A new type of Ritter-Sport cannot be called chocolate - and is therefore now under a completely different name on the supermarket shelves.
A new Ritter Sport variety is currently causing a stir.
The “Cacao y Nada” variety cannot officially be called chocolate.
The reason for this is a missing ingredient - and the provisions of the German Cocoa Ordinance.
Munich - white chocolate, dark chocolate, nuts - or is it the classic whole milk?
As for
chocolate
, tastes are definitely different.
It gets strange, however, when the favorite
chocolate
is not allowed to be called
“
chocolate
” - as is currently the case with a
new product from the Ritter Sport brand
.
Specifically, it is about the
variety "Cacao y Nada"
- translated it means something like "cocoa and nothing".
Ritter Sport: The new variety must not be called chocolate - sweetness comes from special fruit
The
problem
lies in this “nothing”
.
Since the
square chocolate bar
to
one hundred percent of cocoa
is and is
not a sugar
is included, it may not as
chocolate
are called.
Because in order to be considered "real" chocolate, the product must be made from
ingredients such as cocoa mass, cocoa powder, cocoa butter and sugar
- this is what the German cocoa regulation says.
This legal regulation - also
KakaoV
- regulates
ingredients
and the
labeling of cocoa and chocolate
products in Germany
.
Since the
Ritter Sport variety “Cacao y Nada”
now works without sugar, according to the regulations, it has to be denied the name “Chocolate”.
The product is
sweetened
with
cocoa juice
.
According to
Ritter Sport
This is also based on the idea of
sustainability
.
When
chocolate making
only normally
cocoa bean
used.
For the new variety, however, the pulp of the
cocoa pod will also be
used to filter the juice from it.
The product has already been approved as a food in the EU for a year - but only under the label “
cocoa pod
”.
Chocolate dispute in the video: Ritter Sport already caused a stir for another reason
Ritter Sport: Fuss about a new variety that cannot be called chocolate - "This is the new reality"
Ritter Sport boss Andreas Ronken
finds the regulation absurd.
“Our food law has to keep pace with innovations of this kind.
If sausage can be made from peas,
chocolate doesn't need sugar either
.
Wake up!
This is the new reality, ”quotes the
picture
.
The
Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) also
took a position.
There you see things differently.
“On the one hand, manufacturers have to adhere to the applicable food law.
On the other hand, the term
chocolate
could
confuse or deceive some consumers because they
expect
certain
ingredients
.
We are therefore always in favor of products being declared with maximum clarity for the
consumer
”, according to the headquarters, according to the
picture
.
But regardless of whether it is
chocolate or “cocoa fruit bar”
- in the end, many consumers are less concerned with the name than with the taste.
If this
convinces
with
“Cacao y Nada”
on the shelves of Lidl, Kaufland, Edeka or other supermarkets, you will hardly be
stopped
by the missing “
Chocolate
”
imprint
.
(
nema
)
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