Saturday, September 2, 2017

Without Pretense, Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao Chocolate Bars Thrill Chocolate Lovers!


The Good: Great dark chocolate flavor, Wonderful ingredients, Good corporate ethics
The Bad: Nothing!
The Basics: Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars are perfect!


Every now and then, I have a concern that I am unable to enjoy the simple things in life and that my high standards prevent me from truly accepting simple things for what they are. Sometimes, simple things completely live up to all they promise to be. This concern came up as I sat down to review the Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars. I was concerned that I would be too harsh on such a simple candy bar, but the truth is, even with the higher initial cost of the Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars, there were nothing wrong and everything right with them!

The Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars are perfect for anyone who loves dark chocolate!

Basics

Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars are one and three-eights inch by one and five-eighths inch rectangles of chocolate that are about three-sixteenths of an inch thick and connected side by side and in rows, to form a bar of ten segments. Each bar comes unified in a foil wrapper. The foil-wrapped chocolate bar is sealed in a cardboard package.

Each chocolate bar is sold in a way that it is easy to segment and control portions. In this form, the 3.17 oz. bar, the chocolate bar represents two and a half servings. Each bar appears solid and smooth on the bottom and is stamped with the Green & Black's logo.

Ease Of Preparation

These are candy, so preparing them is as simple as opening the cardboard and then opening the foil wrapper from around the actual chocolate. There is no trick to eating Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars.

Taste

The Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao bars are quite aromatic. The Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao bars smell delightfully of dark chocolate and the scent is clear and inviting.

In the mouth, the Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao bars are rich and chocolatey. The Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars have a flavorful and slightly dry flavor. The impressive aspect of the Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao bars is that they are not at all bitter, but not so sweet that they lose any of their dark chocolate, cacao flavor!

The Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bar have virtually no aftertaste to them, which is a surprise given how impressive the rich chocolate flavor of the bars actually are.

Nutrition

These are candy, so health aspects are seldom one's top concern. That said, the Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars are made of pretty great ingredients, justifying their expense. The sole ingredient is bittersweet chocolate. There is nothing unpronounceable in these candy bars.

A serving from the Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars is considered four rectangles from the overall bar, which is a somewhat silly serving size for a bar that is segmented into ten pieces (as that means one whole bar is two and a half servings). From four squares, one takes in 210 calories, including 160 calories of fat. There is no sodium and 2 grams protein in each serving. There is a decent amount Iron (25% RDA) in each bar, but no significant quantities of any other major nutrients. The biggest nutritional detraction in the Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao are the 19 grams of fat per serving and the 55% RDA of saturated fat that comes from the 11 grams of saturated fat!

These are not Vegan-compliant, nor are they recommended for anyone with a nut allergy as they are manufactured on equipment that processes tree nuts and milk. They are not specifically marked as kosher (I'm not sure why), but Green & Black's uses sustainable cocoa farming for their cocoa, which is nice!

Storage/Clean-up

The bars of these Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars remain fresh for quite some time. The bars we picked up two months ago had an expiration date of April 2, 2018, though they will certainly not last that long as I will have consumed mine well before then! One assumes that if they are kept in a cool, dry environment they will not melt or go bad. It is hard to imagine just what it would take for these to go bad outside melting and refreezing.

As for cleanup, just throw the packaging away when you're done! These chocolate bars are made such that there is no real cleanup needed, unless one is eating them in a hot environment. Under that circumstance, it is likely one would need to wash their hands, though these bars do not melt as easily as cheap or milk chocolates. When this chocolate melts into most fabrics, it will stain.

Overall

Green & Black's Pure Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao chocolate bars are rich and flavorful without betraying the dark chocolate nature of the bars.

For Green & Black's chocolate reviews, please check out:
Pure Dark Chocolate Roasted Almond Bar
Pure Dark Chocolate Raspberry & Hazelnut Chocolate Bars
Pure Dark Chocolate Sea Salt chocolate bars

10/10

For other chocolate reviews, please visit my Chocolate Review Index Page for an organized listing!

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