Cacao Magic is Planet Paleo’s answer to the oldest objection in supplements — “I’ll never keep it up” — dressed as hot chocolate. An indulgent blend of organic raw cacao and cocoa with coconut milk, vanilla and a whisper of sea salt, built on nourishing grass-fed Pure Collagen peptides: the comfort drink that happens to be a protein habit, 264 g to the tin.

Hot chocolate with a work ethic

The recipe reads like a proper chocolatier’s shortlist — raw cacao and cocoa (both organic) for depth, coconut milk powder for body, vanilla for roundness, sea salt because someone at Planet Paleo understands chocolate. Underneath, hydrolysed grass-fed bovine collagen supplies the amino acids collagen is famous for, dissolving invisibly into the cup. The result drinks like an indulgence and audits like a supplement.

Ways into the tin

• The classic mug — one 10.5 g serving whisked into 200 ml of hot water or, better, warm milk of any persuasion
• The iced version — blended with cold milk and ice; Malta’s nine-month summer approves
• The stealth options — stirred into porridge, overnight oats, smoothies or even cereal, where the chocolate does the diplomacy
• The mocha move — a serving whisked into coffee for the working-hours version

Label notes

Pure Collagen (bovine collagen) with the Cacao Magic blend — raw cacao*, cocoa*, coconut milk powder*, vanilla, sea salt (*organic). No added sugar hiding anywhere; the sweetness impression is cacao, coconut and vanilla earning their keep. Bovine collagen means not vegetarian — the vegan chocolate ritual lives over at SunWarrior’s Chocolate Fudge peptides.

Why the disguise works

Every abandoned supplement died the same death: it felt like a chore. Cacao Magic’s entire design bet is that nobody abandons hot chocolate. Attach the collagen habit to the evening wind-down mug — or the 4pm slump cup — and consistency stops being a discipline problem, which, for a structural protein judged over weeks and months, is the entire game. Currently sitting in Clearance, so the experiment costs less than the theory suggests it should.

Frequently asked questions

How chocolatey, honestly? Dark-leaning and genuine — raw cacao plus cocoa, not “chocolate flavouring”; sweeten your own cup if your tooth demands it.

Caffeine? Only cacao’s natural trace — evening-safe for all but the most sensitive.

Kids’ cups? As a food it suits family cocoa duty; portion sensibly and enjoy the smugness.

Cacao vs cocoa, since the label lists both

The blend deliberately doubles up: raw cacao — minimally processed, fruitier, sharper — layered over classic cocoa’s familiar roasted depth. Chocolatiers use the same trick to get complexity a single powder can’t deliver, and it’s why the cup tastes layered rather than flat. Both here are organic; neither arrives with sugar attached. That two-powder detail, plus the sea salt, is the difference between a formulator who drinks the product and one who outsources the recipe — small tells, but they’re why the tin converts hot-chocolate sceptics who assumed “functional” meant “worse”.

What’s the best milk for it? Oat froths sweetest, coconut doubles down on the tropical notes, dairy plays it classic — the blend flatters all three.

The clearance-corner honesty

This tin currently sits in our Clearance section, which deserves plain explanation rather than mystery: ranges rotate, and stock being cleared is stock priced to move — not stock gone wrong. Check the best-before on arrival as you would with any food, use it within its window (a nightly-mug habit empties 264 g well inside a month anyway), and enjoy paying less for the same recipe. Clearance is, frankly, the cheapest way to discover whether the hot-chocolate-that-works becomes part of your evening furniture.

Delivery in Malta & Gozo

€6 delivery, free over €40 across Malta and Gozo, or collection from St Paul’s Bay.