Al Nassma Chocolate facts for kids

Al Nassma Chocolate LLC is a special company from the United Arab Emirates 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.

History of Al Nassma Chocolate

Al Nassma Chocolate is the very first and only brand in the United Arab Emirates to make chocolate from camel milk. The company officially began on October 22, 2008. It took almost four years of hard work and planning to create and launch this special chocolate brand.

Delicious Camel Milk Products

Al Nassma makes many different kinds of camel milk chocolates. They have 70-gram chocolate bars that come in several yummy flavors. These include classic whole milk, a dark chocolate with 70% cocoa, and a special "Arabia" flavor with a mix of Arabian spices like cardamom and cinnamon. Other flavors feature macadamia nuts with orange, and dates.

They also create fun camel-shaped chocolates called "Camel Caravan," which have a creamy filling of macadamia nut and honey. You can find hollow camel figures and various kinds of pralines, which are small chocolates with fillings.

Camel milk has been a traditional part of food in Arab countries for a very long time.

The 70-gram chocolate bars are wrapped in shiny, double-printed gold foil. The pralines come in boxes that look like camel hide. For the "Camel Caravan" chocolates, they use beautiful wooden boxes made in Germany. The camel figures are wrapped in golden foil and packed in nice gift boxes.

How Al Nassma Chocolate is Made

Al Nassma makes its own chocolates right from cocoa beans. In 2006, the company built a special factory that is Halal-certified. This means their products are made according to Islamic rules.

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

The camels are milked twice every day, producing about 5,000 liters of fresh camel milk. This milk is then pasteurised at a dairy plant that meets high safety standards (ISO 22000 certified). Some of the milk is bottled and sold as "Camelicious" milk. The rest of the milk is freeze-dried and flown to a factory in Austria. There, it is turned into the chocolate mass that will become Al Nassma chocolate.

For one bar of whole milk chocolate, Al Nassma uses about 150 milliliters of fresh, pasteurized camel milk. All the ingredients they use are natural. This includes camel milk, sugar, cocoa beans, cocoa paste, cocoa butter, bourbon vanilla, honey, Arabian spices, pistachios, dates, macadamia nuts, and orange zest. They never use artificial colors or extra additives.

Most of the chocolate molding (shaping the chocolates) and packaging is done at the company's main office in Dubai, UAE.

Where to Find Al Nassma Chocolates

Since it started in 2008, Al Nassma has mostly sold its camel milk chocolate from special kiosks shaped like camels. There is also an Al Nassma shop at the Camelicious camel farm in the desert.

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

Al Nassma chocolates are also sold in duty-free shops in the Persian Gulf region, like Dubai Duty Free and Qatar Duty Free.

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

Today, you can buy their products in shops inside UAE shopping malls, hotels, and resorts. They are also available in duty free shops in several countries. Since 2013, they have been sold at Julius Meinl am Graben in Vienna and Prague. Since early 2014, you can find them at Selfridges in London and KaDeWe in Berlin.

In June 2014, Al Nassma teamed up with Gebr. Heinemann to open duty-free sales in Vienna Duty Free and Istanbul Duty Free. Their chocolates are also sold on cruise ships of MSC Cruises.