About: Vosges "Haut Chocolate" looks pretentious from the very onset. If it's not the retro art deco font or the carefully posed pictures of Katrina Markoff, the firm's founden, then surely the claims about "detoxification" and "general wellness" should make you squirm. News flash: detoxification is not a Thing. The claimed enhanced brain function should tell you that. Vosges proudly proclaims its renewable energy, recycled, women's and disadvantaged-enterprise business ownership labels. Perhaps the only chink in their armor is that "many" of their suppliers are organic.
These are all good things, but like hearing about your friend waking at 6am to swim laps, you can't help but feel annoyed at all their righteousness being shoved down your throat.
Fortunately, having the chocolate shoved down the throat isn't bad, even if you want to hate it.
Flavor: The green tea flavor in this bar is subtle. So it the green tea flavor in green tea. So that's okay. The cocoa nibs give the chocolate a kick and a satisfying crunch. The spirulina, which is an algea rich in protein, vitamins and minerals must be in low quantities. No one knows what spirulina tastes like, but with all that wholesome goodness, it much rival kale and other vile 'superfoods' as super vile.
That said, the bar is not bursting with chocolate flavor. It's semi-bursting.
Texture: Creamy on the hard size. The little bits of crunchy cocoa nibs remind one of rice krispies. But a half bar of this stuff gives you a kick.
My rating: 7.5, on the scale of 1-10, where 10 means 'mind shockingly good' and 1 means 'would not bother'. So a 2 would be the lowest value that's worth eating, though with little enthusiasm.
Would get again, but not at a top priority. Overall, I think I prefer a pure chocolate bar to this (particular) flavored version.
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