Bournville Cranberry Dark Chocolate — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates Bournville Cranberry Dark Chocolate by Cadbury Bournville TREAT — score 45/90.

Real dark chocolate with cranberries and almonds, but sugar is the #1 ingredient and the cranberries are sugar-added.

Why this verdict

• Sugar is the first ingredient, ahead of cocoa solids
• Cranberries are pre-sweetened, adding a second sugar source
• Contains 'Nature Identical' (synthetic) flavours despite a natural image
• Still a simple, recognizable base - real cocoa, almonds, cranberries

Ingredients (8)

• Sugar (moderate) — Added refined sugar; spikes blood sugar and turns a milky base into a dessert.
• Cocoa Solids (safe) — The actual chocolate, carrying some flavanol antioxidants. The one genuinely good part.
• Dried Sweetened Cranberries (moderate) — Real fruit but sugar-added, so it's a second sweetener more than a health boost.
• Cocoa Butter (safe) — Natural fat from the cocoa bean; a clean ingredient.
• Almonds (safe) — Real nuts, good fats and protein.
• Milk Solids (safe) — Curdled dairy solids — the protein, fat, and calcium of milk. Whole-food base with no processing tricks.
• Emulsifiers (442, 476) (moderate) — Ammonium phosphatide and PGPR; common cocoa emulsifiers, low concern but processing markers.
• Flavours (natural and nature-identical) (moderate) — Nature-identical means lab-synthesized flavour compounds, not truly natural.

Healthier alternatives

• Lindt Excellence 99% Cacao Dark Chocolate