Food review: Raw Intent’s Delight Bars, Bitter Bites and Raw Chocolate Heart Minis
RRP £4.49 to £4.99
Rating:
Bitter Bites: **1/2 (out of 5)
Delight Bars: **1/2 (out of 5)
Heart Minis: *** ½ (out of 5)
Review by: Psyche
Healthy chocolate. Isn’t the product description itself a contradiction in terms?
Chocolate should be a decadent treat, an indulgence to be paid off through penance in the gym. Can there really be chocolate that is good for you? Improbably enough, Raw Intent has created a range of such products.
Apropos to Valentine’s Day, I recently sampled a variety of their Raw Chocolate Delights candies, created from raw cacao, coconut butter, low GI natural sweeteners such as agave and lacuna, and vanilla. These bonbons are organic, vegan and suitable for diabetics. What’s not to love?
Delight Bars
First up were Delight Bars, cubes of dark chocolate filled with a creamy centre. Not for the sweet-toothed are these. The bitter dark shell has a complex flavour that lingers on the tongue, but is tempered by the rich sweetness of the fudgy centre.
Bitter Bites
Similar to these were the more aptly named Bitter Bites, which are dusted with powdered cacao. Unfortunately for my palate, the dark bitterness of the outer shell tended to overpower the sweetness of the creamy centre, particularly with the Delight Bars. But those who like their chocolate not just dark, but black as the jungle night, should find these a real treat.
Raw Chocolate Heart Minis
Closer to conventional confectionary were their new, and best-selling, Raw Chocolate Heart Minis. No baking chocolate here, just melt-in-your-mouth squidginess.
Proving these sweets’ healthy credentials was the graininess and tell-tale aftertaste of the raw chocolate, which conspired to tempt me into further bites. If your Valentine’s on a health kick, then these would be the perfect treat.
Further information:
Raw Intent (official site)
Raw Intent chocolate reviews (The London Reviewer)
Conscious Chocolate reviews (The London Reviewer)
What makes for good chocolate? (The London Reviewer)
What’s in raw chocolate? (The London Reviewer)
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