It has been awhile since I posted a general product review, but the other day I saw a product that I just had to try and I thought you might want to learn a bit about it. As regulars readers of The Chocolate Cult know, my favorite candy are Reese's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, particular their Thins variety. These have gotten harder and harder to find, so I was surprised to see that General Mills has a Reese's Puffs cereal with the "Dark Chocolate" label.
While the book and label may boost of their added vitamins and minerals, this is right next door to candy since sugar is the second ingredient. Since I'm looking at that nutrition facts section on the box, let me point out that two types of our Sacred Chocolate are used in this product – cocoa processed with alkali rests at number 8 while at the 10th spot is cocoa, both declare "Hershey's". Regardless of the name of this product, with cocoa the only chocolatey ingredient and so far down the list, I doubted it was going to taste like dark chocolate.
I was correct; this doesn't taste like dark chocolate, not even like cocoa powder which would be about as dark as you can get. However at least there is a bit of chocolatey flavor which I have never thought was true for the original Reese's Puffs. If you like the peanut butter but think that the regular cereal was too sweet, the cocoa takes a bit of that sugar edge off.
I do really love the back of the box thought it sends a few mixed messages about dark chocolate, don't you think? Is it good, is it bad? Are you good or bad for liking your chocolate darker? What do you think?
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