Taitau Exclusive Selection 90% Extra Dark Chocolate, 3.5 oz (100g)

Ninety percent cocoa. This is the bar at the far end of the dark shelf — almost no sugar, nothing to hide behind, just cocoa. If you have been working your way up through 70% and 85%, this is the next step. If you have not, start with the 62%.

Taitau's Exclusive Selection is made in Lithuania by UAB "Meškėnas" from Ghanaian and Arriba cocoa beans. Arriba is the Ecuadorian variety prized for its floral, almost jasmine note; against the deeper, more earthy Ghanaian beans it keeps a bar this dark from turning flat.

How to eat it: let a square sit on the tongue rather than chewing it. At this cocoa percentage the flavour arrives in stages — bitterness first, then fruit, then a long dry finish. It is also an excellent cooking chocolate where you want cocoa depth without adding sweetness.

Ingredients: cocoa mass (made from premium quality Ghanaian and Arriba cocoa beans), sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier — rapeseed lecithin, flavouring — vanillin. Contains at least 90% cocoa solids.

Allergens: may contain traces of peanuts, hazelnuts, gluten and milk.

Nutrition — 5 servings per container, serving size 3 pieces (20 g): 120 calories, total fat 10 g (13% DV), saturated fat 6 g (32% DV), trans fat 0 g, cholesterol 0 mg, sodium 0 mg, total carbohydrate 3 g (1% DV), dietary fibre 3 g (11% DV), total sugars 2 g, protein 2 g.

Net weight 100 g (3.5 oz). Product of Lithuania. Store in a cool, dry place at 18±3°C, relative humidity no higher than 75%.