Everyone needs to start checking chocolate products before purchasing
โThis is the first time in human history corporations are selling you chocolate that can no longer legally be called chocolate.โ
โTo classify a product as chocolate, the UK requires at least 20-25% cocoa (only 10% in America). So many popular brands, including a slew of Nestle products, have quietly changed their labels to chocolate flavor coating.
Cacao prices have shot up 250% over the past 3 years, so Big Food has reformulated to more vegetable oils, sugars, and other fillers. Major brands like Hershey, Mondelez, and Barry Callebaut are also cutting back for less cocoa usage.
With input prices rising, there seems to be Either corporations continue to swap real ingredients for fillers to keep prices the same or content is kept similar but the price gets pushed to the consumer.
Watch out for this over the holidays and expect to pay a little more for properly sourced and formulated products.โ