The Harvest Journey
From a wild Cerrado tree to your front door — six verifiable stages, one lot code, full EU-grade traceability. No mystery middlemen.
Stage 01 · Cerrado · Goiás & Tocantins, Brazil
Jul – Oct
Wild harvest
Fully ripe baru pods drop from established Dipteryx alata trees onto the savannah floor. Two family cooperatives — based around Pirenópolis (GO) and Palmas (TO) — gather them by hand. No tree is felled. No plantation, no irrigation, no pesticide.
Documentation: GPS-tagged harvest zones · Cooperative membership rosters on file
Stage 02 · Cooperative facility · Goiás
+ 7 days
Shelling & sorting
Pods are cracked, the single seed is extracted, sorted by hand, and rejected for damage, mould or discolouration. Each batch is weighed, photographed and assigned a cooperative lot code that travels with the nut for the rest of its life.
Documentation: Lot code issued · Manual visual QA log
Stage 03 · Partner roastery · Goiânia, Brazil
+ 14 days
Heat-treatment & roast
Raw baru contains a trypsin inhibitor and must be heat-treated. Our roaster runs a calibrated profile (180 °C, monitored core temperature) that fully deactivates the inhibitor while preserving polyphenols. The salted variant adds nothing but Atlantic sea salt.
Documentation: HACCP-compliant facility · Roast curve archived per lot
Stage 04 · Brazil · pre-export
+ 21 days
Packaging & lab check
Nuts are vacuum-sealed in resealable, food-grade pouches. A composite sample from every export lot is tested by an accredited Brazilian lab for moisture, aflatoxin and microbiology before any shipment leaves the country.
Documentation: Aflatoxin certificate (< 4 µg/kg EU limit) · Moisture report
Stage 05 · Santos, BR → Rotterdam, NL
+ 35–45 days
Shipping to the EU
Sea freight in a temperature-stable container, then customs clearance into the EU through Rotterdam. EU import documentation (health certificate, commercial invoice, bill of lading) is filed and retained for five years per food-law requirements.
Documentation: EU import declaration · Cold-chain logger summary
Stage 06 · Warehouse · Netherlands → You
+ 1–2 days
Fulfilment to your door
Orders are picked, packed and dispatched from our Netherlands warehouse within one business day. EU and UK delivery typically arrives in 2–5 working days with full tracking. The lot code printed on your pack lets us trace the bag back through every stage above.
Documentation: Order ID + tracking · Lot code printed on every pack
Standards we work to
Traceability isn't a marketing word here — it's a regulatory requirement we inherit as an EU food business operator. We comply with these explicitly:
EU Regulation 1881/2006
Aflatoxin limits — every lot tested
EU 178/2002 (General Food Law)
Full one-step-up / one-step-down traceability
HACCP
Hazard analysis at every processing stage
Cerrado origin declaration
Single biome, no plantation, wild-harvested
Trace your bag
Every pack carries a lot code printed near the best-before date. Email it to us and we'll send back the cooperative of origin, harvest window, roast date and aflatoxin certificate for that exact batch — usually within one working day.
Request a lot trace →