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Hageland
Limited Selection
Madagascar 32% Milk Chocolate bar
Good - Good +
Weight: .858 oz. (25.08 g.) / 3.5 oz. (100 g.) in total bar
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Cost: $1.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, Palo Alto, CA
Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Madagascar Theme Week.
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On the Hageland package was a silhouette of a baobab (Adansonia) tree**—found in Madagascar (Africa and Northern Australia).
The bar had a sweet, caramel fudge aroma, and a smooth, rich, slightly gummy melt. It did have a caramel taste and texture as well.
Tasting notes: honey and caramel -- "rounded off by subtle acid cocoa notes, vanilla and butter."
"Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, vanilla (nat. flavor). Milk chocolate: cocoa solids min. 32% -- milk solids min. 26%"
This bar was imported into the U.S. by: SCO Koladen, LLC (Hayward, CA).
Other interesting information on the packaging: "Made with 100% renewable energy, ca. 20% from our own solar panels." Go solar.
*It's possible that the same cacao fruit (pod) may contain more than one of these three varieties. In fact, there has been enough intermingling that it's often difficult to find 100% pure genetic strains that are related to geographic origins.
** Baobab fruit in powdered form is a pleasant sweet-tart inclusion in chocolate as well.
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