Product description
Pequena is a nutritious and healthy snack with a delicate nutty flavour. It is made with 100% organic ingredients: a delicious combination of fragrant sesame seeds from Nicaragua and cane sugar from Paraguay.
This crunchy and appetizing bar is of high nutritional value. It contains fibres, B-group vitamins, magnesium, silicon, calcium and iron.
Properties
Sesame is a tropical tree with fruits containing small seeds, rich in oils, proteins and minerals. The lecithin contained in the seeds is reported to have beneficial effects on the endocrine system and on brain function.
The cane sugar from Paraguay is a pure unrefined sugar containing all original nutritive properties. It is a rich source of minerals, especially iron.
Percentage of fair trade ingredients: 74%
Producers
ATC - Nicaragua: Associacion de Trabajadores del Campo (ATC) is a Sandinista trade union of Nicaraguan farmers engaged in sesame production. Sesame is grown on the land (former banana plantations) which was cleared to make way for sesame cultivation. More than 100 people work in the project (mostly retired and unemployed people) and have the chance to earn decent wages and improve their living conditions. ATC is promoting women’s employment through special awareness raising sessions on gender issues and literacy classes. All interventions are implemented by a group of women trained by ATC.
Otisa Sugar Mill - Paraguay: Otisa is a private company located in a particularly poor area, which is situated 70 km from Asuncion. Its main goal is to provide access to market to marginalised small farmers. It gathers 900 sugar cane growers that produce around 6.000 tons of organic cane sugar yearly. Two co-operatives and a committee of producers selected by the partner ATO’s receive a fair trade price surcharge for their products.
Chain traceability
Sesame seeds from Nicaragua and cane sugar from Paraguay are processed in Greece by Jannis, which is also in charge of final product packaging.