ESWATINI CHILLI SAUCES IN DEMAND ACROSS THE WORLD

MBABANE - Black Mamba Chilli products are said to be making waves across the globe.

The products of the business which was founded by Joe and Claudia Castellanos, according to Business Insider, are said to be bringing the heat around the world with their delightfully venomous Habanero, Cayenne Pepper, Jalapeno, and Pineapple chilli sauces. “From South Africa to the United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic, Norway, Taiwan, and the United States the sauces are striking fear into the tastebuds of chilli fans across the world. “Key to their ‘chilli world domination’ is that they source their ingredients from 60 local farmers that work in partnership with NGO Guba Swaziland, which helps them to grow chillies and other foods sustainably from a lush valley just outside of Malkerns,” reads the report in part.

Local

The ingredients are grown sustainably by local farmers. “Because the farms work on very small plots, for them it doesn’t make sense to grow crops that are cheap to grow, they need high-value products. Funnily enough chillies are perfect for it. The farmers weren’t growing it but as it turned out chillies grow beautifully well in the valley,” Claudia was quoted saying.
The small-scale local farmers, according to the report, are mostly women and sell the food at organic market to support their families. By 2023 there will be more, in part thanks to a E9.2 million fund drive run by US venture capital (VC) fund Enygma Ventures which was completed in October this year.  “It’s a symbiosis between the sauces itself in terms of the fiery Latino influence from myself and then the African hot soul coming from my husband’s side. (Joe) fits exactly into the definition of a chilli head; he likes flavours but wants to make it as hot as he can. He was the one that came up with the original Black Mamba recipe.”  

Proving

One of the most bizarre flavours in the range is the tropically-inspired pineapple chilli sauce, which is proving to be a hot commodity in Taiwan and, of all places, Norway. “The pineapple came from wanting to make a sweet chilli sauce. All the (sweet chilli sauces) on the market we knew of are from Asia. There wasn’t really an African sweet chilli sauce, so we worked on the concept,” Claudia added.

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