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Nestlé Creates Dark Chocolate with No Added Sugar

The first 70% dark chocolate is made entirely from the cocoa fruit and nothing else.

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By: Sean Moloughney

Editor, Nutraceuticals World

Nestlé said it has created a unique chocolate made entirely from the cocoa fruit, using the beans and pulp as the only ingredients and therefore not adding any refined sugar.
 
The company plans to introduce the first product in Japan in the autumn of this year through its KitKat Chocolatory. Further products in other countries will follow next year, through some of Nestlé’s most popular confectionery brands.
 
Nestlé has developed a natural approach, which allows it to extract the pulp and use it in chocolate with no compromise on taste, texture, and quality, the company said.
 
Until now chocolate has been made with the addition of refined sugars. This patented innovation delivers a chocolate using only one ingredient: the cocoa fruit.
 
“We’re proud to bring chocolate lovers a new chocolate made entirely from the cocoa fruit without adding refined sugar,” said Patrice Bula, head of strategic business units, Marketing and Sales at Nestlé. “This is a real innovation which uses the natural sweetness of the cocoa pulp to provide a pure, novel chocolate experience.”
 
The cocoa fruit contains cocoa beans and cocoa pulp. The pulp surrounds the beans; it is soft, sweet, and white in color. Some of the pulp is used in the fermentation of the cocoa beans after they are harvested, but a significant proportion is usually removed and the value is lost. Until now it has not been used as an ingredient to naturally sweeten chocolate.
 
With its announcement, Nestlé said it reaffirms its leadership in the confectionery category by driving innovation and creating new, natural and exciting products. Nestlé was the first to bring Ruby chocolate to market in 2018 with KitKat, first in Japan and then across Europe.

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