The incredibly short Ingredient list
"The incredibly short Ingredient list shines: deep cacao flavor, smooth cocoa butter and a background of warm, soft vanilla. This is an exceptional chocolate."
Organic Total Eclipse Dark Chocolate, 92% cacao
Unit of Measure
Price:
$39.60
Grown by small farmer co-ops
Our worker-owned, solar-generating roastery
At our Massachusetts HQ, our team batch-roasts coffee daily under a 1,418 panel solar array, bringing out the best flavors of each harvest. At the lighter end of the roast spectrum, we accentuate the unique fruity and floral notes within the beans. As the roast length increases, the natural sugars in the coffee beans caramelize and darken to elicit a richer body. Our darkest roasts fully express the beansβ natural oils, yielding subtle smokiness and flavors akin to dark chocolate. At every level, our expert team creates a smooth, clean, and balanced cup with reliable consistency from batch to batch.
Overall rating: 4.867424 / 5 from 264 reviews.
AI Generated Review Summary
This 92% cacao dark chocolate bar from Togo is praised for its high quality, smooth texture, and excellent flavor. Customers appreciate its fair trade attributes and find it to be a great value for its price. It is also noted for being a suitable treat for cold weather due to its low sugar content.
Summary topics
- Value for Money (5%): It was highlighted by customers that the price of the product is great, fair, and reasonable.
- Product Quality (8%): Customers expressed satisfaction with the high quality of the chocolate, which was mentioned multiple times in the reviews.
- Chocolate Texture (5%): Customers appreciated the smooth texture of the dark chocolate bar, which was mentioned in multiple reviews.
- Cold Weather Treat (5%): It was highlighted by customers that this treat is a great cold weather treat and has very little sugar.
- Chocolate Flavor (30%): A substantial number of customers stated that the flavor of the product is excellent and great. (100% agreement)
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Review highlights
- "Excellent flavor and texture, good clean ingredients." —
- "Great products, good prices, outstanding website!" —
- "This bar is smooth and creamy with a wonderful dark chocolate taste." —
Reviews
Not chocolate taste
"Since the bar doesn’t taste like chocolate I melted the bar along with another one. I added Nestlie semi sweet chocolate and some raw honey from the Andes mountains. Tastes better now."
Dreamy dark
"I love the 92 percent chocolate. It is perfectly bitter and smooth, with just enough sweet to make it a treat. so satisfying."
Best of dark chocolate
"I have been a dark chocolate consumer for decades. I've enjoyed several different excellent brands. This Equal Exchange is top quality. Purity of ingedients and elegance in manufacturing delivers excellence in each bar."
Total Eclipse Bars
"I really love these bars! However, I paid extra for cooling packs for shipping. Despite this all bars were completely melted when they arrived on my doorstep as well as the cooling packs. So beware of ordering in the summer time. I am eating them anyway but they taste a little different after being completely melted."
Best High-cacao Chocolate Bar EVER.
"Best High-cacao Chocolate Bar EVER. That is all."
High Quality at Reasonable Price
"The 92% cacao bar has a distinct and delicious creaminess that elevates the enjoyment of an already delightful chocolate."
Great Deal!
"The chocolate is very taste and using the discount code that Equal Exchange provided in their email, I bought two boxes (24 bars) for $72. 86 including shipping. This averages $3. 02/bar which is more than a dollar less than I pay for similar size (2. 8 oz) dark choclate bars at Giant Eagle."
"Best chocolate ever"
Excellent chocolate
"I love this chocolate. I gave it four stars due to its having sugar as an ingredient. I bought it due to its cocoa content, 92% thinking it would have no sugar. However, I just bought two more boxes of twelve, so obviously it's delicious. The other thing I don't like is that it takes forever for it to be mailed. . . . . . I'm sure I will be told it's because I live in Alaska, and that shipping ground keeps the shipping costs down, but honestly I've ordered many things online, with either free, of minor shipping costs. I'm sure I will keep ordering it anyway. Again, it is really good."
Q&A
- I think that there are a lot of people that are primarily looking for a low sugar bar.. Many of them are concerned about the sugar substitutes and do not feel well after eating the sugar substitutes.. I think that there are very few that are actually opposed to sunflower lecithin , Inulin or coconut milk powder. You need to check this out and do some research on what they are wanting to avoid.
- Hi William, our Total Eclipse chocolate bar contains a modest amount of organic raw cane sugar for sweetness to balance the high cacao content of this bar. It sounds like you are concerned about sugar substitutes and other additives, and we do not have any of the ingredients you mentioned in our bars, with the exception of the Coconut Milk Chocolate bar which does have coconut palm sugar. Many of our bars also feature sucanat, which is a whole cane sugar, less refined, that maintains more of the minerals and fiber from the sugar cane plant. Thank you for your comment.
- I like the low sugar in this bar but it is hard to chew. Since I am buying it because of the low amount of sugar as many other people are I am wondering if you can add some more lecithin or a little more coco butter so it is not so hard and brittle ? Maybe you could come out with a new bar called low sugar that has 70 % cocoa but is as low in sugar as this 92% bar.
- Hi William, thanks for taking the time to ask about the Total Eclipse bar recipe. We do not use any soy lecithin in any of our chocolates and don't have any plans to. I'll pass along your suggestion of a lower sugar bar with a different cacao content or more cocoa butter to our chocolate team. Thank you for your support!
- I have three questions: - What is the ratio of Cocoa liquor to cocoa butter in this product? - What is the flavanol content per serving? - Lead/Cadmium/Heavy metal content?
- Hi Deepika, Our exact recipe ratio is proprietary, but we can tell you that the additional organic cocoa butter ingredient in our Organic 92% Total Eclipse is in the 15-25% range. We do not test for flavanols, so we do not have any data to share at this time. As you may be aware, the matter of heavy metals in chocolate has been a topic for several years and Equal Exchange has worked with our partners to best navigate this in a way that allows us to sell safe products to our customers and continue to be true to supporting our farmer partners. In 2019, Equal Exchange took the step of opting into an agreement for heavy metals in chocolate products sold in California. The levels set in the agreement for cadmium and lead are more in line with the international standards Equal Exchange has been using prior to any standards in the US. As part of this agreement, we are working diligently to be in compliance with the agreement and sell products into California that are under these new limits. Beyond these new limits, the agreement has created a pool of money to invest in research to address this issue more holistically by giving us a better understanding of the avenues through which heavy metals end up in cocoa beans, and how this can be mitigated. While we believe our products have always been safe, we made this decision to more easily sell our products into California, and we see this as a positive step forward with the creation of wider resources. We hope that the industry will not only spend money to better understand the issue but also support the producers who will face the major burden of working on ways to mitigate this issue caused on the farm through the natural uptake of these minerals into cacao beans. At this time, we do not give out test results since we know that one test result is only one small snapshot in time and based on a lot of variability due to standard deviation in test results, variability in cocoa as an agricultural crop including by region and age of tree and variability in consumption patterns. As part of this California agreement that we entered, we are required to be below certain levels, or put a warning on our labels if we cannot meet these levels, which are different depending on the type of product and the % of cacao.
- Is the Total Eclipse dark chocolate alkalized/Dutch processed?
- Hi Deepika, None of our chocolate bars use alkalized/Dutched cocoa. If you are looking to avoid Dutched/alkalized cocoa, you'll just want to avoid our hot cocoas and baking cocoa.
- Is the product non-GMO ?
- Yes. GMO's are not allowed in Organic products. So any and all products listed on our site as Organic are non-GMO by default.