Belgian Chocolates Given Tooth-Friendly Seal Of Approval

Thu, 04 Dec 2008

Two new chocolate products deemed ‘tooth friendly’ have been launched by chocolatiers in Belgium .

Chocolate bars with praliné filling and Hopla chocolate figurines have been produced by Belgian chocolate makers Daskalidès and Smet respectively with the help of a Swiss cocoa and chocolate supplier.

Barry Callebaut supplied both companies with his specially developed chocolate variety, which has been awarded the ‘happy tooth' label by Toothfriendly International, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving dental health .

Dr Albert Bär, director at Toothfriendly International, explained: "We only give the Happy Tooth seal of approval to products that are guaranteed safe for teeth ."

"All sweets that carry this logo have been scientifically tested by recognised and independent academic institutes for dental health ."

"Their tests demonstrate that the product does not cause dental caries or tooth decay ."

Barry Callebaut said that the new tooth friendly chocolate has been developed using a special production process and unique ingredients that involves replacing milk proteins and sugar with milk powder and isomaltulose - a natural sugar that can be found in small concentrations in honey and sugar cane.

The supplier added that parents had shown a high level of support for the tooth friendly chocolate, with 73 per cent stating that they felt the purchase of this type of chocolate to be ‘justified’.

Taste-wise, he said that 82 per cent of children rated the chocolate as ‘delicious' or ‘very delicious’.
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