Vegan Cadbury's Bar Review

 

Cadbury's have finally caught up and released a vegan 'milk' chocolate bar! After adding milk to their accidentally vegan Bournville bar, they have now releaed an explicitly vegan chocolate bar made from almonds. This retails for £2.50 for a 90g bar, and there is a plain version and a salted caramel version.

Is the Cadbury's Plant Bar gluten free?

Yes! The bar contains no gluten or wheat ingredients, but does have a "may contain wheat" cross contamination warning.

What is in the Cadbury's Plant Bar?

Sainsbury's list the ingredients as being:

Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Almond Paste, Cocoa Mass, Rice Extract, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring, Cocoa Solids 42% minimum

so watch out if you're allergic to soya or almonds!

I found this one along side its caramel flavour counterpart in Asda for £2.50. It seems like in some stores such as the Co-Op, the caramel flavour is reduced to clear, so it's possible it might be being discontinued, but Cadbury's have not commented.

In my opinion, this bar is... weird. It has the texture of a non-vegan dairy milk spot on, but it honestly really doesn't taste of anything (and I've done a c*vid test and it's not that!) It's missing any sort of actual chocolate flavour, which is a shame because often with vegan chocolate it is the other way round and the texture is weird.

Overall, I'd say at £2.50 a bar (bearing in mind that the non vegan version retails at about £2.00 for a 200g bar) it's worth a try for a novelty, but is way too expensive for the quality for me to want to buy again. I also can't shake the feeling that they added milk to the label of Bournville (when it supposedly contained milk the whole time before they did) just so they could bring out an incredibly expensive vegan bar, which also puts me off it a bit.

Have you tried it? Let me know what you think in the comments!