“Taste Test” of the naked truth chocolate:
1. salted caramel milk choc bar
2. coffee beans and popping candy milk choc bar
If you shop at Coles you will have noticed that there has been a new addition to the confectionery isle: the “naked truth” chocolate bars and lollies.
I looked up their web site and they say they are for “thrill seekers, risk takers and chocoholics” – sounds exciting! The packets are transparent so you can actually see the bars and lollies, hence “the naked truth” (I have just assumed this, because there is not much information on their web site to this regard). It is very clever and I really like their presentation and the way they have branded themselves. When sitting next to Lindt and Cadbury, they have a very unique presence in the confectionery isle.
Another thing that separates them from their competitors is their flavour selection. They don’t offer the regular chocolate flavours, instead they opt for things like “lemon coconut cream pie white chocolate”. WOW!
salted caramel milk choc bar
VERDICT:
Veronique: I was thrown off a bit by the visible salt on top of the bar, and the taste of the salt i found very overwhelming. I don’t like the taste of the chocolate itself. The caramel is ok.
Spencer:
After his first bite spencer ran for a glass of water, finding the salt overwhelmed the chocolate and caramel, rather then having any subtlety in the saltiness. Despite his dislike for the chocolate, Spencer proceeded to polish off the rest of the bar anyway.
coffee beans and popping candy milk choc bar
VERDICT:
Veronique:
Again, not a fan of the chocolate. The ground coffee is nice. Can’t taste any popping candy. This bar is hard to break and share.
Spencer:
Spencer decided the chocolate doesn’t taste nice. he found it dry, and claimed it did not melt in your mouth like chocolate should. He liked the flavour of the coffee but found the popping candy had no ‘pop’. He couldn’t even finish this bar!
We also had a third party come in to taste this bar, and here are his thoughts:
Les: “I really like the texture of the ground coffee on my tongue. There is a too-sweet nasty taste of popping candy, without the pop. There are just a few small pops here and there, but not enough. The chocolate itself isn’t nice. “
The good: 1. You can see the bar. 2. They offer flavours and infusions in their Chocolate that are so unique and different so if you like a flavour I highly doubt you could find it anywhere but on their bars!
The bad: The first thing I noticed was the “vegetable fat” in their ingredients. This is standard in “cheap” chocolates. Using 100% cocoa butter (like in Chocolab) makes a more premium chocolate which is a lot more expensive to produce. Cocoa butter is obtained from whole cocoa beans, which are fermented, roasted, and then separated from their hulls. When you combine cocoa with vegetable fat, or hydrogenated fats as a replacement for some of the cocoa butter you end up with “compound” chocolate, which is basically not as nice and does not produce the smooth and creamy melt-in-your-mouth effect that chocolate should have. (Fun fact: In many countries when you add vegetable fat to chocolate it may not legally be called “chocolate”.). Lindt and Cadbury use Milk fat, so again, not as good as 100% pure cocoa butter chocolate.
The ugly: You would assume that with such unique flavours they would have done extensive testing and tasting first. Maybe they did, but we really think that in this department they failed. At least for the 2 bars that we tried.
VERDICT: When we buy supermarket chocolate, we will be sticking to Lindt or Cadbury. 🙂
And that’s the naked truth! 😉
Clever packaging…..’naked truth’ kind of conjures up thoughts of the products having more natural ingredients.
That and the fact they are Aussie made with interesting flavours mad me quite happy to give them a go. Unfortunately as I was in a rush, I didn’t check the ingredients as I usually would as we all know the dangers of branding.
I bought the blood orange babies with bellies, as I love anything blood orange……well, almost anything, with these being the exception. It was an undefined taste and then left and extremely bitter after taste in my mouth.
Oh, the ‘blood orange’ is all flavours,colours and chemicals. Big fail.
Agreed, only I did look at the ingredients, decided against the chocolate. Instead, bought a bag of the sherbert strawberries for the kids (as the bags are so small)
and was very disappointed even though my hopes weren’t very high. Just rubbery, below average sweets. I love idea of all the flavours and am immediately attracted to them every time I see them. But never again!!
I was suggested this blog by my cousin. I’m not sure whether this post is written by him as no one else know such detailed about my difficulty. You are wonderful! Thanks! dakkeckdaded
Maybe I have inferior judgement, but I really like this chocolate. It’s way better than Cadbury or Lindt just for the great range of flavours, and the chocolate itself is good enough for me. I’ve never been a fan of Lindt’s super-creamy chocolate, and Cadbury always tastes like they mixed vegemite in it.
Do you know if the chocolate is fair trade?
Hi Heather, I don’t think so – they usually have the fair trade symbol on them if they are.
Love this chocolate smooth not sickly sweet could eat it all day .kaye
But I like it tho.
We recently discovered the naked Truth chocolate bars and we love them. Almost all of the flavours get my tick of approval. There is one failure, the salted caramel with salt flakes on the outside. No more of that one. No-one in the household wants to finish the left-over piece. other than that, love them all.
Not very nice at all. If you take the care to slice the chicolate in half it looks as though they have very simply poured salt or chilli flakes into the bottom of the mould and then poured moulten chocolate on top. That is why the salt and chilli is so overpowering as one side of yr mouth gets nothing but chocolate whilst the other gets hit with salt or chilli. Not very nice at all, would not recommend at all. Flavours do compliment chocolate very well when done properly, unfortunatly not very well at all here in this brand.
I tried a few of the flavours that Coles actually had in stock. The dark choc ones I didn’t mind, like “59% love & 41% cocoa. But my favourite was the “mother-in-law” one. I don’t think it’s got veg oil in it compared to all the others. But cocoa butter. It’s really creamy melt in your mouth. It’s been a while since I’ve had some, coz that was sold out at the time, but I remember it being very more-ish. If that’s the only sweet I was allowed, I’d be in heaven!!!