151: Phi Kind Organics Sugar-Free Chocolate & Stone-Ground Nut Butter with Creator, Jonathan Pantalis

“Pie Kind” was created with the intention of creating the best tasting, purest chocolates and pastries. While the pastries and pie are long gone the love affair with chocolate has only grown stronger. It was the founders greatest pleasure to make people the best food ever with the purest ingredients he could find. It fed his soul. To see others experience joy through one of life’s greatest necessity’s, food. What he had not foreseen when this project was born was the pain that food can cause as well. Before the project could take off fully; perhaps one of the greatest acts of grace in disguise, the Jonathan Pantalis's long-standing battles with depression and fatigue took a dive for the worse; only to get news that his mother was going through challenges much more severe. Enough was enough. No love affair with food was worth the pain of losing one’s quality of life or precious time with loved ones. After exhausting the possibilities of conventional medicine, Jonathan dove deep into research knowing that matters had to be taken into his own hands. He would sometimes spend 8 or more hours a day, on little sleep studying nutrition, the great herbal medicine systems of the world, digging through information he agreed with and not, all sides had to be considered. It became clear that excess sugar (among other things) in our food was at the root of much of our modern health issues. The vision of Pie was no longer in line. One uncertain night, while driving to the store (probably for chocolate) the upload happened. Phi! The ratio of all growth in our universe! Over time the (chocolate) wheel was reinvented, Jonathan learned that the roasted coverture (preprocessed bulk chocolate) he was using, went through unnecessary processing. He no longer saw the need to roast chocolate if the chocolate was dried and fermented properly. When Jonathan had his first taste of raw chocolate after researching the numerous benefits of minimally processed chocolate the game was changed forever. He had to change everything. The sugar had to go, he had to make a chocolate just as delicious as before with non-glycemic sweeteners that were organic and actually found in nature. Going beyond sugar-free we had to design our chocolates with organic food based colors and add functional ingredients like coconut oil, inulin, turmeric, and MCT oil. Now that Jonathan has perfected his chocolate, he has expanded Phi Kind to stone-ground nut butter, truffles and more. Follow Phi Kind on Instagram @phikind Shop Phi Kind Chocolate and Stoneground Nut Butter Wish you had access to the caliber of products you hear about on The No Diet Podcast for a fraction of retail price? Then you need a Ritzfit Membership