:

🍊 Orange with Chilli
or
🌰 Toasted Hazelnut

In case you didn't see 🤎
08/06/2026

In case you didn't see 🤎

SIMPLY THE BEST 🍫The annual 2026 Chocolate Scorecard has just been released, and Benetto Chocolate has placed in the highest tier (Green band) of the global chocolate industry! 🎉🌏

Benetto's Swiss manufacturer of 9 years, was also ranked the number one ethical chocolate manufacturer in the world!

The Chocolate Scorecard is the chocolate industry's independent annual sustainability assessment. It is coordinated by Be Slavery Free. Each year, it scores chocolate companies across seven categories: traceability and transparency, living income, child and forced labour, deforestation, agroforestry and climate, pesticides, and gender. Results are presented as a traffic light system. Green for industry leaders, yellow and orange for companies on the journey, red for companies a long way off, and grey for companies that refuse to be assessed at all. And there are Bad Egg awards, for companies declining to participate.

Well done Lucy and the team at Bennetto, for working hard to provide us with the most ethical chocolate! (Whilst also not compromising on taste obviously! 😋)

Bennetto Natural Foods Co.

Are you an Orange with Chilli fan? 🍊🌶️If not, which flavour fan are you?If you are an Orange with Chilli fan, great news...
05/06/2026

Are you an Orange with Chilli fan? 🍊🌶️

If not, which flavour fan are you?

If you are an Orange with Chilli fan, great news! It's 15% off this whole month on our website. 🤗🔥

Grab yours today; shop link in bio.

04/06/2026

When someone asks what’s on my mind...
Me: 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫

Life is better with chocolate 😉🤎

This month’s Flavour of the Month is Orange with Chilli 🍊🌶️🍫With winter beginning to settle in, we thought this flavour ...
31/05/2026

This month’s Flavour of the Month is Orange with Chilli 🍊🌶️🍫

With winter beginning to settle in, we thought this flavour was the perfect pick for the season.

Rich organic dark chocolate, vibrant orange oil, and a gentle chilli warmth that builds as you eat.

A little citrusy, a little spicy, and perfect for cooler evenings.

Enjoy 15% off online all month long - no code needed ✨

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96 Oxford Terrace
Christchurch
8011

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