Green and Black's ginger chocolate is a sweet dark chocolate bar containing 60% cocoa with 20% embedded pieces of crystallised ginger. Costing £1.89 for a 100g bar, it is one of the posher everyday widely available brands that you can pick up in most supermarkets or health food stores (though don't make the mistake of thinking that means they are healthy - they aren't!). All of the ingredients of the bar are organically certified according to the Soil Association's standards and do not contain any genetically modified material.

Green and Black's are based in London and have been making organic chocolate since 1991. Unlike their Maya Gold brand, the Ginger brand is not fair trade; their website says that they pay premium price for all their ingredients, but not all are available under the fair trade scheme.

===The bars===
The ginger chocolate bars is extremely sweet for a dark chocolate bar - presumably due to the high sugar content - most dark chocolate bars of this quality are 70% cocoa and correspondingly much more bitter. As such, more than a few pieces of this are somewhat overbearing in their sweetness. The ginger is quite subtle and is not overpowering in flavour, and it does permeate the chocolate beyond the small pieces.

The texture of the chocolate also has much less of the crystalline brittleness of higher cocoa content bars - it is very smooth apart from the ginger crystals. Don't let the chocolate get hot though - after it has melted and reset, it gets a very waxy and brittle feel to it. The bars have a shelf life of about 18 months, so it does last pretty well.

===The packaging===
Like the other chocolate bars in the Green and Black's range, the paper packaging is dark brown with golden writing, with a band on the top of the pack indicating the flavour - in this case, a pale orange colour.

===The nutrition===
All the ingredients of this bar are organic. Cocoa products, sugar, crystallised ginger, emulsifier and vanilla extract list in the ingredients. Like the other brands in the range, Milk powder is listed as a contaminant ingredient, though according to their FAQ, this is because of cross-contamination rather than because it is an intended ingredient. As well as trace milk allergens, it is not suitable for people with soya allergies.

Per 100g of chocolate, there are 501kcal, 6.8g protein, 53g carbohydrates and 29.1g fat. So don't have this very often if you don't want to put on weight!

===Conclusion===
The chocolate is pretty tasty and good for when you don't want a bitter chocolate. I prefer their Maya Gold brand personally.

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