I’ve reviewed a bunch of Thorntons bars in the past but it has been awhile, and so when I saw this Mint bar I figured “why not?” A milk chocolate bar with a dark chocolate finish and a crunchy peppermint flavoured truffle centre, this sounded decent enough.

Peppermint flavour instantly puts me off though, as I’m sure most of you can understand. The mint crunch (5%) has sugar as its main ingredient, and natural peppermint oil behind it, very disappointing. I’m sure the bar will taste minty but I’d like some authenticity there, is that too much to ask from a company that prides themselves on being somewhat classy?

So as you can see in the picture it’s a very soft milk chocolate bar, and dark chocolate has been dripped over it. The centre of it is very truffley and there are crunchy mint pieces within. It looks pretty but feels very greasy, due to the chocolate melting at room temperature I guess.

I said the bar would taste minty, and it kinda does, though it’s weak. There’s a lot of chocolate here and sometimes the mint struggles to really come through because of how small an amount of it there is, towards the end I couldn’t taste it at all because of the large amount of mintless truffle that was there. What is there is decent, it tastes pepperminty but it’s crunchy and sugary and not altogether fantastic.

And that about sums the bar up. I enjoyed it, but it was ok at best. Thorntons really skimped with this one, a bit of authentic peppermint flavour and more of it would help a lot, as it is this is just an insult to mint bars really, and an insult to their own name. Thorntons can do better than this.