chocolate
Cashew Butter + Pure Vanilla Dark Chocolate
Hu Kitchen provides an exceptionally clean ingredient list that avoids refined sugars, emulsifiers like PGPR, and alkalization (Dutch processing), preserving natural flavanols. It misses a Gold tier due to the lack of publicly accessible, batch-specific COAs for heavy metals, a critical transparency factor for high-consumption dark chocolate. While it meets the 70% cacao threshold, the $6 price point is slightly high for a non-therapeutic (under 85%) cacao percentage.
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