Dark Chocolate Goji with Raspberry Superfruits

Company: Brookside Foods Ltd., New York

Introduced: May 2011

Distribution: National

Suggested Retail: $4.49-4.99 for a 7-oz. package

Product Snapshot: The dark chocolate superfruits line now consists of a Goji with Raspberry option. These real fruit juice pieces are dipped in pure dark chocolate, offering a natural source of flavanol antioxidants.

Ingredients: Dark chocolate (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, butter fat, alkalized cocoa powder, soya lecithin, salt, natural flavor), fruit juice from concentrate (filtered water, raspberry juice concentrate, goji berry juice concentrate, apple juice concentrate, lemon juice concentrate), cane sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin (corn), pectin, citric acid, malic acid, natural flavor, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), canola oil, confectioner’s glaze. Contains: milk, soy. May contain: wheat, peanuts, cashews, almonds, pecans, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts.

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