KEFIR (darkmilk) Naive, 57 g
Product detailed description
A chocolate that keeps changing. Naive folded ten percent kefir into its darkmilk bar and left the microorganisms alive in it. The bar therefore goes on maturing inside the wrapper, much as cheese does, and its flavour shifts over time.
Kefir has been at home in Lithuania for centuries. The grains have been passed down there from one generation to the next, and fermented milk belongs to the local table as naturally as sauerkraut does further west. In chocolate that tradition shows up as a gentle acidity and a lift people describe as champagne, alongside notes of milk ice cream, almond and flowers.
Fifty seven percent cocoa solids give the bar body, grass fed milk powder gives it cream, and the kefir brightens the whole thing. The only sweetener is raw cane sugar, 17.1 g of sugars across the whole bar.
Key benefits
- 57% cocoa solids – darkmilk, a milk chocolate carrying as much cocoa as a dark bar
- 10% kefir – the cultures stay active in the bar and the chocolate keeps maturing
- Grass fed milk powder – milk from pasture raised cows gives the bar its cream
- No refined sugar – sweetened with raw cane sugar, 17.1 g of sugars per bar
- No emulsifier – no lecithin, no added flavourings, no preservatives
- Flavour profile – milk ice cream, champagne, almond, flowers and a refreshing tang
How to enjoy it
Let a piece melt slowly on the tongue so the acidity has time to open up. Eaten that way a 57 g bar lasts several days. Keep it cool, and let it come up to room temperature before you taste it.
Ingredients
Speciality cacao*, raw cane sugar*, cocoa butter*, kefir 10%, grass fed milk powder*. * wild harvested or from all natural farming. Cocoa solids 57% minimum. Made in Lithuania.
| Nutrition | per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 2116 kJ / 503 kcal |
| Fat | 45.6 g |
| of which saturates | 24.7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 42.8 g |
| of which sugars | 30 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Salt | 44 mg |
Important information
Contains milk. May contain traces of nuts, peanuts and gluten. Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. The best before date is printed on the pack.
Distributor
Manufacturer: Chocolate Naive, Lithuania.
Distributor: Adam Raw, Metylovice 552, 739 49 Metylovice, Czech Republic, Reg. No. 03452824.
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Naive: bean-to-bar chocolate from Lithuania that treats cacao like wine
Naive is a small Lithuanian chocolate maker with an unusual approach. Rather than forcing every bean into the same recipe, the team analyses each cacao lot for taste, colour, aroma and texture and only then decides how to roast, grind and finish it. The goal is to reveal the character of that specific bean, not to hide it under sugar and vanilla.
The results have put Lithuania on the map of fine chocolate and earned Naive a reputation as one of the rising names in the craft chocolate world. Some bars are experiments you will not see anywhere else: Jaguar Tree Cacao made from the rare Theobroma bicolor, Ambrosia, a dark chocolate with bee pollen and honey, Kefir dark-milk, and the sugar-free Molecules series. More than twenty of them are on the shelf at BJP Store.