Krasny Oktyabr Bitter Dark Chocolate 80% Cocoa, 2.65 oz (75g)

Eighty percent, and only four ingredients. Cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa powder, cocoa butter — plus lecithin and a touch of vanilla. Nothing else. At this cocoa level there is nowhere for a poor bean to hide, which is why the short ingredient list is the point rather than a shortcut.

Krasny Oktyabr — Red October — is the Moscow factory that gave Russia Alenka and most of its best-known confectionery. The red oval mark on the wrapper has been in use for generations.

What to expect: firmly bitter, dry rather than fruity, with a long finish. Very high in fibre for a chocolate at 15.1 g per 100 g, and almost no milk. If you find 70% bars too sweet, this is where to go next.

Ingredients: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier soya lecithin (less than 1%), flavouring "Vanilla". Content of cocoa products — 80%.

Allergens — contains: soya lecithin. May contain small amounts of peanut, almond and hazelnut, milk products and wheat flour.

Nutrition — serving size 75 g (the whole bar): 420 calories, total fat 30 g (46% DV), saturated fat 17 g (85% DV), trans fat 0 g, cholesterol 0 mg, sodium 0 mg, total carbohydrate 22 g (8% DV), dietary fibre 11 g (39% DV), total sugars 15 g including 15 g added sugars (30% DV), protein 9 g, calcium 50 mg (4% DV), iron 8 mg (45% DV), potassium 550 mg (12% DV).

Net weight 75 g (2.65 oz). Krasny Oktyabr PAO, Moscow, Russia. Store at 15–21°C, away from direct sunlight.