Have your chocolate and drink it: one Irish company's vision for cacao beans

Try cacao tea, and cacao as a healthy alternative to sweet Easter eggs 

Anna O'Sullivan and Lisa Kleiner from Nibbed

Easter doesn't have to be about consuming a surfeit of bland, sweet Easter eggs - there are other ways of getting your chocolate fix without compromising a healthy diet. Drinking it in the form of cacao tea or a cacao beverage ticks lots of great dietary boxes while still letting you enjoy the familiar flavour of really good chocolate.

Cacao, the name for the unprocessed beans, is the source of all this goodness and cacao tea is what started Lisa Kleiner on her bean-to-beverage journey. Together with her niece Anna O'Sullivan, she co-founded the Wicklow-based Nibbed last year, a company that calls itself "the home of cacao brews and treats".