Green & Black’s Milk Chocolate Bar
If there’s one thing I’ve learned since starting this website, it’s what good quality milk chocolate tastes like. I would argue that perhaps my tastes have been skewered a little bit, because I can’t help but compare everything to the top notch stuff I’ve tried, and this is no exception to that rule.
In the past I would have considered this to be excellent stuff. Green & Black’s is posh chocolate, isn’t it? It’s high quality, organic and pricy, so surely this should be right at the top of the milk chocolate range. Sadly, this isn’t quite the case.
The bar uses 34% cocoa solids which is a decent amount for a milk chocolate bar, it has hardly any ingredients though sugar (organic raw cane sugar…if that matters) is still first, with even milk powder coming before the cocoa mass.
This bar falls into a happy medium somewhere between the level of Cadbury’s chocolate and Lindt/Cote d’Or esque chocolate. It’s not bad by any means, but it’s not great, let alone superb like the small, independent chocolate manufacturers that I would class above even Lindt. This probably ranks about a 6/10 overall, it’s tasty, but just not good enough.
It’s a little plain, decent enough but for an ordinary milk chocolate bar that costs about the same as anything from Lindt, I can’t recommend it as other companies do trump this. If it’s on offer it may be worth a shot, but on its own…there are better bars out there.
Per bar this has 523 calories, 9.9g Protein, 54g Carbohydrates and 29.7g Fat.
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January 31st, 2008 at 1:46 am
i’m afraid i don’t eat as much posh choc as you and i’m so immune to the effects of ordinary cadbury type chocolate that this bar makes my head spin a bit! (but without green vomit and devil voices etc). it’s lovely but i’d only have it once in a while. i’m a lightweight compared to you with your chilli chocolate and what not!!
January 31st, 2008 at 5:38 am
Haha, I’m not sure what you mean, Ellie! Why would this make you a bit lightheaded? Granted I’m a bit hard nosed now when it comes to chocolate but still!
January 31st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
well it doesn’t literally make me light headed!! but it certainly has more of an effect on my olfactory system (ooh get me with my sciency terms! couldn’t have just said “it smells strong” could i? oh nooo). it’s just a lot more intense than stuff like cadbury, although not half as strong as some of the stuff you’ve tasted.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I like Green & Black’s but what has happened to their Caramel bar? It was the most delicious bar in the whole range but they’ve withdrawn it. What are they playing at?
January 14th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Extremely strong cocoa-kick for milk chocolate, my Cadbury oriented slightly chocophilistine partner turns up his nose at this being ‘milk’.
I think it is delicious but a little over sweet. G&B have brought out a new creamy milk chocolate, which is really fatty, and to my taste- disgusting.Actually, my partner agreed.
June 1st, 2010 at 7:04 pm
I would have to say that it probably depends on where the cacao is sourced from that determines how much is “too much” percent cacao in milk chocolate according to the consumer. I’ve had organic milk chocolate with cacao content anywhere from 30-50 percent and the different brands all make their own spin on it. How much would you say is too much cacao content for an organic milk chocolate bar?
Tracy Beidelman
Endangered Species Chocolate
October 25th, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Funny. I just munched this and it tasted familiar. Not quite the same, but I wonder whether any elements of CDM manufacture got into this since 2005 ? It is still distinctive, but there is something similar to a CDM.
Perspective: each year I assemble a chocolate party with > 50 types of bar chocolate. Mainly dark, but with a few milk.