Chocolate of the Day
Mid-Day Squares
Functional Chocolate Bar - Almond Crunch
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Weight: 2.33 oz. (66 g.) in total pkg. of 2 squares
Calories: 340 calories in 2 squares (1 package)
Cost: $3.69 for 1 package of 2 squares
Purchased from: Sprouts Farmers Market, Mountain View, CA
Welcome to Day #8 of Cold Chocolate Theme Week, featuring frozen and refrigerated chocolate items.
Today's Almond Crunch Functional Chocolate Bar (2 bar-like squares in one package) hailed from Mid-Day Squares (Montreal, Canada).
The company offers refrigerated bars/squares (including today's Almond Crunch--and two Squares product line sibling flavors: "Fudge Yah" and "Peanut Butta").
This square duo had a pleasing aroma with fudge nut brownie and chocolate almond granola notes; and had more (visible) layered soft and crunchy textures and flavors than a conventional chocolate bar, making it more complex and interesting. (It was topped with a layer of raw, dark chocolate.)
Flavor notes included: chocolate brownie with crunchy, nutty almond bits, and natural, sweet green and maple/caramelized brown sugar and nuts and crispy (implied flour-free chocolate, almond lace) cookie notes.
Seeking to transcend traditional snacks and traditional powdery/dry protein bars, these functional chocolates were defined as: "a chocolate bar with the functions of a protein bar."
Each package/pair of 2 refrigerated organic, gluten-free squares contained 12 g. of "clean" plant protein (almonds, brown rice, sacha inchi,* hemp, etc.--with no soy or dairy), and fiber, yet tasted like a "real" dark chocolate bar with crushed almonds that just happened to be more filling.
Ingredients: Organic roasted almonds, semi-sweet chocolate, (chocolate, cocoa butter, cocoa powder (processed with alkali), coconut sugar,
Allergen-related information: "Contains almonds, coconut...May contain hazelnuts, peanuts."
*Sacha Inca protein comes from edible seeds from a shrubby plant (Plukenetia volubilis) that grows in Peru and other Amazon-proximate South American countries. These nut-like seeds are also known as sacha, mountain or Inca peanuts.
The seeds develop inside unique, flower- or star-shaped pods; and each of the four or five "petals" contain a nut-like seed.
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