According to their mission statement, sweetriot's goal is to "create a more just and celebrated multicultural world for our next generation." A fine mission, to be sure, but what they actually do is sell a line of chocolate covered cacao nibs. Appropriately named "peaces", all of their products are all-natural, gmo-free, dairy-free, kosher, gluten-free and feature only fair trade chocolate. In addition to carrying a social cause, they also taste great. The nibs come in three primary flavors, divided and named by the cacao content of the chocolate that enrobes the nibs. Flavor 50 is a mild dark chocolate and almost similar in flavor to milk chocolate, though it is dairy-free. Flavor 65 is a classic dark chocolate and flavor 70 (pictured) is extra dark and boosted with a bit of espresso.
My favorite way to eat them is to mix the three different peace mixes - 50, 65 and 70 - together. The sweeter 50 takes the edge off the dark 70, while leaving a nice espresso taste. Basically, they all just get along - and there's no need to overthink it because it tastes so good.
If you want to give them a taste, the Happy holly-days pack and Hanukah packs deliver one tin of each flavor and also make great little gifts. You can also try the newest flavor, 70cinn, which is a limited edition flavor released just for the holidays.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-06-2006 @ 11:49AM
Keith said...
Oh, my bad... it's 12 ounces. Still pricy though.
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12-06-2006 @ 11:50AM
Keith said...
Sheesh! $48.00 for 2 ounces! I'd love to try these but that's outrageous.
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12-06-2006 @ 1:20PM
Becki said...
That's the price of self-righteous multi-culturalist b.s.
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12-06-2006 @ 3:22PM
bdw said...
Tastes like...liberal guilt. Ptooie.
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12-06-2006 @ 3:58PM
Alison said...
Do you know if it is possible to puchase these in single packs? It might be fun to try them (or give one as a gift to my chocolate loving brother), but there's no way I'm going to buy 12 tins without having actually tried them.
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12-06-2006 @ 10:15PM
Devi said...
The holiday and Hanukah packs have one pack of each and I was going to get myself the Hanukah one but with shipping and handling, it'd be much cheaper to get these from Whole Foods. I've been tempted to pick up a pack but they are pricy. But they have inspired me to get myself some good chocolate for Hanukah. And not share. I'm not in *that* festive of a mood :)
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