To help you get the best out of your ethical treats, we took to the streets to blind taste-test a range of the Fairtrade chocolate bars available at stores near you
Britain is a nation that loves its chocolate and we're warming to brands that offer a better deal to cocoa producers. Between 1998 and 2006 sales of Fairtrade chocolate grew from £1 million to £29.7 million and the market shows no signs of slowing down.
With so many new Fairtrade chocolates on the market we got a panel of joe-public chocolate lovers to give us their verdict and found out which bars had them reaching for their walllets and which ones had them reaching for the bin.
| Chocolate |
Comments |
Score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cocoa Loco white chocolate buttons | "Milky but sweet" | "Slightly sickly taste- very sickly actually if you have more than one mouthful" | "Not the one" | "Yuk" | Average score 2/10 |
| Divine white chocolate bar | "Cloying" | "Nice and creamy" | "S'alright" | "Simple but ok" | 5/10 |
| Co-operative crispy white chocolate bar | "Sweet but offset by texture" | "Creamy, nice crunch, nice subtle taste" | "I like rice krispies" | "Nice but not delicious" | 6/10 |
| Chocolate | Comments | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cocoa Loco dark chocolate buttons | "Bland" | "Trying to be fancy but actually a bit rank" | "Bitter - don't like" | "Bitter - good if you like that sort of thing I suppose" | 4/10 |
| Co-operative Fairtrade dark chocolate dark 85% | "Yuk" | "Greasy not good" | "Why?!?" | "Tastes like petrol" | 5/10 |
| Divine 70% | "Budget" | "Fine but unexciting" | "Nice. The best one" | "Bitter and tasty grown up chocolate" | 7/10 |
| Waitrose Swiss dark organic | "Delicious and rich" | "Good shizzle" | "Perfect dark chocolate" | "Ok but not amazing" | 8/10 |
| Green & Black Maya Gold | "Lovely, subtle hints of orange and spices" | "Gingery nice" | "Like chocolate orange but better" | "Fancy pants chocolate" | 9/10 |
| Chocolate | Comments | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrison's milk chocolate bar | "No flavour, waxy" | "Weird, is there plastic in here?" (Ed. - There's no plastic in the chocolate either) | "No discernable flavour, not bitter or sweet just nasty" | "Quite waxy but pleasing lingering taste" | 3/10 |
| Divine hazelnut milk chocolate bar | "Just tastes like nuts not chocolate" | "Not chocolaty enough" | "Is that nuts in there or little bits of wood?" (Ed. - There's no wood in any of the chocolate) | "Eurgh. Burnt bits" | 4/10 |
| Waitrose organic milk chocolate bar with hazelnuts | "Creamy but lacks a little chocolate glamour" | "Lots nuts overwhelm the chocolate" | "Too much nuts" | "The nuts make it a bit bitty in the mouth" | 4/10 |
| Divine coffee milk chocolate bar | "Good coffee action" | "Yeuch" | "Ok, even though I don’t really like coffee" | "Strong coffee flavour that you can't get rid of" | 6/10 |
| Waitrose Swiss milk chocolate bar | "Intensely smoky aftertaste" | "Too sickly and milky" | "I'd prefer more cocoa" | "Nice initial taste, strange aftertaste like cardboard " | 6/10 |
| Marks & Spencer milk chocolate bar with roasted almonds | "Nice" | "I like this one" | "Not too bitter and nice aftertaste" | "A darker, more powerful cocoa butter flavour with great nut proportions" | 7/10 |
| Marks & Spencer milk chocolate bar | "A bit cloying" | "Rich cocoa flavour and leaves a layer of chocolate in your mouth" | "Nice but a bit generic" | "Bitter aftertaste with an acid tongue, slightly grainy" | 7/10 |
| Divine milk chocolate bar | "Clean uncomplicated" | "Bland" | "Dull" | "Smooth and a bit praliney. Quite sweet though" | 7/10 |
| Co-operative milk chocolate bar | "Burnt woody, cocoa flavour - That's good though" | "Tastes real and earthy" | "Not a fan. It tastes like all the others - sweet and plasticy" | "Classic taste" | 8/10 |
| Divine orange milk chocolate bar | "It's not Terry's it mine!" | "Bitter sharp and less waxy than Terry's" | "Nice and orangey" | "Gorgeous - More, more, more" | 9/10 |
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