Keto chocolate, which chocolate to choose on the keto diet, LCHF (photo)

Hello! My name is Olya and I am a chocolate addict on a keto diet. Of course, the first few months on keto, I lasted without any chocolate, but then I read a lot of interesting things about the beneficial properties of cocoa beans that I decided to return these beans to my life. I didn’t find anything suitable in Vkusville, but I didn’t give up and decided to choose the perfect keto chocolate for myself and do it in regular stores, without ayherb and other beauty stores, where I rarely get carried. I wanted to find chocolate for every day, which I can easily throw into the basket in a regular supermarket.

As a result, by typing and reading labels, I chose the chocolate of my dreams, which I will tell you about at the end of the review.

The victory of taste has not won

First, I tried chocolate of the Pobeda Vkusa brand. It was bought in the Victoria chain store, but I saw it in other networks as well.

It is called "Bitter chocolate 72% without sugar on stevia." Yes, it sounded good and it tastes good, but upon a closer reading of the label, the cocoa itself turned out to be not 72, but 55%, which is not enough. And in the composition, the role of a sweetener is still played by maltitol, indicated in the composition in second place. Stevia is clearly added there for the sake of beauty. I had a fierce hunger from this chocolate bar, although I was full and I could not stop, I ate it all, from which the conclusion, insulin jumped, followed by my appetite. All in all, it's tasty, but it's pure maltitol and not keto.

I don’t remember the price, but about 150 rubles per tile.

Ingredients: cocoa mass, maltitol (sweetener), cocoa powder, prebiotic (inulin), cocoa butter, flavor (vanillin), emulsifier (lecithin), natural sweetener (stevia). Chocolate contains, at least: total dry cocoa residue - 65%, cocoa butter - 33%. May contain traces of nuts, grains, dairy products.

Faithful to quality, not taste

The second option was chocolate from the manufacturer "Faithfulness to quality"

The collection of dark chocolate is called Apriori. I chose the one with only 99% chocolate and vanilla extract. This is the perfect keto composition, of course, and I liked that it is packaged in 5g slabs and is convenient to eat.

But to be honest, it is not very tasty. When I tried it for the first time, it seemed to me that I was eating cardboard. With armored coffee, butter and nuts, it became a little tastier (see photo below). It does not cause a fierce appetite, you cannot eat it all at once, it seems that sugar has not been hidden anywhere.

In general, this is a good keto chocolate in composition and at a good price, about 190 rubles per bar in Moscow. But tasteless, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, it is the 99% version that is sold in few places, I saw in "Your House". In other large supermarkets, I met only no more than 85%.

¡Que viva Ecuador!

The third option was close to my dream of keto chocolate.

Ecuadorian Hoja Verde Chocolate 100% gave me the wow effect I wanted. This is a very tasty chocolate, where there is just grated cocoa in the composition, on obviously excellent cocoa beans. It is Kosher, Vegan, USDA Organic, EU Organic Farming approved and participates in the Fair Trade support program. In general, Ecuadorian virgins make it, it is of excellent quality.

Butterflies in my stomach rustled from him, and for a long time he became my favorite. No side effects, I can eat a square of coffee at breakfast and be happy all day. It did not affect appetite in any way, insulin obviously did not jump from it. Very pleasant rich cocoa taste, a little oily.

Everything in it suited me for a long time, except for the price and availability. Found it on sale only in the store "Your House" at a price of 499 rubles for 50 grams. But we, ketosis people, are determined people and I have even called his representatives in Russia to buy a box with a wholesale discount.

Happiness was in a different department

I walked past the cocoa department and saw a beige kraft package with the words "cocoa liquor" from the manufacturer "Bob Cocoa Trading". In general, this is the same chocolate, but it is not sold next to the chocolate, but in the cocoa department. The composition and proportion of BJU turned out to be just keto-ideal. Only 11.6 grams of carbohydrates and almost 50 grams of fat. Dietary fibers are indicated separately, which is very rare for domestic labels. The composition sounds like a Latin American song: cocoa liquor, natural from elite Trinitario cocoa beans, Colombia. I would like to add "te quiero mucho, mi corazon"

I bought a large tile 220 g for 399 rubles. (You can find out more about my expenses on the keto diet by following the link) Then I bought another one and took it for my mother-in-law.

It turned out to be fragrant, cool chocolate made from Colombian cocoa beans, which also does not cause any insulin passions. On the contrary, when I finish breakfast with coffee with it, there is a pleasant feeling that I have eaten the dessert and the body is grateful to me. The label promised "an excellent antidepressant", I agree with it, perhaps.

The only thing I didn’t like about it was that it was inconvenient to cut. Pieces do not break off exactly, only with a knife. Hard.

