Archive for May, 2007

Mars abandons animal rennet plans

Masterfoods have scrapped plans to add animal rennet to Mars products after receiving over 6000 complaints from consumers. According to the BBC, Mars says it became “very clear, very quickly” that they had made a mistake. Unfortunately, it’s still not … Continue reading

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Posted by on 20 May 2007 at 06:05 PM in Chocolate News | Comments (7)

Etruscan Chocohotel Tagliatelle al Cacao

During my recent stay at the Chocohotel in Perugia, I spent quite a while in their fabulously well-stocked Chocostore, picking out numerous items to review for this site. This is the only item I came back with that had the … Continue reading

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Posted by on 17 May 2007 at 08:05 PM in Chocolate Reviews | Comments (9)

Hershey’s Whole Bean

Hershey’s Whole Bean is part of the Hershey’s Goodness range and positioned to promote the health benefits of chocolate. The packaging claims 7g of fibre per serving and “40% less sugar than the leading milk chocolate”. That’s a fact I … Continue reading

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Posted by on 16 May 2007 at 08:05 PM in Chocolate Reviews | Comments (4)

Mars no longer suitable for vegetarians

Many of Mars UK’s biggest selling chocolate products are no longer suitable for vegetarians from this month because Masterfoods has inexplicably decided to start using animal rennet in its chocolate. The affected products include: Mars Bar Snickers Twix Maltesers Bounty … Continue reading

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Posted by on 16 May 2007 at 12:05 PM in Chocolate News | Comments (8)

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