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| This information is brought to you as a public service because we feel that the confectionary industry should be free from the behaviors listed below. |
Just say NO to fake chocolate
Would you want fake diamonds?
Would you want plastic flowers?
Then why get swizzled* with fake chocolate?
We've done a lot of research and found that the following companies are advertising "Chocolate Covered Strawberries" but that the substance they are dipping the strawberries in can not legally be called Chocolate.
Shari's Berries®
ProFlowers®
Cherry Moon Farms®
Secret Spoon®
Red Envelope® - NEW
some of the above companies also list their products on the following sites:
Chocolates by Gini® NOW CLOSED
One Passion Place® No longer sells product
Cover Me Chocolate® NOW CLOSED
Gift Baskets Remembered®
shop.com®
gifts.com®
shopzilla®
catalogs.com®
givechocolate.com® No longer sells product
We asked the source of these non-chocolate berries (they are all made by the same company), to stop the misleading advertising but except for some minor wording in some of the Internet ads, they continue to advertise that they are making "Chocolate Covered Strawberries" as an Internet search term and on their sites.
We are currently researching the source of several other "brands" of possibly non-chocolate strawberries and will update this list as needed.
New Finds:
The Following companies were also found to not use real Chocolate
Berry Elegance®
The Berry Factory®.
While CCBerries® uses real gourmet chocolate it seems that many of the companies don't feel the need to actually make what they advertise.
The ingredients used to make chocolate are no secret, neither are the FDA regulations of that should be in chocolate, it's as simple as going to the FDA web site at www.fda.gov and entering "white chocolate", "milk chocolate" or "bittersweet chocolate" in the search field. Or you can click here for : White Chocolate, Milk Chocolate or Bittersweet (Dark) ChocolateSee how they fool you ( Click here) What's a swizzle?
*swizz : a swindle or disappointment',
swiz: slang for 'the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme'
Swizzled is also what a few of companies mentioned above call 'drizzled'.
We have no idea why they needed to call 'drizzled' something else, but that someone would select a word with such a definition is pretty funny.
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