Sweet, easy drinking, some chocolate flavour, a little wishy-washy. It's a pleasant drink, but lacks character and depth of flavour, and much of the pleasure is carried by the sugar rather than the chocolate. This is an instant chocolate but without the milk powder, so you have to add your own milk. If you're doing that, you might as well have a proper hot chocolate and add your own preferred level and type of sweetness.
We tried blending this with an instant hot chocolate, but the result of that was to weaken the instant hot chocolate, even though made with all milk, so the result was not good. When blended with proper hot chocolate there is greater depth of flavour and body, but a lot of hot chocolate has to be added.
Current cost is around £4 for 350g, which, given that you have to add your own milk, and the finished product is a bit wimpy, doesn't represent good value for money.
But it's each to their own, and some may like its sweet, easy drinking nature.
Website: Twinings Swiss Chocolate Drink
Ingredients: Sugar, fat-reduced cocoa powder (18%), glucose, chocolate (7%) (sugar, cocoa mass, fat-reduced cocoa powder, flavouring vanillin), mineral dicalcium phosphate, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), flavouring vanillin, salt.
Date: July 2021 Score: 4
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