Chocolate of the Day
Antidote
Mermaid - Seaweed + Toasted Black Sesame Milk Chocolate 56% cacao (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.15 oz. (32.5 g.) / 2.3 oz. (65 g.) in total bar
Calories: 200 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $10.00 (estimate) for 1 bar
Purchased from: Antidote Chocolate, online order
Ahoy, and welcome to Day #11 of Chocolate and The Sea Theme Week; and Day #1 of Chocolate and Seeds Theme Week.
Today's Antidote Mermaid - Seaweed + Toasted Black Sesame Milk Chocolate 56% cacao (bar) was made in Ecuador. Antidote Creative Director, CEO, and self-described chocolate dreamer, Ms. Red Thalhammer, is Austrian and is based in the U.S.
Aroma notes for this bar included: dark milk chocolate; fruit (sweet, diffuse, dried fig, citrus, berry); and faint umami (sesame, seaweed) and muted fresh wood shavings (cedar). Arriba Nacional (variety) cacao was used to make this 56% cacao milk chocolate.
This smooth (light/fluffy and creamy) dark milk chocolate yielded to a generous field of tiny, crunchy black sesame seeds.
Flavor notes included: sweet-ish, dark milk chocolate with nutty/seedy (sesame), and faint, fleeting umami, seaweed (think very lightly salted nori), and barely detectable, pleasant wood. These flavors politely lingered into the finish, with an occasional very tiny pops of authentic sesame or seaweed flavor breaking through.
I always enjoy trying chocolate and umami flavor blends. I was expecting more salt (which often accompanies umami/savory flavors) in today's bar. There was very little. This milk chocolate was neither ultra sweet nor too salty--or heavy in any way. The flavors were complex but almost delicate. These flavors and the salt were made much more low-key by the milk.
Maker's description: "...brings...all the flavor--without all the sugar."..."In just one bite you'll encounter what we like to call "an experiential escape."
Ingredients: "cacao beans, cacao butter, milk powder, whole cane sugar, black sesame seeds, nori seaweed, sunflower lecithin."
Allergen-related information: Contains milk, sesame. "Made in a facility that handles soy and nuts."