I hope that soon we will be able to make a joint keto purchase of this chocolate, I am negotiating with the supplier. And if I meet a new chocolate love, I will add it to the same article, do not switch.

Keto chocolate rating

1. The first place is shared by Hoja Verde 100% and Midnight Chocolate with ayherb. But read about it below.
2. Grated cocoa.
3. "A priori 99%" Loyalty to quality

What's your favorite keto chocolate? Tell me in the comments or on Instagram, at least I'll be glad that someone reads my reviews and I'm not the only chocolate addict on the keto diet.

A little about cocoa and cocoa powder

I read a few interesting facts about cocoa in the book "Fat for Fuel" by Joseph Mercola, a review of which is available to you here (By the way, this same book was recently published with a new cover "Keto diet"). But the doctor recommends cocoa powder and cocoa butter more, although the rest of the keto experts I have read are in favor of dark bitter chocolate with a minimum or no sugar or sweeteners and for all cocoa in general. So, Mercola advises:

• There is cocoa powder because it contains 4 times more antioxidants than dark chocolate.
• It contains calcium, protein, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, magnesium, sulfur and more than 380 phytochemicals.
• It can be conveniently added to smoothies and keto desserts.
• Cocoa powder does not contain polyunsaturated fats and, using it in your food, you will not exceed the omega-6 norm. Do you know how important the balance of omega-3 and omega-6 is, or tell about it separately?

Three more types of keto chocolate

Update December 2018

I'll tell you about those types of chocolate that you began to ask about most often after the release of this article. so

Lindt 85%

Comrades, of course 85% sounds almost like keto chocolate, but look at the composition. Still 11 grams of pure sugar per bar and reduced-fat cocoa. Why are they downgrading it? Here, strange.

Red chocolate

The second handsome red chocolate from Latvia is a great camouflage and you often ask about him.

But let's take a look at the composition. Erythritol, stevia, class! Like the healthiest sugar substitutes. But here's polydextrose, soy lecithin and mysterious flavors, and why do we need low-fat cocoa on a keto diet? That's right, they are not needed. Plus, it's not tasty. Apparently polydextrose is not my type. And as many as 30 carbohydrates per tile, too much, comrades. I do not recommend it.

Midnight Coconut Chocolate

I read on the KETO blog that iHerb now has chocolate suitable for the keto diet. You can see the link. Sugarless. It costs 351 rubles for a tile of 65 grams. The composition looks perfect, cocoa, coconut, vanilla, everything.

I bought it and tried it. In general, there is a thin, pretty chocolate bar with coconut on one side. It tastes very similar to Ecuadorian chocolate, see above. In general, it is quite tasty, but it is completely dark and you won't eat much. I ate a tile for two days. Most likely they will not order again.iHerb began delivering everything to Moscow at an unrealistic speed, but I switched to homemade keto chocolate.

From comments about keto chocolate:

- Wow) for some reason I want to make masks / scrubs out of it. Not only is there.

- I didn’t think about it, but I’m sure that you can do it

- How tasty the article is written

I found in joint purchases cocoa liquor 1000 per kg and cocoa butter 1000 per kg, Lucker minidiscs

- Have you tried chocolate from the Rotfront Ecobotanic on stevia? It seems like it is better than the Victory of taste

- I saw it, but did not like the composition, did not take it не

- I have 97.7% and it is tadaaam salty and strange in taste)))

- Wow! Salty tastes interesting, which manufacturer? 😊

- A priori, I like 75-85%, chocolate from a communal woman is 99% bitter and tasty, quoting you "I had a dessert and ate"). Lindt 85%, Ashanovsky chocolate 85%, in a heidy ribbon seems to be very tasty

- Yes, I know almost all of these options, except for heidy, but now I'm afraid of chocolate, even with minimal sugar, it wakes up a glutton in me fits, always glad to cooperate with other keto authors😉🥑

- Hint)). Well, here individually rather. I like the chocolate from the communal woman so much (I'll take a picture), and it's bitter that I eat more of it! But on the contrary, you don't want sweet ones anymore.

- Great! I want chocolate, but I have estrogen dominance, I can't put up beans I still struggle with all my strength, coconut-coconut and more coconut 😢

- Wow, I sympathize🙈 blessing and coconut is delicious today

- Oh, I was treated to such a chocolate from the Dominican Republic;) this is awesome, half of such a strip for a mug of milk;) nyama;)

- Oh yes, pure cocoa grated smells awesome and is very tasty😍👍

- Is that ufeelgood jagannath chocolate?)

- No, in the photo just a handsome man produced by "Bob Cacao Trading" was bought at "Your House"