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Prodigy Snacks was founded in 2018 in the UK and is considered the UK’s first plastic negative chocolate bar. They have started a natural revolution in snacking, crafting velvety smooth cacao chocolate made from natural ingredients and bursting with vitamins. The chocolate bars produced are free from dairy, refined sugar, palm oil, and gluten. They value gut health and therefore their bars have added prebiotic fibre!
Prodigy Snacks was founded in 2018 in the UK and is considered the UK’s first plastic negative chocolate bar. They have started a natural revolution in snacking, crafting velvety smooth cacao chocolate made from natural ingredients and bursting with vitamins. The chocolate bars produced are free from dairy, refined sugar, palm oil, and gluten.
No information has been found on any awards received.
Various stockists throughout the UK, such as Delicious Ideas, Sysco, Diverse Fine Foods, Epicurium, CLF, Suma, DDC, Airberg Ltd, The Goodness Project, The Vegan Store, Wholefoods IRE and more.
Various stockists throughout the UK, such as Delicious Ideas, Sysco, Diverse Fine Foods, Epicurium, CLF, Suma, DDC, Airberg Ltd, The Goodness Project, The Vegan Store, Wholefoods IRE and more.
100% plastic-free, compostable packaging (except aluminium from the chocolate egg). The material is cellulose from NatureFlex, made from sustainably sourced wood pulp which acts like plastic. In fact, they are plastic-negative by helping clean up plastic waste.
Rainforest Alliance (cacao)
100% plastic-free, compostable packaging (except aluminium from the chocolate egg). The material is cellulose from NatureFlex, made from sustainably sourced wood pulp which acts like plastic. In fact, they are plastic-negative by helping clean up plastic waste.
Rainforest Alliance (cacao)
Cacao: Peru (bars) and Dominican Republic (eggs and biscuits)
Lucuma (Powder supplement): Peru
United Kingdom
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Prodigy Snacks is carbon neutral through offsetting their emissions in collaboration with Climate Partner. They have offset over 378 tonnes of carbon by supporting a rainforest project in the Peruvian Amazon.
Compared to mainstream products, their 100% plant-based products have relatively low carbon footprint. They have annual reduction targets, recycle and upcycle as much as possible and use only green energy suppliers.
Prodigy Snacks is carbon neutral through offsetting their emissions in collaboration with Climate Partner. They have offset over 300 tonnes of carbon by supporting a rainforest project in the Peruvian Amazon. Compared to mainstream products, their 100% plant-based products have relatively low carbon footprint. They have annual reduction targets, recycle and upcycle as much as possible and use only green energy suppliers.
Prodigy Snacks monitor water usage and seek to reduce usage on a per-employee basis vs the previous year.
The cocoa farmers in Peru engage in regenerative farming practices meaning the cacao is grown with sustainability in mind and helps to regenerate the soil (unlike exploitative farming that leads to deforestation and local community damage).
Over 1 billion single-use plastic confectionary wrappers are discarded in the UK every year. Prodigy Snacks is considered the UK’s first plastic negative chocolate, which means that they remove more plastic from the environment than they produce. Moreover, their wrappers are biodegradable and compostable and will decompose in a shorter time (12-24 months) compared to the plastic foil single-use wrapper found in the typical chocolate bar (decades).
Recycling as much as practical, upcycling, and reusing many of the cardboard boxes is also done by Prodigy, to further decrease waste.
Lastly, for every Prodigy product sold, they fund the removal of 5-35 ocean-bound plastic wrappers from the environment.
Since the start of their plastic negative certification, up to the end of May 2023 the combination of our plastic free wrappers and removal of 10 wrappers for each bar sold means over 19 million wrappers-worth of long-term plastic pollution has been saved from the environment.
No toxic chemicals are present in the supply chain of these chocolate bars
Prodigy Snacks do not have a Fairtrade certification at this stage, however, they support the practice of trading fairly. Their suppliers receive a fair price for their produce, as well as local community support initiatives. Moreover, they support initiatives to redistribute food to the most vulnerable in our society.
More information on their impact, from refined sugar to gut health, can be found on their impact page.