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- 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 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…. More >>
Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Bar, 70% Cocoa, 3.5-Ounce Bars
January 17, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I love dark chocolate. I don’t even bother with milk chocolate much since I turned 40, cause dark is where it’s at!
I love Valrhona, and I’ve also bought other high end chocolates over the past decade over at my gourmet shop or Fresh Market. I even love those chocolate truffles that are the store brand at Whole Foods (365 brand). But I’ve been moving into organic foods (and preferably local when possible) over the last year plus. One of the things I decided to do was try to replace my fave chocolate snacks with equivalent ORGANIC ones, including chocolate cookies.
Well, I tried this high cocoa content of Green and Black’s and their Mint Chocolate bar. I threw out both before I finished them. Neither did it for me.
I really find them to be highly bitter. Not bitter as in the normal bitterness that a high cocoa content has. A really unpleasant bitterness, like coffee that’s sat too long in the carafe.
I’ve tried a couple other organic chocolates I picked at random at Whole Foods and have yet to find one that makes me go, “yes, this is it!” Green and Black’s 70% is soooo not it.
So, FWIW, that has been my experience with G&B, which as you can see differs from the previous commenters who love it. YMMW.
Back to Valrhona.
Mir
Rating: 2 / 5
January 18, 2010 at 1:49 am
I agree with the other posters that this is one of the best, if not THE best, organic chocolate on the market. intense and rich flavor, it easily melts in your mouth and there is little guilt because of the benefits of organic and dark chocolate. I like to savor each bite for its sweetness and richness and I hope you try it!
Rating: 5 / 5
January 18, 2010 at 2:26 am
Not too long ago, my wife picked up a bar of Green & Black’s Milk Chocolate. To make a long story short, It was the best milk chocolate either of us had ever tasted. I’ve always preferred dark chocolate to milk chocolate, but the Green & Black’s milk chocolate came very close to being a dark chocolate, in my opinion.
Well, the next time we returned to the store to pick up another bar we noticed they also had Green & Black’s Organic Dark Chocolate (70 % cocoa, almost twice that of the milk chocolate bar). My mouth watered at the thought.
Mmmmmm. Yum! This stuff is incredible! It’s not sweet, at all. But it’s not really bitter either. It’s just so (how can I say it?) chocolatey! Sorry, but I’m at a loss for words. Let’s just say, it’s the best dark chocolate I’ve ever tasted. It’s rather hard and the bar snaps when you bite into it, but when you chew it just floods your mouth with a deep, dark chocolate flavor. You have to be something of a dark-chocolate fan to enjoy this. My wife says it’s good, for example, but she still prefers the milk chocolate. If you’re a dark chocolate lover, give this a try! Five Stars!
Gary Peterson
Rating: 5 / 5
January 18, 2010 at 3:52 am
Green and Black’s chocolate has always been great – when I moved from the UK to the US I was very relieved to find it in my local Whole Foods – saved me carrying in pounds of it every time I flew back from the UK! Green and Blacks chocolate is smooth and full of flavor; luckily, Cadbury’s, who bought them a couple of years ago, did not mess with the G&B formula, and let them produce their chocolate as they always had.
Now if Hersheys buy Cadbury’s, it may be a different story – Hershey’s have ruined any small artisanal chocolate they acquired – it always becomes like Hershey’s so-called ‘chocolate’ – a sickly-sweet, fatty, gross confection that does not deserve the name of chocolate. (It’s amusing to me that Amazon offers a deal if you add a Hershey’s dark chocolate bar to your basket with the G&B dark bar – NO self-respecting lover of G&B or any real chocolate would EVER go near Hershey’s again if they have even tried it once).
Anyway – buy this chocolate if you love real food, real taste and real chocolate. If you are a Cadbury’s shareholder and chocolate-lover, don’t let Hershey’s get their sickly-sweet paws on Green and Blacks!
Rating: 5 / 5
January 18, 2010 at 3:52 am
This is the best Dark Chocolate. It is smooth and melts in your mouth. Dark and delicous!!
Rating: 5 / 5