Dairy Free/Gluten Free Chocolate!
#301036 - 02/28/07 07:41 PM
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I just did a search on the boards and couldn't find anything on this new discovery....
I found 100% Dairy Free & Gluten Free Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips at the grocery store today- I live in Colorado and found them at King Soopers. I absolutely love them....now I have something I can take to the movies! I'm so excited about this...their website is Sunspire Tropical Source Dairy-Free Chocolate Chips From their website:
"Deliciously dark, smooth Tropical Source baking chips are loaded with premium chocolate and delicately sweetened with evaporated cane juice. These delightful baking chips are also 100% dairy-free and gluten-free, making them a welcome treat for vegans and for the growing number of people who experience lactose intolerance, dairy allergies, and sensitivity to gluten -- a protein found in wheat, rye, barley and oats.
Tropical Source baking chips enjoy this unique purity because they are manufactured in one of the only chocolate factories in the world that has dedicated production equipment that is never used with dairy or gluten ingredients. This sets Tropical Source apart from virtually all other dark and bitter sweet chocolates, which are often produced on 'mixed lines' that may contain trace amounts of allergens in the equipment.
No matter what your dietary needs are, you'll enjoy these rich, melt-in-your-mouth dark chocolate flavor. Where chocolate is concerned, you should sacrifice nothing - especially taste.
Tropical Source Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips were picked as the best baking chip in a chip-to-chip comparison conducted by the highly regarded PBS television show, America's Test Kitchen*.
After going up against seven other brands, including Nestle® Toll House®, Hershey's®, and Ghiradelli®, Tropical Source's baking chips came out as the winner. The judging criteria included several aspects of taste, appearance and presentation.
*America's Test Kitchen is produced by A La Carte Communications, with executive producers Geoffrey Drummond and Nat Katzman, and director Herb Sevush. American's Test Kitchen is presented by American Public Television in Boston.
Nutritional Facts
Serving Size: 2 Tbsp (15 g)
Servings Per Container: 18
Amount Per Serving
Calories 70 Calories from Fat 40
%Daily Value*
Total Fat 4g 6%
Saturated Fat 2.5g 13%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0.5%
Sodium 1mg 0%
Total Carbohydrates 9g 3%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 8g
Protein 0.5g
Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0% Iron 2%
*Percentage Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Ingredients
Evaporated cane juice, unsweetened chocolate cocoa butter, roasted soy flour, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), pure vanilla extract. Made in a facility that processes peanuts and tree nuts.
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I had been eating these for over a year (the Almond and Raspberry chocolate), but I stopped because I assumed that the chocolate contained caffeine, which is a trigger. These are really good, so I hated to take them out of my diet. I tried doing a search on chocolate and caffeine, and came up with completely different answers - some say it contains as much as a cup of decaffeinated coffee, some say "just a litte," and one article says it's just a rumor that chocolate contains caffeine. Can anyone answer this with certainty?
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Oops-sorry. You were talking about the chocolate chips, and I was talking about the candy bars, but they look like they have almost the same ingredients.
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Oh yeah- I forgot about the relationship between chocolate and caffeine-I didn't think about that. As long as I eat it after a meal and in small quantities I don't have any problems with it.
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