What's more than others?

In this type of chocolate, 95% of the ingredients come from organic farming, as for all products that display the AB logo! Clearly, this means that the cocoa trees have grown without pesticides, insecticides or chemical fertilizers and that in the tablet there are no artificial flavors or soy lecithin.

Hence its bad reputation come from?

So far the brands have been more interested in adding an organic reference to their range than floor on the flavor of their chocolate, often accused of having a taste diffuse and without family aromatic. Now a good chocolate, the pros says, it's like a good wine, it works, at length, with the best ingredients - milk, sugar, hazelnuts ... - added by the manufacturer.

Is it healthier or not?

It's not really obvious. All chocolates, organic or not, come from cocoa plantations, 90% of which are maintained by small family businesses which, because of lack of means to buy insecticides and fertilizers, finally ensure a quality close to organic, but without having the label .

How to recognize the good?

The taste is not discussed. But preferring to the big industrial chocolatiers like Valrhona, which we know they provide artisans, or brands stamped organic, as Alter Eco (their "intense black" was released n ° 1 of the test UFC-Que Choisir), can have nice and tasty
surprises. Price can also be a good indicator of quality. Below 20 € the kg, we forget.

Chocolate Show, from October 28 to November ^1, Hall 5, Porte de Versailles, Paris ^15th. www.salonduchocolat.fr

Thanks to Valrhona, Michel Cluizel, Abanico and Alter Eco.