When Mercadona launches any of its new products, its loyal audience usually receives them with great joy, at the very least, to try them. What does not always happen is that these new developments take hold. without fissures among the clientele and take them in pairs for their virtues.
One of the latest launches from the Juan Roig chain is a healthy product if there is one, especially if you take into account its profile as sweet and as whim.
It is also an ideal product to deal with copious meals (and abundant desserts nougat makers) coming up in the next six weeks. With one of these foods under your arm you can combine pleasure and a healthy life, but with one important point.
For some time now, chocolate bars have gone from being simple children’s entertainment full of sugar to being delicious ways to obtain proteins and invigorating energy without the need for high doses of sugar.
This is the case of chocolate bars with high percentages of cocoa, a food antioxidant and with other benefits, such as its high energy content, its probiotic richness, its contribution to lowering blood pressure and improving cholesterol and blood sugar.
a lot of cocoa
Of course, cocoa must be present in high doses: no tablets full of sugar and with only 53% cocoa, or even less. In the case of this product that is triumphing in the Valencian supermarket chain, the cocoa is found in doses higher than the 80%that minimum amount of cocoa recommended that we should buy to get rid of our chocolate craving, as recommended by experts like Beatriz Robles.
Its about Dark chocolate 85% Hacendado cocoaat 1.05 euros per 100 gram tablet, and which is a very successful snack among the chain’s clientele judging by its popularity on networks.
This product has among its ingredients cocoa paste, sugar, cocoa butter, defatted cocoa powder, emulsifier and aroma, so that, although it has added sugars, it retains a large part of the benefits that are associated with cocoa. It is healthy, yes, but always without displacing other foods and only if we consume it Moderately and within a healthy diet.
Each tablet contains almost 600 calories (not few), largely due to the fat of the cocoa itself, but also includes 14 grams of sugar and 12 of protein, in addition to 14 grams of Dietary fiber.
This tablet begins to compete directly with other well-known ones such as Chocolates Worth (company that manufactures numerous products for Mercadona, such as chocolates) with high percentages of cocoa.
IBILI Chocolate Bar Mold, Stainless Steel, brown, 18.5 x 9.5 x 2 cm
*Some prices may have changed since the last review
In this case, the tablet in question is manufactured by the Portuguese company Imperialspecialized in this type of products.
Photos | Joana Costa
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