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All Cadbury's chocolate bars under 250 calories?!

notafanofsugar

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notafanofsugar said:
Just read this about all cadbury's chocolate bars being under 250 calories each. It's interesting as I do think it's a good idea - but does that mean that people will soon not know what a proper portion size is and need that instructed to them? I do worry about the future generations!!

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...besity-pledge-cap-chocolate-calories-mondelez
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Not a good idea, Cadburys is what we call 'Compound Chocolate', that is it is only around 20% chocolate and the rest is fillers and additives (read the label - it's like reading a restaurant menu). Real chocolate is a minimum of 43% cocoa products, with only sugar or sweetener, soy lecithin and vanilla.
What this means is that Cadburys will shove yet another filler in it. The real reason is not to bring down the calorie count, but as the world price of the ingredients are soaring, the idea is to make it even less like chocolate and use more artificial ingredients.
As far as portion size goes, the details are written on the label by law, but no-one reads them.
 
notafanofsugar said:
Just read this about all cadbury's chocolate bars being under 250 calories each. It's interesting as I do think it's a good idea - but does that mean that people will soon not know what a proper portion size is and need that instructed to them? I do worry about the future generations!!

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...besity-pledge-cap-chocolate-calories-mondelez
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Saw a report on this pledge on Radio Scotland. Theyhad a dietician mouthing off that the reduction size was the only alternative to reformulation which could cause the loss of the "traditional chocolate taste".
Does this mean that as well as having no idea on sensible carb levels, dieticians have either never tasted proper chocolate or have no sense of taste!
 
They'll get round it by reducing the size of the chocolate bars (again) and won't alter the recipe, what is certain they won't reduce the price accordingly.
 
FergusCrawford said:
Saw a report on this pledge on Radio Scotland. Theyhad a dietician mouthing off that the reduction size was the only alternative to reformulation which could cause the loss of the "traditional chocolate taste".
Does this mean that as well as having no idea on sensible carb levels, dieticians have either never tasted proper chocolate or have no sense of taste!
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Of course they haven't! Is the dietician a specialist on cocoa solids in a bar? My chocolate treat is 85% cocoa dark chocolate one piece every couple of days about an hour before I go to bed. Mmmmm!
The reduction is to cut costs and keep it cheap (and nasty!) can you remember when they brought out curly wurleys? they were huge about 10 inches long! Now, about four inches long and rubbish!
 
nosher8355 said:
Of course they haven't! Is the dietician a specialist on cocoa solids in a bar? My chocolate treat is 85% cocoa dark chocolate one piece every couple of days about an hour before I go to bed. Mmmmm!
The reduction is to cut costs and keep it cheap (and nasty!) can you remember when they brought out curly wurleys? they were huge about 10 inches long! Now, about four inches long and rubbish!
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Much the same for all chocolate bars, remember Yorkie Bars, one of the taglines was you couldn't eat the whole bar in one go, they are around half the size they once were
 
noblehead said:
Much the same for all chocolate bars, remember Yorkie Bars, one of the taglines was you couldn't eat the whole bar in one go, they are around half the size they once were
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Picnics, marathon bars, mars bars, when they brought these out when I was a nipper, you could fall off them and hurt yourself!
 
Isn't Hershey's made out of chocolate flavour? Like those really cheap and nasty eggs you get around Easter!
 
nosher8355 said:
Isn't Hershey's made out of chocolate flavour? Like those really cheap and nasty eggs you get around Easter!
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They are extremely sweet, my lad give me a taste of his and it wasn't up to much, a lot of hype about nothing.
 
When we went to the US, one of the things on my To Do list was to sample a Hershey's bar and a peanut butter cup.

My goodness, the disappointment.

No wonder chocolate doesn't have such a high status in the US as it does in the UK. The cocoa solid % was so low as to make them almost tasteless. Bland, yacky and lacking in anything scrumpluscious.

And that was before I developed my palette enough to appreciate (glances over to the table by her side) Ivory Coast and Dominican Republic dark chocolate at 85% cocoa solids.
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Yes, I am a choccie snob.
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Me too, for Father's Day my grand kids topped the fridge up with 85%, for my little treat, 2 pieces every night! Mmmmmm!
 
I find the higher percentage of dark chocolate very bitter. I was never a lover of dark chocolate unless it was an after eight mint at Christmas.
 
Brunneria said:
When we went to the US, one of the things on my To Do list was to sample a Hershey's bar and a peanut butter cup.

My goodness, the disappointment.

No wonder chocolate doesn't have such a high status in the US as it does in the UK. The cocoa solid % was so low as to make them almost tasteless. Bland, yacky and lacking in anything scrumpluscious.

Yes, I am a choccie snob.
:happy::happy::happy:
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...I'm a choccie slob I like those peanut butter cups :oops: ...like dark chocolate too but not in too high a percentage of cocoa..
 
SJC said:
I find the higher percentage of dark chocolate very bitter. I was never a lover of dark chocolate unless it was an after eight mint at Christmas.
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I never used to like dark chocolate :***: But when I got T2, I jumped on the 85% wagon and now love the stuff. I like the idea that i can still eat something, anything, from the confectionery aisle :D
 
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