I picked up three of these bars from Total Raw Food: Real Blue, Purple, and Red. The Real Blue bar is a 58% minimum cocoa solids, 40g bar, with cyanobacteria (commonly known as blue-green algae) mixed into it. Yeah, no kidding.

So these bars have “no wheat, no dairy, no gluten, no refined sugar, no destructive heat processing, no problem”. Great, eh? This is raw cacao too, i.e. unroasted chocolate. That in itself is something I haven’t tried before, and with…blue-green algae…well, I took a bit of a risk with this.

The bar comes inside a little plastic wrapper, which like yesterday, is a little underwhelming, but there we are. And again like yesterday’s bar, as soon as I touched it, I was left with a residue all over my fingers.

The bar has an odd look to it, I’m reluctant to call it greasy, lest I be made to look like a fool, but that’s really what it looks like. As you can see, it’s not too thick, but what it is pure chocolate, with the inside being ever so slightly truffle-like.

It’s very rich, considering it’s only 58%, I think they did that about right. Anymore and I think it would just be too rich. As for the blue green algae, what does it add? I have no idea because I just don’t have any prior experience with raw cacao, in order to be able to tell the difference, though it does have a slight aftertaste.

At £2.85 a bar, I’m reluctant to recommend this. It’s nice, sure. It’s different, sure. It does wonders for the environment, sure. But it’s just too expensive, and there’s just not enough of it. If you can afford this, give it a try, if not, then you won’t be missing out on too much.