Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Superfood 70% South American Origin Cacao Mandarin Orange Chocolate


                                     





About: This is a wee-thin bar. It's almost half of what you might expect to get in a 'regular' bar of chocolate. It tries to market itself as being healthy, so scrunch your face now in skepticism. Do I need probiotics and antioxidants added to my chocolate? Nah. But the fact that they chocolate tastes good compensates for the fruity marketing. The list of super foods they include as ingredients is almost comical - everything you might have ever heard being called a super food.  It leaps tall palates in a single bound. The non-sequitur silhouette of a large breasted woman doing yoga rounds off the hippy marketing.

The company makes various "super foods," including nibs, bark (well, they call it 'bark'), coconut water, etc. They have a handful of different chocolate flavorings.


Flavor: Nice. The orange flavor tastes real - there's orange juice and pulp in there. The chocolate isn't overwhelmingly flavorful, but it's good. Solid. They add various flavors into this bar, with some coffee and tea extracts, and hints of those flavors come though.

Texture: Slightly brittle, with a slightly gritty finish, maybe because of some orange in the chocolate.

My rating:  Just a 4.

Rating Value Meaning
1 Really bad chocolate. There's something just really really wrong here in almost every imaginable respect.
2 A bar with this rating has at least two drawbacks.
3 A bar where something is starting to get seriously wrong.... for example, really weak flavor with an otherwise acceptable texture.
4 This bar is below average, but just slightly. Mostly it's not worth eating again. Something isn't quite up to par, for example a poor texture but fine flavor.
5 This is an average good bar that's worth eating. There's nothing really wrong with it, but also nothing particularly spectacular. Or, perhaps it has a good characteristic that's evenly counter-weighted by something weak.
6 A solidly good bar with one characteristic that's above par, for example a great texture.
7 An solidly good chocolate that has two above par characteristics, but nothing mind-blowing. Good, above average flavor, but nothing to die for.
8 An excellent bar with no weaknesses and at least one characteristic that's super.
9 An awesome bar to die for with amazing texture and flavor.
10 You have been touched by God.


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