This is the tastiest milk chocolate and hazelnut bar from the supermarket
The FavorFlav tasting panel is ready. Taste buds alert, stomachs rumbling, ready to taste private-label milk chocolate and hazelnut bars. Because chocolate, yummm, who doesn’t like it?
Do you just grab any bar from the shelf, because chocolate is chocolate? Or do you have a clear preference for a brand or type? When we unwrap the bars to photograph them, the differences immediately stand out. The color, for starters: one bar is much paler than the other. One bar is practically bursting out of its wrapper with hazelnuts, while in other bars we can barely see any nut pieces. This looks promising!
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- Lidl
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- Dekamarkt en Dirk
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- Jumbo
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- Albert Heijn
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- Aldi
With a cup of tea
We taste private-label milk chocolate bars with hazelnuts. A cup of tea on the side, and let’s taste. Aldi’s bar contains whole hazelnuts; there’s hardly any room left for the chocolate. That works out well, because we find the nuts much tastier than the chocolate: even for milk chocolate, it is extremely sweet and slightly reminiscent of a Kinder Bueno or Nutella.
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- Lidl, 100 gram, 0,47 euro. Goedkoopste reep uit de test, en dat proef je. Zitten hier überhaupt wel noten in? De chocolade is te zoet, en smaakt naar goedkope smeltchocolade.
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- Dekamarkt en Dirk, 100 gram, 1,38 euro. Favoriet! Lekkere stukjes noot, de chocolade is precies zoet genoeg. Alles in balans, perfect reepje.
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- Jumbo, 200 gram, 1,97 euro. Lijkt qua uiterlijk op de reep van Deka/Dirk, maar de nootjes in deze reep lijken wel geroosterd. Doet om een of andere reden aan een KitKat denken (en dat is niet goed).
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- Albert Heijn, 200 gram, 1,49 euro. Lekkere jongen, deze. Grote stukjes noot en grote brokken chocolade. Nipte nummer twee, vooral door de grote noten.
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- Aldi, 100 gram, 0,79 euro. Hele grote stukken hazelnoot, maar plakkerige, te zoete chocolade. ‘Nutella-achtig, maar dan zoeter.’
Finely chopped
The second bar comes from Dekamarkt & Dirk van den Broek; they sell the same bar. The chocolate is much darker in color, and we also encounter a deeper, darker chocolate flavor—delicious. ‘The nuts are finely chopped; they taste a bit like nougatine,’ says Lauretta. Nice bar.
Bar 3, from Jumbo, looks exactly like number 2, but the taste is completely different: ‘I taste KitKat,’ says Sabina. So that’s not the tastiest chocolate. Lidl’s chocolate is a disappointment: hardly a nut in sight because they are chopped so small, and the chocolate seems more like a cocoa-flavored confectionery product. Fortunately, we then taste Albert Heijn’s: large chunks, big pieces of nut and creamy milk chocolate.
The winner: crunchy nuts
We taste all those squares again, and then we have a winner: chocolate bar number 2 is our favorite. Crunchy pieces of nut and a deep chocolate flavor. We see on the packaging that this chocolate is both Fairtrade and carries the Rainforest Alliance seal: double points.
The worst? Without a doubt: Lidl’s chocolate. You wouldn’t want to give that bar to anyone as a gift, and it’s even too disgusting for unpleasant guests. Sorry Lidl, you know we love you, but not the chocolate bar with hazelnuts.
