KAO Crimson — Raspberry Pistachio

A performance dark chocolate bar built on tallow, not seed oil, with the deepest raspberry color in the line.

Every KAO bar starts with high-flavanol cacao: pure cacao mass, organic raw cacao powder and organic cocoa butter. Where most bars use seed oils and emulsifiers, KAO uses suet tallow, which gives a clean snap and stable fat. It is sweetened with allulose and a trace of monk fruit, so there is no cane sugar. Fruit is freeze-dried whole and micro-milled, not flavoring. Cacao flavanols are the compounds that make dark chocolate worth eating.

Crimson carries the heaviest fruit load in the line after Zenith: freeze-dried raspberry, whole and micro-milled, which is what makes the color that deep. Chopped pistachios on the display face. It also carries tart cherry extract, pomegranate extract and astaxanthin.

Who this is for

• Post-workout, when you want something with tart cherry in it
• Low-sugar and keto eaters who miss real dark chocolate
• A square with an evening cup of tea
• Anyone cutting seed oils who reads the back of candy bars

Details

• 50 g bar
• Contains tree nuts (pistachio)
• Caffeine-free apart from what naturally occurs in cacao
• Ask at the counter for the full ingredient breakdown

KAO Performance Chocolate is a small maker whose bars we carry because the ingredient list matches ours: real fat, real fruit, no cane sugar.