| | |  | Chocolate | Home » » » » Ghirardelli Chocolate Intense Dark Bar, Twilight Delight 72% Cacao, 3.5-Ounce Bars (Pack of 6) | | | | | | | Description: | | Reward yourself with our rich, slow-melting dark chocolate, crafted fro the highest quality ingredients. Savor a moment that will carry you through your day. | | | Features: | |
• Ghirardelli Intense Dark chocolates deliver luxuriously deep and velvety chocolate blended with sophisticated ingredients
• These bars are delicately thin, allowing the chocolate to melt slowly in your mouth?a truly intense chocolate experience
• We hand-select the world's finest cocoa beans to create our proprietary bean blend and roast them to perfection then we slow-blend in the purest ingredients, to achieve our award-winning distinctively intense chocolate
• Pack of 6 - 3.5 ounce bars
• 100% All-Natural; Made in the USA
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 3.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Delicious, nutritious dark chocolateApr 25, 2011
By Kate McMurry
"Young Adult Author"
Ghirardelli certainly lives up to its reputation for delicious, gourmet chocolate with this bar. For those who are used to semisweet or sweet chocolate, the flavor of this bar may seem surprisingly bitter and take some getting used to. But for those who are accustomed to dark chocolate, the flavor is sublime. The texture is also excellent, and the packaging lovely. In short, this bar is a dark-chocolate lover's dream.
The question some may ask who love sweet, milk chocolate is, why pay more money (often quite a bit more) for dark chocolate that doesn't taste particularly sweet? The main reason for most people in the over-50 crowd is the health benefits to be gained from consuming dark chocolate.
Over the last four years there have been dozens of scientific studies analyzing and confirming substantial health benefits from a small amount of dark chocolate consumed daily. The latest findings from a Harvard study released in early 2011 indicate that as little as 6 gm. of dark chocolate (about 30 calories) is a sufficient daily "dose." The original German studies in 2007 used Ritter Sport chocolate, but I haven't so far been able to discover which kind of Ritter's dark chocolate was used by the researchers. However, since Ritter's only makes two types, 50% cacao and 71% cacao, this product, at 72% cacao, fits well within the parameters of that study. An equivalent amount of this chocolate compared to that in the study would be one-half of one of its individual squares/sections. (Note: the package lists a "serving" as "three sections" which is 38 gms. This is six times the amount needed to improve your health.)
The health benefits of dark chocolate are due to the flavonoids contained in cocoa. Flavonoids act as antioxidants in the body, which both prevent and reduce inflammation. Over many years of medical research, inflammation has been found to contribute to or directly cause a host of diseases, including high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer, as well as autoimmune diseases like arthritis.
Flavonoids are found in the pigments of fruits and vegetables which give them their color. The darker and deeper the color of a fruit or vegetable, the greater the amount of flavonoids it contains. Cocoa is derived from the dark-brown cacao bean, which is the fruit of the tropical tree, theobroma cacao. In any chocolate product, such as this one, the higher the percentage of cocoa/cacao, the more flavonoids the chocolate contains.
Dark chocolate such as this product is better for your health than milk chocolate because it contains more antioxidants, which are good for you, and less sugar, which is not good for you--especially if you have diabetes or are struggling with your weight.
The FDA defines categories of chocolate based on how much cocoa/cacao is in a given product:
1. Unsweetened chocolate with no additives is 100% cocoa. Most all brands of unsweetened baker's chocolate fall into this category. Their ingredient list will state simply, "chocolate."
2. Bittersweet chocolate contains 35-99% cocoa (35% is the minimum), and it must contain less than 12% milk solids. There is a large range of products in this category, and the product names reflect the amount of chocolate they contain. Unsweetened chocolate is very bitter, and the more cocoa in a product, the less room for sugar, and the more bitter it will be. In order to avoid frightening off customers who are used to sweet chocolate, marketers often substitute the words "dark," "extra dark" or "intense" for "bitter" if that word is not paired with "sweet," for example as "bittersweet" or "semisweet" or "extra bittersweet."
