Saturday, May 8, 2010

Candy Review: Chunky


Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, milkfat, lactose, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, PGPR - an emulsifier), peanuts, raisins, TBHQ and citric acid (added to preserve freshness)


After the Whatchamacallit, I was heartened to see that "chocolate" was the first ingredient here (although actual chocolate was a minority ingredient in that "chocolate"). Nestle bills this as "milk chocolate with peanuts and raisins". Pretty standard, just fruit and nut in a little 40g square. Shara opened this, and was overwhelmed by the smell. Indeed, having consumed this some time ago, the smell coming from the wrapper is still quite powerful. It smells like chemicals. A lot like chemicals. The taste was a bit better, but still not great. The raisins and nuts were fine, but the chocolate itself didn't really taste of anything. The closest it got to chocolate flavour was a very mild taste of instant coffee. Shara said it tasted like charcoal but I thought it just tasted like a bunch of sugar with some peanuts in it. Again, I feel much worse after having consumed it, but I don't want to put all of the blame for this on the candy bar.

My rating: 2.5 stars
Shara rating: 0.5 stars

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