Food & Beverage Magazine has named The Power of SLOW an Editor's Top Pick in its September 2024 issue, under the banner Leaders of Sustainability. You can read the full Editor's Top Picks: Sustainability feature here.
The list around us is a mixed and interesting one: commercial dishwashers, compostable cups, recycled-glass tequila bottles, regeneratively raised chicken. Our entry is a can of coconut flower sap drink, made on our own farm in Rizal, Palawan. We are glad to be on the page, and a little humbled to be alongside companies that have been working on sustainability for a long time.
What is The Power of SLOW?
The Power of SLOW is a drink made from coconut flower sap, the sap tapped from the flower of the coconut palm. It has no added sugar. The magazine describes it as "a taste of tradition with modern health benefits," and describes its energy as low-glycemic.
There is more than one version. The range includes still and carbonated drinks, in more than one flavor. You can see the range at drinkpowerofslow.com.
The name is on purpose. Coconut sap has been tapped for generations in coconut-growing regions, and SLOW ties the drink to slow living and respect for what the land gives.
Why does it matter that the sap comes from our own farm?
A sustainability claim is only as good as the supply chain behind it, and we wanted ours to start in a place we can walk through. The feature notes that The Power of SLOW is made on Lionheart Farms' own farm, where organic regenerative agriculture is practiced. We harvest only coconut flower sap, and every product we make comes from that one raw material.
Sap is unforgiving. Once it is tapped, it has to be processed within hours or it spoils. That is why our laboratories and processing plants sit alongside the farm, and it is the reason a drink called SLOW is made against a very fast clock.
The other line in the feature that we care about is the one about people. The magazine points to the way the drink connects farmers and farming communities to global markets. That is the part of the work we most want to get right, and we know a magazine pick does not mean it is finished. We don't have it all figured out yet. We do know which direction we want to keep walking.
Read the feature and try SLOW
Thank you to the editors at Food & Beverage Magazine for the recognition, and to everyone on our farm and in our plant who handles the sap with that hours-long clock in mind.
To see the full list of sustainability picks, read the September 2024 Editor's Top Picks feature. To find The Power of SLOW, visit drinkpowerofslow.com, or write to us at hello@drinkpowerofslow.com.