3. Sweet chocolate contains 15-34% cocoa (15% is the minimum), and it must contain less than 12% milk solids. It is sometimes also marketed as "dark chocolate," even though it has a much lower percentage of cocoa solids than bittersweet, which can cause consumers, in such cases, to purchase a product with less cocoa in it than they realized they were getting. Everything else besides the cocoa and milk solids is essentially sugar.
4. Milk chocolate is only required to have a minimum of 10% cocoa, a minimum of 12% milk solids and 3.39% milk fat. The rest is sugar and milk.
Per the package, the ingredients of this "all natural," dark-chocolate bar are: unsweetened chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla, and soy lecithin.
People who are allergic to nuts (including peanuts and tree nuts), soy, and milk should not eat this product since it is manufactured with the same equipment that processes those things and traces could be in this chocolate.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Ghirardelli Chocolate Intense Dark Twilight Delight 72%Jul 12, 2010
By Judy Schinske
"Veronica"
I love love love dark chocolate, it has to be my favorite and I am always looking for new chocolate to try, dark chocolate that is. I loved the name of this bar which is what attracted it to me in the first place. For dark chocolate it is ok, but it is not my go to dark chocolate bar. It has a strange flavor to it, it made me kind of sick after eating it. Its not that it was too rich but it just had a strage flavor to it. If you want a good dark chocolate bar I would stick with lindt chocolate or chocolove, both great dark chocolates.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 More than adequate substituteNov 16, 2011
By M. A. Cundari
"The One & Only"
I don't do a lot of baking, but when a recipe of mine calls for chocolate, I would always use Valrhona. No exceptions. I discovered it by accident at a local Williams-Sonoma (10-11 years ago) and to this day it is without a doubt the most beautiful bar of chocolate I have ever experienced (creepy I know, LOL). A few years ago (much to my dismay) Williams-Sonoma stopped selling all Valrhona products. In the future I could easily purchase online, but at that point I needed something immediately. I remember trying Lindt's 70% dark bar and thought that it was much too bitter. I've never been a a huge fan of Godiva (too expensive anyway), so as a last resort I trekked on over to my local Shoprite. I was surprised at their selection. I was also surprised to see what seemed to be a premium line from Ghirardelli. Now I've always felt that Ghirardelli's chocolate was on par with say Hershey, except just a bit more expensive. So if all I want is a simple bar of chocolate to chomp down on, why spend the extra dough on Ghirardelli when I can just buy Hershey? But I had a good feeling about this particular 72% bar they called "Twilight Delight". At $2.50 a pop for a 3.5oz bar it certainly wasn't going to break the bank (I now see it on sale quite often at $1.99). As soon as I got home I had to taste it. I was floored. So much better than the Lindt and MUCH less expensive than any bar of Godiva. Still not as good as Valrhona, but a very, VERY worthy substitute. So much so that as long as I can find this at my local Shoprite, I will never go out of my way to purchase Valrhona online again. And I LOOOOOOOOVE Valrhona. But the cost factor simply just not justify spending that much for chocolate. Especially when this premium bar of Ghirardelli is so very delicious!
Great!Apr 28, 2012
By Kimberly L. Ellis
"bathory"
My favorite standard dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is good for you, the darker the better. 72% is the darkest most people can stand. I love the squares which help me control my portions. 4 squares is the serving size SO if you just eat one a day it's about 60 calories! Ghirardelli is middle of the road for premium chocolates which means they're really good.
Intense... but still enjoyable.Apr 26, 2012
By Jeff A. Simon
"Sci-Fi Outlander"
I have tried chocolates with even more cacao but found them to be unenjoyable. Because everyone's tastebuds and body chemistry are different; no one thing can taste exactly the same the same to any two people. But for me 72% cacao is the upper limit where the chocolate is still sweet enough to taste good even through the aftertaste.. Of the Ghiardelli bars, Twilight Delight is MY favorite.
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