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Review of Conscious Chocolate’s organic, raw chocolate bar Choca Mocha Magic.

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Food feature: the art of good hot chocolate
By: Alexa Williamson
Hot chocolate’s origins
Before chocolate was available as a bar, truffle, cake or pastry, it was first created in Mexico as a hot, sugar free drink – ie hot chocolate. Originally ground from the cocoa pod and frothed into a fantastic, dark ambrosia, it was then seasoned [...]

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Feature: Who are Conscious Chocolate?
By: Alexa Williamson
Having recently reviewed Conscious Chocolate’s raw, organic dark chocolate range (which is also vegan and uses the low GI sweetener agave, a fructose from cactus), I was so impressed with their environmentally and socially conscious approach to business, I thought they deserved to have a spotlight shown on them.
Not [...]

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Food review: Conscious Chocolate’s Best Ever Citrus Zest
Rating: *** (out of 5)
Review by: Alexa Williamson
A great bar with a lovely tang to it thanks to the grapefruit, orange, lemon and lime in it. However, gets a slightly lower rating than Conscious Chocolate’s Best Ever Essential Orange as the zests in the bar don’t blend as [...]

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Food review: Conscious Chocolate’s Best Ever Hint of Mint
by Conscious Chocolate, RRP £2.50 for 40g
Rating: **** (out of 5)
Review by: Chris Sparkes

This chocolate from Conscious was my first foray into the world of raw chocolate. Conscious’ website lists several benefits of this raw form, such as the ability to act as an antioxidant, nutrition from [...]

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Product review: Conscious Chocolate’s Love Your Heart Superfood chocolate
Rating: **** (out of 5)
RRP £3.95 for 40g
Review by: Alexa Williamson
Wasn’t sure what to expect from this raw, dark chocolate bar, as I wasn’t too keen on the combination of spices in their Love Potion No 9 (also raw, dark chocolate). However, this one was absolutely scrumptious!
This [...]

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Food review: Conscious Chocolate’s Love Potion No 9
by Conscious Chocolate, RRP £3.95 for 40g
Rating: ** (out of 5)
Review by: Alexa Williamson
This raw, organic and (obviously vegan) dark chocolate sounded exciting with a list of ingredients that includes essential oil of Otto Rose and spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cayenne. However, it failed to [...]

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Food review: Valor Sugar Free Dark Chocolate – 70% cacao
Rating: 0 (out of 5)
Review by: Alexa Williamson
Trying to keep my sugar consumption low in 2008, I thought I’d give this bar a try as the 70% cacoa content appealed. However, the artificial sweetener (which carries health risks) in this bar, aspartame, and malitol [...]

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Food review: Raw Intent’s Raw Chocolate Pie Bites
RRP – £3.49
Rating: ****1/2 (out of 5)
Review by: Alexa Williamson
For chocolate lovers – especially those who are into dark chocolate – this is a heavenly experience as it’s all natural with the main ingredient being raw cacao, mixed with coconut butter, brazil nuts, macadamia, almonds, agave (a natural [...]

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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 [...]

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