Friday, August 21, 2009

Go NuGO

Recently I've been trying little things here and there to go green.So I thought to myself, self, why not go organic? My first step is a little one and it obviously involves chocolate. Duh.

I've picked up a NuGo Organic Double Dark Chocolate Bar which is actually vegan as well. It says it's made with real dark chocolate. Usually with chocolate granola or protein bars the chocolate {spoiler alert!} isn't real chocolate. It's chocolate flavored vegetable fat. Now I will eat a lot of things if they are covered in chocolate. But vegetable fat... not so much. So this is actual dark chocolate and it's actually quite tasty.

The bar itself is quite appealing, covered entirely in chocolate - and it smells even better. The soy crisps in the middle are delightfully crunchy but not as crispy as I would have expected. The chocolate is delish.

This one is hard to rate because it's not exactly what you would pick up for a chocolate emergency. It's more of a healthy chocolate snack. So on the Healthy Chocolate Snack scale it earns a 10. Eat this instead of something out of the vending machine next time.
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  1. NuGo NutritionAugust 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM

    Anne,
    We are so glad you understand our message! We are the only nutrition bar company to enrobe our bars in REAL milk and dark chocolates rather than using chocolate flavored vegetable fats. We have recently started a campaign to make people aware of these differences. You can learn more about this at thetruthabouthrealchocolate.com we have also started to petition the FDA for a true identity for REAL Dark Chocolate. Right now there is not one and we believe there should be!! This way companies could not mislabel DARK CHOCOLATE.

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  2. AnneAugust 27, 2009 at 11:13 AM

    Are you kidding?! There should absolutely be a petition for REAL chocolate. That's a great idea. I will be an ambassador for your campaign. I've also picked up a few other varieties of your bars (all covered in REAL chocolate of course), and I can't wait to try them. Thanks for commenting! :)

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