Review of Mini Choco Mais - Fiorentini by peter-plant-power
PICCOLINI CHOCOLATE COATED DELIGHTS FROM ITALY
🧐🤔Is it better to buy organic food items in supermarkets or in specialized organic stores? Well, even if the presence of organic food in classic supermarkets is on the increase and helps to create and grow the demand for more pesticide-free and respectfully cultivated organic produce, organic products in specialized stores are often cheaper. But in supermarkets you will discover other brands. The Carrefour supermarkets in Belgium present a range of organic food with brands and manufacturers not found in the specialized stores. Like this Italian brand Fiorentini.
Taste/bite: 👍Crispy as corn crackers should be. The chocolate is dark, but pretty sweetened, it’s only 60% cocoa solids. Taste is OK.
Ingredients: Everything is organic. Corn, a chocolate coating, sea salt and some corn oil. Relatively rich in fat due to te chocolate, medium sweetness (17 g sugars per 100 g). A respectable protein content of 8,4 g per 100 g of product.
Shape/Conditioning: Small plastic pack with 60 g of crackers. The packaging states that it is recyclable. So all depends on what local authorities do with the waste treatment process. Terms like “recyclable” are pretty hollow, they create a false feeling of eco-responsibility. A lot of the so-called “recyclable” plastics do end up in countries where it is simply dumped or burnt, causing local harm. The best plastic is plastic that was never produced.
Price: I paid 1,55 € (April 2023), for the 60 g pack. Relatively expensive in relation to the amount of product, and with its bad packaging/content ratio you would prefer bigger size packages. It’s the trap of convenience, in moments of weakness.
The brand is Italian and seems to be based in the city of Torino. Like this one, a lot of their products are labelled vegan, with the label VEGANOK. Torino is said to be one of Italy’s most vegan cities and seems to have (or have had) a female vegan mayor in office who said she wanted to promote veganism in het city.
www.fiorentinialimentari.it
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