Green & Black's Unwrapped! (Green & Black's Organic Chocolate Collection)

Member Name: wulise

Product:	Green & Black's Organic Chocolate Collection
Date:	20/01/02 (180 review reads)
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Advantages: Taste Great., Good for the local economy., Great for the enviroment.

Disadvantages: Cost is a little expensive.

Many people would say that all chocolate is the same. Well I beg to differ. Green and Black's Organic Chocolate is made for anyone who enjoy a rich flavour and smooth texture.

I am very aware of environmental concerns and love to buy organic food. In 1991 Josephine Fairley and Craig Sams set up Green & Black's in with the aim to make an organic chocolate. There philosophy was to create a pure product of unadulterated luxury that in turn would also be less harmful to the environment. Now surely luxury and caring for the environment is a contraction in turns. Not so! No chemicals or genetically modified ingredients enter in this chocolate making process, thus ensuring that Green and Black's Organic Chocolate is one of the purest chocolates on the market today.

Green and Black are pledged to protecting the planet, thus explaining their 'organic' status. The Cocoa that is bought from the small-scale farmers is cultivated without using pesticides or artificial fertilisers. Instead of chemicals, shady trees are planted amongst the cocoa trees to help preserve rather destroy the forest canopy, bringing together life a in a bio diverse agricultural environment. As a company, Green and Black's want the best for their family growers and so a higher price for organic cocoa beans than many other companies. Through this ethical trade approach, Green & Black's Maya Gold became the first chocolate to carry the Fairtrade mark.

I will often buy this range of chocolate for Shane and also as a treat for my God Children too. I tend to only buy milk chocolate for them, as it is sweeter than dark chocolate.


**Types of Chocolate**

*Milk Chocolate*
This is the most popular type of chocolate in the world today. Milk Chocolate comprises of roughly 50% sugar, 25-30% milk solids and 20-25% cocoa solids.

Dark Chocolate
This chocolate makes up 5-10% of the total chocolate eaten in many countries ar
ound the world. Its composition is usually about 55% sugar and 45% cocoa solids.

NB Green & Black's Dark chocolate is made with 70% cocoa solids and the delicious Green & Black's milk chocolate is made using 34% cocoa solids. So you can see why it is so popular.


**Where To Buy It**

Tescos Stores
Waitrose Stores
Health Food Shops


**Trivia Time**
Did you know in its pure unsweetened form chocolate is used in some savoury dishes? The most famous is probably 'Mole Poblano', a Mexican speciality of turkey cooked in a chilli, chocolate and nut sauce.


**Truffles**

Chocolate has become synonymous with romance and with good reason. When chocolate first became popular in Europe several centuries ago. It was thought to invigorate men and make women less inhibited, thus making it the ideal gift to bestow upon your sweetheart. Oh if this were really true! These Truffles are luxurious and rich but light on the stomach. They will make excellent Valentine's Day gift for any chocolate lover!

*Ingredients*
Organic cocoa mass, organic raw cane sugar, organic butter, organic cocoa butter, organic vegetable fat, organic cocoa powder (1.8%), emulsifier: lecithin, organic vanilla.

*Nutritional Information*
Energy 2360kJ/565kcal,
Protein 5.6g,
Carbohydrate 29.0g,
Fat 47.4g.

*Cautions*
May contain traces of nuts.

*Cost*
£3.80 per 100g


**For Further Information**

Website:www.greenandblacks.com

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