A little while back (I'm still stuck in the summer backlog!) a site called detoxyourworld got in touch about review samples. Nothing new there, healthy sites often run promos past us and want to share the latest not-quite-science miracle cures past us, but this place was a bit different - specialising in the raw and organic products that I often nab from the small local stores. In fact it appears to be run out of one of those stores. Their products show that it's more about not sticking the toxins in to your body in the first place than taking them out via dubious means!
Importantly this offer arrived just after I'd tried Ailey Mae's raw chocolate and totally fallen for it - and on their site they had to new to me brands that offered similar delights. Here is a link to their Raw Cocoa section. Today we look at the first - lovechock
Here we see Baskerville guarding the chocolate at work. I've started taking more things in to share because snack-mountain is starting to get faintly ridiculous at home.
Each small bar is 4 segments long which means its hard to share and still have a lot left to eat for yourself. Both varieties come with what appears to be life advice, and are in fully biodegradable packaging.
First up we tried the Mulberry and Vanilla. The texture was a lot more coarse than I was expecting after the lightness of the previous raw chocolate experience. There was an awful lot going on with the flavours too. The chocolate was about 80% dark (vegan friendly) with a very high quality flavour and the fruit was muted but noticeable. I shared this with three others and all were overcome with the powerful flavours. it also contains what it describes as lovechemicals (things that make you happy) and all of the fruity bits are from super foods. This is one of the first things that an office sampling has had my normally quite reserved boss stating that he'd happily buy some of which is quite a recommendation!
For the second bar on the following day of Pineapple and Incaberry I decided to be more frugal and only share it with two others - afterall it was really really nice! This one is sweeter than the first (not from sugar, but coconut blossom!) possibly due to the choice of fruit. The flavour mix is similarly well balanced under the strong chocolate, and interestingly the amount of bits in the bar hive it another harsh texture. It really is more like a non-sticky nougat bar in that it's full of decent sized proper bits to get stuck into.
After eating I noticed that the boxes open up and their plain exterior hide inside a world of wonder. This could just be the lovechemicals talking though...
This is definitely one I'm ordering more of - and as I've not seen this dutch creation anywhere else in the UK yet I guess I'll have to go back to the same site! All in all a pretty unique bar, packed full of surprises.
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