Sweetriot Cacao Nibs - A Portable Way to Tame Your Sweet Tooth

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Jan 29th 2009 @ 11:59AM

I have always had something of a sweet tooth. At the age of two, I knew how to spell ice cream, foiling my parents' clever attempts to plan out treats for themselves for after I went to bed. As I got older, I was a fool for Jolly Ranchers, Sugar Daddies and Lik-M-Aid.

These days, the desire for sweet things remains, although I try to keep it in check for the sake of my dental health and waistline. However, I often find myself craving something sweet after lunch or dinner and if I'm not careful, those sugar yearnings can explode into some seriously unwise indulgences.

Thankfully, about six months ago, I discovered Sweetriot. These tiny, dark chocolate-cover cacao nibs satisfy my need for a sweet treat without blowing the calorie bank and for some unknown reason, I'm able to make a single 1-ounce tin last for weeks. There's something about the marginally sweet dark chocolate, coupled with the slightly bitter crunch of the nib that keeps my tastebuds happy.

If you're a chocolate lover who needs something tiny to keep your sugar cravings tame, I highly recommend these little guys.

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Tags: cacao nibs, CacaoNibs, dark chocolate, DarkChocolate, sweet tooth, sweetriot, SweetTooth

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1-29-2009 @12:51PM woostery said... I saw these recently and was tempted, but the vague "flavor ##" threw me off.

WHat flavor is Flavor 50? What about Flavor 65?

On their site (with some difficulty) I managed to find out probably what these things are:

http://www.sweetriot.com/cacaofun/health_facts.php

Flavor 50 and Flavor 65 have the same ingredients:

"cacao mass, sugar, cacao beans, cacao butter, soy lecithin, natural vanilla, glazing agent"

I presume the proportions differ so one would have to sample them to determine what the differences are.

Flavor 70 has an added ingredient: "natural coffee flavor" between vanilla and glazing agent.

So that settles that for me. Kinda.

Thanks
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1-29-2009 @1:20PM Pyrofish said... I would have thought those numbers are percentages indicating the type of dark chocolate. Is that not the case?
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1-29-2009 @2:12PM Stephie said... The flavors are explained in more detail on this page:
http://shop.sweetriot.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=65

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1-29-2009 @2:13PM woostery said... Pyrofish wrote "would have thought those numbers are percentages indicating the type of dark chocolate. "

In looking a bit more I see that the numbers (50, 65, and 70) appear to indicate the percentage of cacao solids in each variety.

So Flavor 50 is 50% cacao solids; Flavor 65 is 65% cacao solids; and 70 is 70% cacao solids.

... but Flavor 70 also adds coffee flavor.

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1-29-2009 @2:14PM Marisa McClellan said... I've always just stuck with the #65 variety, as those were the ones I initially got and enjoyed. I'll have to try out some of the other varieties, to see what the difference is.
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