Chocolate of the Day
DAR Chocolate
Hibiscus Art Bar - Hibiscus Dark Chocolate 72% cacao (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .88 oz. (25 g.) / 1.75 oz. (50 g.) in total bar
Calories: 132 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $9.50 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Xocolatl Garden, Carmel, CA
Welcome to Day #7 of Chocolate & Flowers Theme Week.
Today's DAR Chocolate Hibiscus Art Bar - Hibiscus Dark Chocolate 72% cacao (bar) was manufactured by DAR Chocolate LLC (Thornton, CO). The team at DAR honors artists in their packaging; and this Hibiscus bar was a collaboration with The Morgan Adams Foundation ("Funding Kids Cancer Research") that featured the art of Gifford Ewing.
Hibiscus has become a more popular floral flavor inclusion over the last few decades. This tart-sweet flower adds an uplifting, citrus + red berry-like flavor to chocolate. (Originally from Africa, Spanish galleons (ships) brought hibiscus flowers to the Caribbean and Mexico in the 1500s.)*
Aroma and flavor notes this this Hibiscus bar included: smooth dark chocolate, blueberry and faint floral (hibiscus).
I enjoyed the refreshing dark berry flavor that was part of this smooth dark chocolate, and appreciated the relatively short list of organic ingredients.
Ingredients: cacao liquor*, cane sugar*, cacao butter*, Hibiscus essence. (*organic)
Allergen-related information: Made in a facility that processes milk, peanuts and tree nuts.
*Hibiscus is related to cacao. Both are in the Malvaceae or mallow family--along with plants as varied as cotton, okra, durian and balsa.
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