iChoc

iChoc

Traceable, vegan and organic chocolate

What does this brand sell?

Vegan chocolate bars

Germany

Vegan/ vegetarian?
100% Vegan
Delivery
No details are available regarding delivery methods, this can depend on where it’s ordered
Transportation mode
Truck, Boat
Vegan / vegetarian
100% Vegan
Delivery
No details are available regarding delivery methods, this can depend on where it’s ordered
Transportation Mode
Truck, Boat

Does this brand offset carbon emissions and/or implement circular business practices?

They do not mention circularity, but their production partner (Weinrich chocolate factory in Herford) is carbon neutral through Climate Partner

About The Company

Get the ins and outs

iChoc is a German company that produces fair, organic and vegan chocolate bars. They value fair conditions throughout the whole supply chain. They do not use any plastic, palm oil or ‘questionable flavourings’ in their products. On each bar, you will find a code that you can use to track the chocolate bar – who farmed the cacao, where was it collected and shipped to and using what mean of transport?

“Complete Transparency, True Fairness!”

Their chocolate production partner has become carbon neutral.

Continue working on their ‘Cocoa Project’ in the Dominican Republic by empowering producers to produce honest, fair and sustainable chocolate.

National Nutrition Award 2019 “Best Bar” in Canada

The iChoc Salty Pretzel won Silver in the Vegan Food and Living Awards 2023 in the UK and the “Meilleur Produit Bio” award in France

Product details

Find out more details about the products

Store locator

You can find iChoc in various supermarkets across Europe, including the Netherlands (AH), Germany (Biomarkt, Reformhaus, EDEKA Südwest), Norway, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Check out all shops online.

Delivery To* (Website)

Delivery across Europe (through their own online shop or through resellers)

Subscription

This brand does not offer a subscription programme.

Store locator

You can find iChoc in various supermarkets across Europe, including the Netherlands (AH), Germany (Biomarkt, Reformhaus, EDEKA Südwest), Norway, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Check out all shops online.

Delivery To* (Website)

Delivery across Europe (through their own online shop or through resellers)

Packaging/packaging materials

The bars are packaged in a film produced from wood fibre which can be composted at home. The outer box consists of FSC-certified cardboard. Printing is done with mineral oil-free printing inks

Donations / partnerships

The iChoc project helps the local community of the organic cocoa farmers in the Dominican Republic by building water talks with filters to provide safe drinking water, and offer support for organic production of fertilisers and pesticides.

Each bar contains a code that can be used to trace where the chocolate bar came from. Every time a bar gets traced, they donate 5 cents to this project in the Dominican Republic.

They have also collaborated with Billie Eilish to create a limited edition chocolate bar.

Subscription

This brand does not offer a subscription programme.

Ingredients

The exact ingredients depend on the specific bar in question, but example ingredients are beet sugar, cocoa butter, buckwheat flour, cocoa mass, tiger nut flour, almond oil

Fully sourced and manufactured in Europe?

No

Certifications

The cardboard packaging is FSC-certified

The cocoa is Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance certified

Ingredients are organic certified.

Ingredients

The exact ingredients depend on the specific bar in question, but example ingredients are beet sugar, cocoa butter, buckwheat flour, cocoa mass, tiger nut flour, almond oil

Fully sourced and manufactured in Europe?

No

Packaging/packaging materials

The bars are packaged in a film produced from wood fibre which can be composted at home. The outer box consists of FSC-certified cardboard. Printing is done with mineral oil-free printing inks

Donations / partnerships

The iChoc project helps the local community of the organic cocoa farmers in the Dominican Republic by building water talks with filters to provide safe drinking water, and offer support for organic production of fertilisers and pesticides.

Each bar contains a code that can be used to trace where the chocolate bar came from. Every time a bar gets traced, they donate 5 cents to this project in the Dominican Republic.

They have also collaborated with Billie Eilish to create a limited edition chocolate bar.

Certifications

The cardboard packaging is FSC-certified

The cocoa is Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance certified

Ingredients are organic certified.

in depth production details

Analyze their supply chain: from the sourcing of raw materials to the people who make the product

Cacao is harvested in the Dominican Republic, where the beans are weighed, documented and assigned to the respective finca.

In Yamasa (Dominican Republic), the beans are fermented, dried and weighed.

The beans are then shipped by container to the Netherlands or Belgium, and continues by ship to Switzerland for temporary storage.

The full journey of each chocolate bar can be traced using the code on the back of the package.

The beans are processed into cocoa mass and butter in Switzerland after which the bars are produced in Herford, Germany.

The full journey of each chocolate bar can be traced using the code on the back of the package.

Each bar (80g) costs 2.49 EUR

The chocolate factory in Herford is carbon neutral through investments in carbon offset projects

No information on this is provided by the brand.

No information on this is provided by the brand.

No palm oil is used in the products and all ingredients are organic, reducing the need for pesticides.

The film of the packaging can be home composted within 50 days and the cardboard cover can be recycled.

No information on this is provided by the brand.

iChoc helps the local community in the Dominican Republic by providing them with safe drinking water and offering support for organic production of fertilisers and pesticides.

Further reading

No more information regarding sustainability reports, life cycle analyses or impact reports is available.

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