Green & Black's Organic Butterscotch Milk Chocolate 37% Cocoa — TREAT
Munch or Dump rates Green & Black's Organic Butterscotch Milk Chocolate 37% Cocoa by Green & Black's TREAT — score 45/90.
Simple, recognizable chocolate-bar ingredients, but sugar leads the list and it's an indulgence, not a health food.
Why this verdict
- Sugar is the #1 ingredient, ahead of milk and cocoa
- Three sweetener sources stacked: cane sugar, glucose syrup, molasses
- Indulgent fat/sugar load but the ingredients themselves are simple and real
- Added palm oil in the butterscotch for cheap fat and texture
Ingredients (11)
- Raw cane sugar (concerning) — The #1 ingredient by weight; spikes blood sugar and drives the calorie load. Organic doesn't change how it hits your body.
- Whole Milk Powder (safe) — Dried milk for creaminess; a normal dairy ingredient.
- Cocoa Mass (safe) — The cocoa solids that make it real dark chocolate; source of flavanols and the bitterness behind the 70% claim.
- Cocoa Butter (safe) — Pure cocoa fat that gives the melt and mouthfeel; calorie-dense but a natural part of chocolate.
- glucose syrup (moderate) — A second refined sweetener used for the caramel character; fast-absorbing sugar with no nutritional value.
- Palm Oil (moderate) — Refined oil added for mouthfeel; high in saturated fat with no whole-food benefit.
- Butter (from milk) (moderate) — Real butter, but adds more saturated fat to an already rich bar.
- molasses (moderate) — Second added sweetener; trace minerals but still sugar.
- natural flavouring (moderate) — Unspecified natural flavoring carrying the caramel note; not artificial but vague.
- Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin) (safe) — A standard, benign emulsifier used in nearly all chocolate to keep it smooth.
- Vanilla Extract (safe) — Real vanilla extract rather than synthetic vanillin; a small quality plus.
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