Organic Total Eclipse Dark Chocolate, 92% cacao

Name: Organic Total Eclipse Dark Chocolate, 92% cacao
Brand: Equal Exchange
SKU: 18210
Price: 39.6 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (251 reviews)

Unit of Measure

12 Pack

$39.60

SKU: 18210 ISBN: 745998990680

Ehossou Kodjo preparing to ferment his cacao beans in a pile under banana leaves in Badou, Togo

Grown by small farmer co-ops

This chocolate bar is made from organic cacao from Togo, Dominican Republic and Peru, organic sugar from Paraguay, and organic vanilla from Madagascar, all grown by small farmer co-ops. When farmers organize into co-ops they gain crucial market access, run their business democratically, and decide together how to invest in their communities. Since 2018, we’ve partnered with SCOOPS IKPA, in Badou, Togo. “IKPA” means “strength” in the Akposso language, a fitting name for this co-operative, which has a solid forward-looking mission. Their vision for 2030 is to grow crops organically in the region in order to benefit the health of the whole community.

Four of our coffee team in front of the roasting machine

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 beans’ 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: 4.8937006 / 5 from 254 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%
Product Quality: 8%
Chocolate Texture: 5%
Cold Weather Treat: 5%
Chocolate Flavor: 30%

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Review highlights

"Excellent flavor and texture, good clean ingredients." — Ingrid W.
"Great products, good prices, outstanding website!" — Shelburne W.
"This bar is smooth and creamy with a wonderful dark chocolate taste." — Eric H.

Reviews

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."

— Thomas S. (5/5)

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."

— Sharon H. (4/5)

No other chocolate for my family

"The fact that this company is ethical and benefits the farmers is my number one reason for using Equal Exchange. Transparency is critical in a time of false information, greed and big corporations taking advantage of us. Next is knowing what goes into the products. And of course the product is outstanding. Thank you."

— Heather D. (5/5)

Very little sugar

"While I love dark chocolate this 92% will take some getting used to. I am eating it with dried cranberries"

— Martha S. (3/5)

I love that this product

"I love that this product only has a few ingredients, low in sugar. very smooth tasting. Very good product. The price in bulk is reasonable. Would like to see this is more stores."

— John C. (5/5)

Best chocolate ever! I live

"Best chocolate ever! I live that it is organic and fair trade and healthy since it has a high cacao content."

— Grace R. (5/5)

Great Dark Chocolate Bars

"My favorite chocolate bar at 92% cacao. . . yes it is a bit of an acquired taste - but worth the effort. Enjoy - thanks for the great chocolate."

— James H. (5/5)

Great extra dark chicolate

"I added this to another order for coffee on behalf of a friend. I would have been happy to share the box of them but he wanted them all!"

— Jennifer S. (5/5)

Simply delicious chocolate.

"I have bought Equal Exchange chocolate before and thought I should invest in a couple of boxes so that I can have it more regularly. It's top quality and flavor."

— Ian M. (5/5)

Good great organically made

"Great health and good taste as well"

— None N. (5/5)

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.