Dark chocolate

Recommended chocolates, by Consumer Reports

When it comes to chocolate, “price doesn’t guarantee excellence,” says Consumer Reports. But the very best are indeed expensive.

At least it might be healthy. Some research links eating dark chocolate to having lower blood pressure and other health benefits. Just don’t eat too much.

Here is the Consumer Reports’ selection of recommended chocolates. The maximum overall score is 100, and “Best Buy” models offer more value.


Chocolate bar

Milk chocolate

Dove Milk Chocolate

Overall score: 72

Trader Joe's 3-pack (mini bars)

Overall score: 72
“Best Buy”

Hershey's Symphony

Overall score: 66
“Best Buy”

Dark chocolate

Trader Joe's 72% Cacao 3-pack (mini bars)

Overall score: 92
“Best Buy”

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Boxed chocolate

Candinas 36-Piece Box

Overall score: 90
“Best Buy”

Fran's 36 pc Assorted Truffles Collection

Overall score: 88
“Best Buy”

Jacques Torres Jacques' Choice 50 Piece Box

Overall score: 88
“Best Buy”

Xocolatti The Original Collection 16 pcs

Overall score: 81
“Best Buy”

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Consumer Reports is an American magazine published monthly since 1936. It features reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory and survey research centre. The magazine accepts no advertising, pays for all the products it tests, and, as a not-for-profit organisation, has no shareholders. It also publishes cleaning and general buying guides. (Wikipedia.)

Source: Consumer Reports
Last checked on: 28 November 2017
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