Eat Gold Organics - The Untamed 70% Cacao (bar) - Mar. 16, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

Eat Gold Organics
The Untamed 70% Cacao (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .97 oz. (27.5 g.) / 1.94 oz. (55 g.) in total bar
Calories: 160 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $ Missing information (Current price on website: $15.00)
Purchased from: The Village Market, S.F. Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 

Welcome to Day #4 of Chocolate and Gold Theme Week, including several chocolates with "gold" connections, and a few that actually contain gold.

Today's "The Untamed" 70% Cacao (bar) was from Heart of Gold Organics (Minneapolis, MN). The company produces a line of different chocolate bars; and, yes, this Limited Edition bar from Tasya Van Ree did contain attractive, festive flecks of 24K gold.

My tasting notes: smooth, and slightly woodsy dark chocolate with a bit of very subtle sweet fruit, botanical and light umami and pleasant wood in the relatively long finish.

 Ingredients: Specialty Cacao*, Coconut Sugar*, Cocoa Butter*, Lions Mane Mushrooms*, Rhodiola Rosea*, 24K Gold (* = Organic)

Allergen-related information: Manufactured in a Facility That Processes Tree Nuts, Milk, Wheat & Peanuts.

Eat Gold Organics - Sweet Dreams (bar) - Mar. 15, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

Eat Gold Organics
Sweet Dreams 70% Cacao (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .97 oz. (27.5 g.) / 1.94 oz. (55 g.) in total bar
Calories: 120 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $ Missing information
Purchased from: The Village Market, S.F. Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 

Welcome to Day #3 of Chocolate and Gold Theme Week, including several chocolates with "gold" connections, and a few that actually contain gold.

Today's Sweet Dreams 70% Cacao (bar) was from Heart of Gold Organics (Minneapolis, MN). The company produces a line of different chocolate bars. (One of these does contain gold, and I'm featuring that one tomorrow.) In the meantime, this Sweet Dreams bar was described as "Adaptogen Nootropic Infused."*

My tasting notes: smooth, and slightly woodsy dark chocolate with a balanced bit of bitter in the finish.

 Ingredients: Specialty Cacao*, Coconut Sugar*, Cocoa Butter*, Almonds* (* = Organic)

Allergen-related information: Manufactured in a Facility That Processes Tree Nuts

*Normally the theobromine (the primary stimulant in cacao) keeps people feeling wide awake. However, I didn't quite get the same buzz I associate with some dark chocolates -- likley due to use of coconut sugar, vs. refined "white" sugar. (Coconut sugar is lower on the glycemic index.) 

Cacao is considered by some to have nootropic (cognitive enhancing) properties. I'm not sure if the unspecified "adaptogen nootropic" properties of this particular chocolate contributed to a sense of relative calm or not. And there was no other information available on the packaging to explain how this bar was "formulated to reach a deeper, more restful sleep." I guess I'll find out tonight....P.S. I slept very well and did have great dreams.