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Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate

Dark Cooking Chocolate

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Ingredients · 5

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Nutrition facts

NutrientPer 100gPer serving
Calories538 kcal269 kcal
Fat31.5 g15.8 g
Saturated fat19.2 g9.6 g
Carbohydrates54.3 g27.1 g
Sugars43.7 g21.9 g
Fiber4.4 g2.2 g
Protein7.2 g3.6 g
Sodium0.02 g0.01 g
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Common questions

Is Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate healthy?

Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate scores 83/100 on Tallow — our clean band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. Per serving it carries 2g fiber, 4g protein and 22g sugar. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate?

Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate lists 5 ingredients, starting with Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Milk Fat, Cocoa Butter and Soya Lecithins. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

How many calories are in Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate?

269 kcal per serving, or 538 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

Does Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate?

Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate compare to other chocolate?

At 83/100 Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate sits in our top band, among the better chocolate we have scored. A higher-scoring option in chocolate is Hu Organic Hazelnut Butter + Hazelnut Crunch Milk Chocolate at 100/100.

Is Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate organic?

Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate is not certified organic in our data.

Has Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate been lab tested?

Not yet. No independent lab has published results for Tesco Dark Cooking Chocolate, so its score is based on its ingredient list, processing and packaging alone.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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