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Adora does have a lot of appeal when compared to other sources of calcium, as each piece of chocolate contains about 30 calories. The company released a helpful list to drive home both their point and the desireability of their product. I have expanded the list here to illustrate, aside from milk, the amount of food you would have to eat each day to reach the recommended amount of calcium. Each one of the following contains approximate 1000mg calcium:
- 14 cups cooked broccoli
- 80 ounces of vegetable juice
- 6 cups soybeans
- 37 figs
- 3.5 cups almonds
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12-08-2005 @8:12PM cybele said... That's so weird that you blogged about this! I just picked some of these up last weekend when I was up in Fairfield, CA at their factory store. I picked up the dark chocolate ones.
Here's what I have to say about them: grainy. Not like sandy grainy, like that stuff that dentists use to polish your teeth grainy. If you just let it dissolve instead of chewing it feels, um, dusty. Definitely not something I'd eat like it was "candy" but for a vitamin it's very tasty.
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12-08-2005 @9:14PM Heidi said... Haven't tried these yet, but regularly use other brands. I have a sensitive stomach to many supplements, including calcium, so the chews are helpful. Trader Joes makes both a fruit and a chocolate version, and Viactiv makes choc, caramel, and mint choc, and Target makes a knock-off of all the Viactivs. They are all 20 calories, and 500 calcium as well.
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12-11-2005 @4:53AM Edward said... Adora Chocolate is nothing like Viactiv or the others mentioned by Heidi. Those are all great products but this is the next generation. Rather than a large pharmaceutical company trying to make a calcium supplement taste good, we are a 126 year old chocolate company that added calcium. You won't believe the difference...
Although our online sampling program is being reworked due to extremely high requests, I can get a free sample to you if you email me by Dec 15 with: SlashFood Blogger in the subject....email me at adoraCalcium@yahoo.com
Adora Calcium - Marketing Manager
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12-09-2005 @12:13PM Edward said... Adora Chocolate is nothing like Viactiv or the others mentioned by Heidi. Those are all great products but this is the next generation. Rather than a large pharmaceutical company trying to make a calcium supplement taste good, we are a 126 year old chocolate company that added calcium. You won't believe the difference...
Although our online sampling program is being reworked due to extremely high requests, I can get a free sample to you if you email me by Dec 15 with: SlashFood Blogger in the subject....email me at adoraCalcium@yahoo.com
Adora Calcium - Marketing Manager
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12-13-2005 @7:51AM rob said... Cybele--the original formulation was somewhat grainy. We agree with you, and we went to work. I think you will find the lastest formulations (released in October--and made in our Connecticut factory) smooth and tasty. Please email and we will send you a free sample of the lastestt dark for your review. We would love to get your opinion on the new formulation.
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