Chocolate of the Day
Origen Cacao
Vegan White Chocolate with Nibs (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.23 oz. (35 g.) / 2.47 oz. (70 g.) in total bar
Calories: 200 calories (per label) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $30.00 for a 6-bar variety pack
Purchased from: Origen Cacao, online
Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate & Colombia Theme Week.
Today's Vegan White Chocolate with Nibs (bar) from Origen Cacao was "handcrafted in small batches" at the company's factory in San Roque, Antioquia (Colombia).
Most white chocolates are made with cocoa butter (the fat from the cocoa bean), but not the darker hued cocoa solids.*
Today's white chocolate bar did contain some cocoa solids--in the form of pieces of cacao beans (nibs).*
Aroma and flavor notes for today's white chocolate with cacao nibs bar included: oats, vanilla and faint cacao. This mild white oat milk chocolate was very low in bitterness and acidity. It reminded me of a vanilla oatmeal cookie with cocoa nibs; but it wasn't that sweet. (Thank you!). The flavor was more oatmeal porridge than cookie.
Texture: relatively smooth white oat milk chocolate interspersed with small, softly crunchy cacao nibs.
I liked the oat flavor more than I expected. I liked that I could taste the oats (in a less processed oat milk form), without any detectable oat straw/roughage.
I enjoyed trying this balanced, well-executed white chocolate. White craft chocolate bars today are diverse and interesting, and worth trying. They're a far cry from the overly sweet white chocolates of decades ago, some of which may have contained hydrogenated vegetable oils and no cacao at all.
I also appreciated the short list of quality and organic ingredients.
Ingredients: Organic cacao, organic cane sugar, organic cacao butter, oat milk, vanilla, sea salt
Allergen-related information: (No information found on packaging)
*A white chocolate (or any chocolate) is only featured on Chocolate Banquet if it contains at least some cocoa solids.
Cocoa butter, the main constituent of white chocolate, has a long history of being used by indigenous peoples Central and South America for culinary, ceremonial, medicinal (e.g. skin balms) purposes. It's used in the U.S. in the manufacturing of chocolates and white chocolates and confections, as well as vegan butters, and skin care products (e.g. in lotions, creams, lip balms).
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