Chocolate Heaven (Green & Black's Organic Chocolate Ice Cream)

Member Name: coolcam7

Product:	Green & Black's Organic Chocolate Ice Cream
Date:	22/05/04 (90 review reads)
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Advantages: delicious flavour, organic and fairtrade, widely available

Disadvantages: a little more expensive than most brands

***About Green & Blacks***

If you?ve ever tried any Green & Blacks chocolate then you?ll know just how good it tastes. Their cocoa beans aren?t sprayed with chemicals and their products contain a higher percent of cocoa solids than the majority of brands, they also use cocoa butter rather than vegetable fat resulting in a devilishly good flavour.
Their cocoa beans are also fair-trade so you know the farmers are getting a good deal. Everything about their chocolate just seems so positive. Green & Blacks is a small company based in London and were founded in 1991. They believe that organic products and fair-trade are inextricably linked. Food that doesn?t use pesticides and other chemicals is better for the people growing the food, the environment and also the consumer.

***The Ice-Cream***

Green and Blacks chocolate ice cream comes in a 500ml brown coloured cardboard tub with the words Green & Black?s written in cream-coloured writing, it looks stylish and sophisticated! This product is organic the stamp of approval confirms that it meets the soil association?s high standards. The main ingredient is actually water but the ice cream contains 30% organic cream. Green & Black?s insist that they only buy their finest-quality fresh organic cream directly from British farmers. You might also notice that this is an impressively high percentage of real cream which isn?t always found in some brands of ice-cream.

They only use ingredients of the highest quality so there is no compromise to the taste. They also whip less air into their ice-cream which means you get a more intense flavour per spoonful than with most ice-cream creating a dense, rich texture which melts more slowly in the mouth. Unfortunately this means that it is incredibly hard when you get it out the freezer so you have to leave it to stand for sometime before you can spoon it out of the tub.

The ice-cream costs £3.79 from Tesco but they occasionally have offers
on especially neat the summer so look out for the special offers. It contains 176kcal and 9.8g fat per 100g which isn?t actually that bad so long as you can stop yourself from eating the whole pot!

***The Taste***

On opening the lid a rich chocolately smell wafts out of the tub. The ice cream is a darker than average chocolate colour (the ice-cream is a dark chocolate ice cream). It takes a while to soften but it?s worth the wait. The texture is very creamy and it tastes so rich, a very intense flavour than you don?t get with cheap ice creams.

The taste is so delicious you can really taste the chocolate rather than the synthetic flavour you get with some ice creams. It?s so smooth and creamy with no artificial aftertaste either. This ice cream, for me, is not too sweet either it has a perfect balance between bitter and sweet. It is so rich that even after just a small portion you feel satisfied. It isn?t too heavy either but it is seriously chocolatey.

This is a truly delicious ice-cream and it comes highly recommended. It was voted the very best chocolate ice cream on the market in the Which? Report of 2002. It is widely available and also comes in chocolate orange, chocolate mint, vanilla caramel nut, vanilla, dark toffee, praline and they also have chocolate ice creams on sticks. I would definitely recommend this ice cream, it will not disappoint!

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