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When I buy chocolate or any cocoa products, I always look for the UTZ certified logo or some linkage to another fair trade organisation. Cadbury didn't have any
by aussieguy1234 8y ago
When I buy chocolate or any cocoa products, I always look for the UTZ certified logo or some linkage to another fair trade organisation. Cadbury didn't have any of this so I buy other brands for ethical reasons. The chocolate is usually better anyway.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoCadbury chocolate always was pretty poor quality but it seems to have gone even further downhill since they became part of Kraft / Mondelez.
- rleigh 8y agoIt's gone from being OK-but-nothing-special to a brown-wax-cake-topping like Hershey's. Inedible and worthless. I've gone to more premium dark chocolate from a local company (Mackies) or Lindt. Costs more but it's worth it for actually tasting like chocolate and being made with proper ingredients.
- Freak_NL 8y agoThe UTZ certification process is an example of a consumer awareness tactic that worked: in the Netherlands the majority of products with chocolate in it carries that logo. It now makes more sense for the manufacturer to just get certified chocolate. But that worked because chocolate is very recognizable as an ingredient. Palm oil isn't, and it's in everything. Perhaps a similar certification process might help, but when you buy something that doesn't carry the logo you'll still have to check the ingredients list because often you have no idea if palm oil was used or not.
- raverbashing 8y agoReal chocolate should have 0% Palm oil, that's part of the problem
- toyg 8y ago> I buy other brands for ethical reasons. The chocolate is usually better anyway I'd find it honestly difficult to buy lower-quality chocolate than Cadbury's. No wonder you can't find it in most of Western Europe - only Brits tolerate it, mostly because they had little else "back then" (pre-EU accession).
- anothermouse 8y agoYou've never tried Hershey's then.