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Thread #107613   Message #2233574
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
10-Jan-08 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Confusing Labels
Subject: RE: BS: Confusing Labels
Got one today as a gift that could mislead-

Truffles, French, Original dusted with cocoa powder. They look very chocolaty and taste of chocolate, but-
Careful reading of the Nutrition Facts (required in Canada) shows that the product is 30% Fat, of which 88% is saturates.
This bothered me, since the average chocolate bar (Cadbury, Hershey, Lindt, etc.) is 20% or less fat.
The Ingredients label tells the tale- "partially hydrogenated copra oil- Copra is partially dried coconut. It also has wheat dextrose and whey powder. This means that the cocoa content, not listed by % or amount, is low.

Checking a Lindt milk chocolate bar, it has NO copra. Nutrition Facts show 14% Fat (half that of the truffles) and only 29% is Saturates.
(Hershey and Cadbury are similar; also Callebaut unless one gets into their high cocoa content chocolates)

The truffles are very smooth, and soft. The chocolate dusting really gives them a chocolate taste.