Chocolate is one of the favorite desserts for Mexicans and probably for the whole world. The best part about this food is that you get it in so many versions, and one of the most loved is, undoubtedly, powdered chocolate.
Among the most prominent brands are Great Value and Precissimo, both from important supermarkets in Mexico that offer a wide range of products, and for this reason we will tell you how good they are, according to a study conducted by the Federal Consumer Attorney’s Office (Profeco).
Great Value Vs. Which is the best chocolate powder according to Profeco?
Powdered chocolate is made with sugar, cocoa mixture, and optional ingredients.
Profeco determined in his study that they must contain at least 18% cocoa, including 1.8% cocoa butter, and also took into account the following points:
- commercial information
- energetic material
- sugar
- protein
- Fat
Based on the above, it was determined that powdered chocolate Great value complied with the information presented to the consumerand 1.3 g of fat, 12.0 g of sugar, 3.8 g of protein and 75 kilocalories of energy content were recorded for every 100 ml of this product prepared in skimmed milk.
However, it does not provide consumers with vitamins and minerals, and has 85.3 grams of sugar and 418 kilocalories of energy per 100 grams of product (powder).
On the other hand, the chocolate with Precissimo powder failed to comply with the information presented to the consumer, because “the legend ‘Added with vitamins and iron’ stands out in the main area of ​​the label, therefore it does not comply with NOM-051”. -SCFI/SSA1-2010.
Although, Per 100ml of Precissimo Chocolate prepared in skimmed milk, recorded an energy content of 0.8 g fat, 10.9 g sugar, 3.7 g protein and 66 kilocalories.
It should be noted that this product provides vitamins and minerals.
With the above presented, and after the analysis done by Profeco, it can be determined that the best powdered chocolate between these two supermarket brands is Precissimo, because it has less calories, sugars, and its plus is that it contains vitamins and minerals. Contains minerals.
