Just 1/16th Of Your Daily Calories So Don't Worry! (Kit Kat 2 Finger Dark)

Member Name: eyedo6789

Product:	Kit Kat 2 Finger Dark
Date:	01/04/09 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: Dark Chocolate Is Good For The Blood

Disadvantages: Maybe Too Sickly A Taste For Some

Kit Kat dark is a very good and delicious variation on the standard milk chocolate Kit Kat. As the name suggests it is made with dark(plain chocolate).

From memory it first came out 3 or 4 years ago.

I have to be honest and say that it will taste quite sickly to many people because it has 66% dark chocolate and the other 34% is made up of wafers filled with cream. So it is not for the faint hearted and perhaps somewhat of an acquired taste.

The milk chocolate Kit Kat also has 66% chocolate but milk chocolate is nowhere near as intense a flavour because it has a lower percentage of cocoa in it.

The ingredients on the back look pretty sound. The only "E" number is Soya Lecithin which is E476.

The dark Kit Kat contains 118 calories which Nestle proudly boast on the packaging is 6% of an adult's recommended calorie intake. I don't know if they mean male or female or if it's an average of both.

I am not sure whether the message they are putting across is that you can eat 16.6 of the two fingered bars per day and feel okay or if they are saying that 6% of your calorie allowance on this chocolate treat is nothing to worry about.

I suspect it's the latter, although I can think of worse things to eat should I ever get stranded out at sea with no provisions and no fishing rod.

Each two finger bar has 25g of carbohydrates, 13.3 g of fat and 1.25 g of Protein. So you won't build up much muscle eating it but you will get plenty of energy and energy reserves.

I have been quite keen on eating plain chocolate products ever since I read a few years ago that plain chocolate thins the blood. There is some more research now out that it can help widen the arteries but this is only if you eat the very plainest bitterest dark chocolate.

Anyway, when I fly instead of taking an aspirin to thin my blood (to prevent deep vein thrombosis) I eat some bitter plain chocolate; some plane plain you could say.

The plain chocolate in the Kit Kat is not really bitter but plain is still better for you health wise than milk.

This is a nice piece of confectionery from Nestle but may be too sickly sweet for some.

Summary: A Pleasant Change From The Milk Version