Mmmmmm, sugar (or more accurately - mmmmm fake sugar). (Cadbury Highlights Fudge)

Member Name: edgirl

Product:	Cadbury Highlights Fudge
Date:	13/10/09 (49 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Satisfies your sweet tooth

Disadvantages: Not very chocolatey

In an earnest attempt to stop me visiting the vending machine at work, I try to bring along healthier sweet things from home. This is where hot chocolate drinks come in. I bought the sachets of Cadbury Highlights chocolate fudge from the co-op for 39p I believe.

The packaging:
I bought the sachets, not the big pot. There are 2 sachets joined together that are easily torn apart. Each sachet is enough for a small to medium sized mug of hot chocolate (which is unfortunate, since my mug at work is big enough to hold about 3 pygmy hedgehogs). The chocolate fudge flavour packet is brown with yellow highlighting.

To make:
Simply tear open the sachet (easy to do, but make sure the powder is at the bottom or you will end up with it everywhere!) and put it in a mug. Add boiling water and stir - and there you have it! A mid-brown liquid, mmmm. I tend to add a little milk to mine to make it a) creamier and therefore more satisfying and b) cooler so I can drink it sooner as I am that impatient. The smell it very sweet, with a hint of chocolate.

The taste:
Well, being a diet hot chocolate, it is less creamy due to less fat and therefore Cadbury made up for that my adding more sweeteners. Ant it is very sweet. There is definitely a chocolatey taste, but it is not very authentic. The 'fudge' taste is kind of like a caramel hint to me - its quite nice. Overall the sweetness overpowers the chocolate taste a little bit, but I still quite like it. It definitely satisfies my sweet tooth, even if it does leave a very slight fake sugar aftertaste (although nowhere near as bad as some other artificially sweetened drinks).

What's in the sachet?
Each 11g sachet will provide you with 40 kcal, 3.7g sugar, 1.3g fat and 0.31g salt. Nothing over much more than 5% of your guideline daily amount and only 2% of your total calorie needs. So overall, it doesn't provide you with much of anything but it's a lot better than a chocolate bar! Although if you were to drink 10 cups, it will end up being very high in sugar, but don't do that as the fake sugar will give you some more urgent problems to think about....ahem!

Ingredients wise, there is a lot of milk products, dried cocoa, sugar, oil, milk chocolate and flavourings. And aspartame and acesulfame K as the sweeteners. So not suitable for people with lactose or soya intolerance, and the sachet tells me that it may contain traces of cereals, so watch out if you're gluten intolerant. I don't know if it is suitable for vegetarians, but it doesn't say so on the packet so be warned...

Overall:
An overly sweet hot chocolate drink, but that actually works in its favour as it works at satisfying my sweet tooth rather well. It loses a star for not being more chocolatey - the dark chocolate variety is much better.

Summary: A low calorie alternative to chocolate