Four squares of dark chocolate filled with almond butter, toasted coconut flakes and a golden turmeric spice mix, in a small gift box. Around 2 g of sugar per square, from dates. Vegan, organic, hand-made in France. 4 x 20 g.
CONTAINS ALMONDS AND COCONUT
The filling is almond butter, and almond is a named tree nut under EU allergen law — an ingredient here, not a trace. There is coconut in it too.
If you are giving this as a gift, the nuts are what you need to know first — ahead of the sugar figure, which is what these are usually sold on. The full declaration, including traces, is on the box.
A comparison you will not find here
These are often sold as "like a Bo*nty but better", with the asterisk doing the work of pretending not to name a trademarked product.
It is not a good look on a shop page, and it also sells the product short. A Bounty is milk chocolate around sweetened desiccated coconut. This is 75% dark chocolate around almond butter, toasted coconut and turmeric, sweetened with ground dates. They are not the same category of thing, and describing this one by reference to a mass-market bar makes it sound like an imitation of something it is not trying to be.
What is actually in the box
Toasted coconut flakes — toasted, which matters, because toasting drives Maillard browning and turns coconut from sweet and one-note into something nutty and complex. Almond butter for the body. Turmeric for warmth and a faint bitterness that stops the coconut being cloying. All enrobed in single-origin 75% dark chocolate.
The sugar, honestly
About 2 g per 20 g square, from date sugar — whole dried dates ground up, so the fruit's fibre comes with it. That is a genuinely low figure for a filled chocolate and the main reason these exist.
Two qualifications. Date sugar is still sugar and counts as such. And low sugar is not low calorie — nut butter, coconut and cocoa butter are all fat, which carries more than twice the energy of sugar per gram. What the fat and fibre do give you is satiety: one of these is genuinely satisfying in a way a sugar-led chocolate is not.
"100% natural"
Worth noting that this phrase has no legal definition and no agreed meaning. The specific claims here — organic certification, no artificial sweeteners, no sugar alcohols, no added inulin, no soy lecithin, no palm oil — are checkable and are the ones that matter.
Smart Organic
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