Another of the bars I was sent from Oxford Ethical is this Austrian made ‘dark mountain milk chocolate filled with mango and Brazil nuts’. The ingredients are fairtrade certified and from controlled organic cultivation.

The wrapper is very retro looking and quite arty, not like something you’d see in the supermarket but in a specialist shop. The ingredients make for interesting reading, you’d expect to see sugar or chocolate at the top of the list, but no, instead ‘mango & mango mash (32%) tops it. Mango mash? I’m not sure if that sounds great or terrible, but it did make me laugh, I wonder if it’s like the monster mash.

Within the paper wrapper is a nice foil-paper wrapper, and within that is our bar. It looks very plain at first sight, it’s just a tablet style bar. It’s very greasy to the touch, and quite melty, and the taste is unlike anything I’ve ever had before.

The amount of mango in this bar is unreal. 32% is a lot, a heck of a lot of mango. It’s definitely mashed mangos, and they seem to be on a bed of Brazil nut paste. So basically we have bittersweet chocolate, and within is one layer of mango on top of one layer of Brazil Nuts. It’s quite thick, very fruity, and very tasty. I’ve never really had mango before and I’ve certainly never seen a bar use it anything like this before.

Zotter have created something special here, this is how a real fruit and nut bar should work. Screw throwing a few raisins and hazelnuts into a bar, let’s grind up some mangos and Brazil Nuts and stick a massive amount of it in. Good job Zotter, probably the best fruit and nut bar I’ve ever had.