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Paste the bar's ingredients. We check whether cacao comes first, un-split the sugar brands hide across several names, and flag alkali-processing, trans fats and dairy. So you can tell real chocolate from sweetened cocoa.
We read the ingredient list of every chocolate this brand sells and scored each one against the Throne Standard, the same rubric behind our food ratings. Only whole-plant ingredients count as natural. The headline score below is the average across the full range.
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