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September 30, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Ritter Sport Cacao Selection: 61% Cacao Dark Chocolate – Tasty Dark Chocolate

Chocolate

I’ve found Ritter Sport to be a bit hit or miss of late, but this one — part of their “Cacao Selection” line — contains a scant three ingredients, so I figured that would be pretty hard to mess up.

And yeah, it’s quite tasty. They did not mess it up.

The chocolate has a satisfying snap, a nice creamy melt, and a good amount of sweetness. The taste is a bit more muted than you might expect, however, with absolutely no bitterness and a surprisingly subtle flavour that takes a couple of squares to really appreciate. I enjoy the punchy flavour you get from more intense varieties of dark chocolate, so I missed that here, but it’s certainly tasty enough. It reminded me a lot of Lindt dark chocolate, so if you’ve ever had that, then you have a good idea of what to expect here.

Other than that… It’s good, I don’t know. It’s hard to review plain dark chocolate unless you’re one of those “notes of tobacco, dried figs, and cherries” guys (yes, those people exist for chocolate; they’re not just insufferable about wine), and I’m not one of those guys. So I’ll just say that this was good but not great and leave it at that.

Manufactured by: Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG
Nutritional info (10 pieces, 40 grams): 240 calories, 18 grams of fat (1 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 1 mg of sodium, 18 grams of carbohydrates, 2 gram of fibre, 15 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter.

June 14, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Ritter Sport: Butter Biscuit and Chocolate Creme – Tasty Cookie, Mediocre Chocolate

Chocolate

I recently reviewed the coconut variety of Ritter Sport, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I was under the impression that Ritter Sport had gone downhill, but eating that made me question myself. Maybe I’m wrong about Ritter Sport, and by extension, my entire life??

I figured I should probably try a different flavour to figure out what’s what.

Thankfully, it looks like my existential panic can stop (for now), because the Butter Biscuit and Chocolate Creme variety was okay at best.

The main issue is the chocolate itself. I noted in the coconut review that the chocolate flavour was a bit too mild, and that issue is even worse here. The flavour is all generic sweetness. It’s not outright unpleasant, but it’s nothing anyone is going to get too excited about.

The cookie is nice. It’s got a good amount of crunch and a decent buttery flavour. But it doesn’t go all the way to the edges of the bar. Which means that while the middle pieces — which feature cookie all the way through — have a good balance of creamy and crunchy, the edge pieces are a bit overwhelmed by the middling chocolate.

Manufactured by: Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG
Nutritional info (6 pieces, 38 grams): 210 calories, 13 grams of fat (8 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg cholesterol, 50 mg of sodium, 22 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 18 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: sugar, palm fat, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, wheat flour, lactose, whole milk powder (6%), skim milk powder, cream powder, butter fat, butter (1%), soy lecithin, wheat starch, glucose-fructose, salt, whey powder.

May 18, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Ritter Sport: Coconut – A Tasty Combo of Coconut and Chocolate

Candy Bars, Chocolate

I was under the impression that Ritter Sport had gone downhill; the last couple I’ve had have been fairly mediocre, so I had mostly written them off. But this one was quite tasty! So there’s my entire world-view, shaken to its very core.

I will admit that I’m a sucker for the chocolate/coconut combo; Bounty would easily be in my top five favourite candy bars. So maybe I’m just going easy on this one because the combination is so inherently delightful.

Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed this. It’s basically like Bounty, but with a higher chocolate to coconut ratio. Oddly, the chocolate flavour isn’t quite as pronounced as you’d think it would be; it has a bit of a generic sweetness, and I wish it packed a more chocolatey punch.

That’s pretty much my only real complaint here. Otherwise, the chocolate is nice and creamy, and there’s a good balance of coconut flavour along with a mild crispiness from the flakes. I don’t know that I’d pick this over a Bounty, but then the increased amount of chocolate makes it feel fairly distinct.

Manufactured by: Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG
Nutritional info (6 pieces, 38 grams): 220 calories, 15 grams of fat (9 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg cholesterol, 25 mg of sodium, 20 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 19 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugar, palm fat, cocoa butter, grated coconut (9%), whole milk powder, cocoa mass, skim milk powder, lactose, butter fat, coconut milk (1%), glucose syrup, soy lecithin, pea protein, concentrated lemon juice.