| | |  | Chocolate | Home » » » Green & Black's Organic Chocolate Bar, Dark 70% Cocoa, 3.5-Ounce Bars (Pack of 10) | | | | | | | Description: | | 70% Cocoa content - A combination of cocoa liquor and cocoa butter. The latter is there to coat each individual cocoa and sugar particle, allowing the chocolate to melt beautifully and cleanly in the mouth, revealing intense, bittersweet chocolate aromas. We select only the finest organic ingredients and take extra time and care to bring out the intense flavor that has become our trademark. Suitable for vegetarians & vegans. Made on a peanut free site. USDA organic. Green & Black's is certified organic by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). Made in Italy. | | | Features: | |
• Pack of 10, 3.5-ounce bars (total of 35 ounces)
• Combination of cocoa liquor and cocoa butter
• Suitable for vegetarians & vegans
• USDA organic
• Made on a peanut free site
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 2.2 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 30 reviews |
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16 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Avoid Online OrdersDec 19, 2009
By R. Shaffer
Be careful what supplier you select because returns aren't allowed. I had ordered this chocolate several times via Amazon. From Amazon directly, the G&B bars (made in Canada) arrived promptly. Then in late 2009 my first (and last) order, fulfilled Nutricity, arrived a month after the order had been placed, and then only after an inquiry to the seller. The bars were dry, stale and hard, the color of cocoa powder rather than chocolate bars. Although the bars still had 10 months to go before expiration of the sell-by date on the wrappers, they were a disgrace to the good name of G&B. It may be that they had been stored improperly, or that the single paper wrapper used in the Italian plant (the Canadian maker uses an inner foil wrap) allowed too much air to get to the bars. I ground them for hot chocolate, but they were unsuitable for eating directly and very similar in quality to the bars one sometimes finds at mass-market outlets that resell overstock from other retailers. Two years later I tried again, but had the same experience. The order was fulfilled by a different Amazon supplier, not Amazon itself. Again, the bars were stale and appeared to have been improperly stored (although they did arrive promptly.) In the future I will use a supplier with which Kraft (owner of Cadbury, owner of G&B) seems to have better quality control --- my local grocer.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Nutricity gives G&B a bad nameNov 07, 2011
By D. M. Gayner
"classical singer"
I ordered this chocolate from Nutricity. Although I have no problems with the speed of the delivery, or the way the items were packaged, somewhere along the line, Nutricity did not store them well. DO NOT ORDER FROM NUTRICITY. The chocolate is dried out and discolored. It crumbles in your mouth and has a bitter, astringent taste. In comparison, I just picked up a bar at Wegmans. The color of the chocolate is darker and more consistent than the bars from Nutricity. The bar from Wegmans melts in your mouth and has complex undertones that I can't find words to describe yet. If I hadn't tried the comparison, I would have said that Green & Black's chocolate was pretty poor. However, the bar from Wegman's is a completely different chocolate. So, do not order from Nutricity, but do try Green & Blacks. I rate the chocolate from Wegmans a 5.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 No GMO ingredients in G&B barsApr 04, 2011
By jitterbug
It's interesting to read that some reviewers are saying the bars contain GMO ingredients.
The information is erroneous. Green & Black's does not use GMO soy lecithin or any other GMO ingredient.
This is taken directly from their website:
Are your products GM-free?
Yes - as all of our products are certified by the Soil Association, this ensures no genetically modified (GM) ingredients are used in their production.
Just FYI, the Soil Association is the UK equivalent of the NOP here in the US, the organic certification body.
They're very strict.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Better to purchase locallyNov 01, 2011
By Ed
Though the date on the package expires a year out, the candy is hard, bloomed with pale edges, and lacking the nuances I enjoy about this particular brand. I saved about forty cents per bar buying a ten pack, but it's not worth it. I'll buy them locally, and enjoy the freshness.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Sumptuously delicious dark chocolateAug 15, 2011
By Kate McMurry
"Young Adult Author"
Green & Black's is my new favorite dark chocolate--by a mile. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to eat dark chocolate either for the health benefits it provides or for its delicately bittersweet flavor. This particular brand of dark chocolate tastes amazing.
The company G&B is from Canada and is famous for organic, fair-trade, 70% dark chocolate. This particular bar has had the same recipe since 1998. It was previously labeled "vegan," but per the G&B website, the label for this bar no longer says vegan and indicates that milk is an ingredient because both their "milk chocolate and dark chocolate bars are made using the same production line...and a recent audit revealed that traces of milk residues can still be found on manufacturing equipment despite intensive cleaning." The ingredients listed on the package are: organic bittersweet chocolate (organic chocolate), organic raw cane sugar; organic cocoa butter; soy lecithin (emulsifier), organic vanilla extract; organic whole milk powder. There is a warning that because this is manufactured in a facility that uses nuts and peanuts, those with allergies to them should not eat this product.
The question some may ask who love sweet, milk chocolate is, why pay more money (often quite a bit more) for dark chocolate such as this that doesn't taste sweet? The main reason for most people in the over-50 crowd is the health benefits to be gained from consuming dark chocolate. The more chocolate contained in a chocolate bar, the more of the good stuff--cacao--that you are getting. In short, the more "bang" for your "buck."
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." (That is equivalent to about 1.5 of the tiny squares of this chocolate.) 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 70% cocoa, fits well within the parameters of that study.
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 "extra bittersweet." This product lies at the top of this range.
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.
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