Al Nassma Chocolate facts for kids

Al Nassma Chocolate LLC is a special company that makes and sells chocolates using camel milk. It started in Dubai in 2008. You can find their unique chocolates in Dubai, parts of Europe, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.

The Story of Al Nassma Chocolate

Al Nassma Chocolate was the very first company in the United Arab Emirates to make chocolate from camel milk. They officially started on October 22, 2008. It took them nearly four years to create and launch their special brand.

Delicious Camel Milk Chocolates

Al Nassma makes many yummy treats. They have 70-gram camel milk chocolate bars in different flavors. These include classic whole milk, dark chocolate (70% cocoa), and "Arabia" with special spices like cardamom and cinnamon.

Other flavors are macadamia orange and dates. They also make fun camel-shaped chocolates. The "Camel Caravan" chocolates have a creamy macadamia nut and honey filling. You can also find hollow camel figures and different kinds of pralines.

Camel milk is a traditional food in many Arab countries.

How the Chocolates Look

The 70-gram chocolate bars are wrapped in shiny gold foil. The pralines come in cool boxes that look like camel hide. Special wooden boxes from Germany hold the Camel Caravan chocolates. The camel figures are wrapped in gold and put into gift boxes.

Making the Chocolate

Al Nassma makes its own chocolates right from cocoa beans. In 2006, they built a special factory that follows Halal rules. This means the food is prepared according to Islamic law.

Where the Milk Comes From

The camel milk for the chocolates comes from the Camelicious Farm in Umm Nahad. This farm belongs to a company called Emirates Industry for Camel Milk & Products (EICMP). The farm is home to over 3,500 camels!

The camels are milked twice every day. They produce about 5,000 liters of fresh camel milk. This milk is then pasteurised at a special dairy plant. Pasteurization is a process that heats milk to kill harmful germs.

Some of the milk is bottled and sold as "Camelicious" milk. The rest of the milk is freeze-dried. This means the water is removed, making it a powder. This powder is then flown to a factory in Austria. There, it is turned into the main chocolate mass used to make the chocolates.

What's Inside the Chocolate

About 150 milliliters of fresh camel milk are used in one bar of whole milk chocolate. All the ingredients are natural. These include camel milk, sugar, cocoa beans, cocoa butter, vanilla, honey, and Arabian spices. They also use pistachios, dates, macadamia nuts, and orange zest. There are no artificial colors or extra additives.

Most of the chocolate molding and packaging happens at Al Nassma's main office in Dubai, UAE.

Where to Find Al Nassma Chocolates

Since 2008, Al Nassma has sold its camel milk chocolate in special camel-shaped kiosks. There is also an Al Nassma shop at the Camelicious camel farm in the desert.

You can find sales kiosks at many famous places in Dubai. These include The Dubai Mall, 'At the Top' of the Burj Khalifa, the Burj Al Arab, and Souk Madinat Jumeirah. They are also sold in many Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts, like Bab Al Shams Hotel, Emirates Towers Hotel, Atlantis, The Palm, Kempinski, Grand Hyatt, and Anantara Hotels & Resorts.

You can also buy them at duty-free shops in the Persian Gulf region. This includes Dubai Duty Free and Qatar Duty Free.

International Sales

In 2009, Al Nassma started sending its chocolates to other countries using UPS. They export to Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the US, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, and the UK.

Their products are sold in stores, hotels, resorts, and duty-free shops in many countries. Since 2013, you can find them at Julius Meinl am Graben in Vienna and Prague. Since early 2014, they are also sold at Selfridges in London and KaDeWe in Berlin.

In June 2014, Al Nassma teamed up with Gebr. Heinemann. This allowed them to sell their chocolates in duty-free shops at Vienna and Istanbul airports. They also started selling on MSC Cruises ships.