Total Raw Food’s Real Red Bar
The final Total Raw Food bar, though there are more in the range, I definitely won’t be paying £2.85 each for the rest (editor’s note: They’ve been reduced to £1.90 each for all of May, typical, eh). Same old situation: 58% cocoa solids bar, all organic, dairy-free, ethically sourced ingredients. This bar though has whole goji berries mixed in, lovely!
I’ve never had goji berries before, and know practically nothing about them other than that the health food people are all over them nowadays. They’re also known as wolf berries, and are so expensive that I’ve never bothered going near them.
The bar only has 5% goji berries here, so it’s not exactly full of them, and I actually had to get halfway into the bar before I located a bit, though one of the squares ended up having about two or three of them in, which was the only piece I could taste them.
When I did taste them, I liked them. I can’t describe the flavour too well, but with the deep flavour of the raw cacao, this was obviously fruity and well…pleasant, for lack of a better word, and definitely the tastiest of the three bars.
My overall impression of the bars is that they’re nice, I like that everything is ethically sourced, with good ingredients and no damage to the environment. But this comes at a high price, they are simply too expensive, far too expensive, even at half the price I would think twice about buying them.
Also, the bars don’t have enough variety in flavour. I’ll accept I have a lack of experience with raw cacao, but once there was a definite flavour in one of the bars (goji berries), I could taste it. Yet with the others, there was nothing. I’m unsure of how the others match up, but I have no reason to believe it wouldn’t be more of the same.
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May 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Is it just me or does that chocolate look seriously mouldy?
May 5th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
The chocolate looks bad, I’ll give you that, the way it looked reminded me of those Whittard’s chocolate thin things I had before. Not sure about mould, I certainly hope not anyway. :/
May 5th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
i’m sure it’s only a matter of time before ‘mould infusions’ become a selling point