Ultimately, the couple would take their chocolate-making pastime to the subsequent stage by investing greater than $6,000 in tools, acquiring permits to construct a business kitchen of their Camas dwelling, getting their cottage enterprise license and, in 2024, launching their very own low-carb, sugar-free, diabetic-friendly chocolate firm, DownLow Chocolate.
The Huths say their imaginative and prescient is to be “the leading provider of delicious, low-carb, craft chocolate” and they’re effectively on their means.
It has been lower than a 12 months since they launched DownLow Chocolate and the Huths’ artisan chocolate-making enterprise is already rising. The sugar-free DownLow Chocolate bars are available a variety of darkish, milk and white candies. They function Prohibition Period themes and designs created by Jeff’s son, Asher, a 3D animation scholar at DePaul College in Chicago. The candies are actually offered nationwide by way of the DownLow Chocolate web site and can be found in a number of regional retailers and wellness clinics, together with Candy Intention Reward Boutique and Peace Your self Collectively in downtown Camas and A Pure Path to Well being naturopathic clinic and The Soul Ascension Studio in Vancouver.
“I love the creamy texture and flavor and potency of the chocolate,” Vancouver naturopathic physician Michael Conway, head of A Pure Path to Well being clinic, mentioned in a assessment of DownLow Chocolate. He mentioned the corporate’s Getaway Bar, a sugar-free, vegan, 60 p.c darkish chocolate bar comprised of natural, fair-trade Dominican Republic cacao beans, is “probably the best tasting dark chocolate” he’s ever had.