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Cocoa, sugar, the third thing · 3 min

Chocolate is allowed. The bar is a recipe.

A 70% bar with cocoa, sugar, cocoa butter is a treat with a short list. A ‘protein’ chocolate or a spread with palm oil is a different object.

Shop the Chocolate aisle

The keep

Cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, maybe vanilla, maybe lecithin. Darker usually means less sugar. Milk chocolate can still be honest. Kids’ bars with a toy are candy.

The walk-away

Palm oil as a cocoa-butter stand-in, PGPR, a rainbow of extras. Nutella is a lesson, not a breakfast. Scan the spread and the bar side by side — same aisle, different lives.

How to shop it

Cocoa, sugar, cocoa butter. If the third thing is palm oil or a toy, it is candy. Darker usually means less sugar, not a vitamin. Scan the bar.

The extras we mean

On our shelves

Real packs. Tap one — the score is the same as the rest of the shop.

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