88% Raw Cacao Yacon Sweetened Dark Chocolate Bar
88% Raw Cacao Yacon Sweetened Dark Chocolate Bar
This 88% raw cacao bar from Mr Popple's Chocolate is sweetened with low-glycaemic yacon syrup, offering a deep, rich flavour without the sugar spike, and made from unroasted Peruvian Criollo cacao to preserve its natural compounds.
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If you love dark chocolate and want to go deeper, this 88% raw cacao bar is for you. It's bold, rich, and intense, with the subtle dried-fruit and floral notes of Peruvian Criollo cacao shining through, avoiding the flat bitterness often found in high-percentage bars.
Like all Mr Popple's Chocolate, this bar is made from raw, unroasted Criollo cacao. Keeping the temperature below 42°C and stone-grinding it slowly helps to preserve the delicate flavour and natural beneficial compounds that high heat can destroy. When tested by the Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health, Mr Popple's chocolate came out top for polyphenols and antioxidant capacity among five UK dark chocolate brands, simply because the good bits weren't roasted out.
This bar is sugar-free, using organic yacon syrup tapped from the Peruvian yacon plant. With a glycaemic index of just 1 (compared to 68 for cane sugar), it won't cause a blood sugar spike and crash. Yacon syrup also provides prebiotic fibre, which feeds your gut bacteria, making this a genuinely sugar-free chocolate that still feels like a treat. It's dense with fibre, magnesium, and iron, plus a gentle, long-lasting lift from theobromine, satisfying cravings with just a square or two.
Like all Mr Popple's chocolate, it's vegan, organic, ethically traded, and made in a nut-free facility.
Ingredients: Ingredients (all organic): raw (unroasted) cacao, cacao butter, yacon syrup (12%)
Nutrition Information (per 100g): Energy 2479kJ / 600kcal Fat 57.9g (of which saturates 35.6g) Carbohydrates 9.9g (of which sugars 4.4g) Fibre 9.3g Protein 7.5g Salt trace
Available in 35g and 75g bars.
Allergy Information: Dairy free ✔ Gluten free ✔ Soya free ✔ No nuts ✔ No palm oil ✔ No cane sugar ✔
Made in a strictly nut-free facility under a HACCP allergen-control plan. Every ingredient in this bar is sourced from suppliers who do not handle or sell nuts, and all equipment is thoroughly cleaned between batches. As a small-batch maker, Mr Popple's does not carry out end-product testing, but nuts are never present anywhere in this product's supply chain or their facility.
FAQ: Q: What does it taste like? A: Deep, bold and intense, with the dried-fruit and gentle floral notes of Peruvian Criollo cacao showing through, and a smooth melt with a satisfying snap, rather than the gritty, flatly bitter texture of cheaper high-percentage bars.
Q: Is it really sugar-free? A: Yes. There's no refined or cane sugar at all. It's sweetened with a little yacon syrup, which has a glycaemic index of just 1 (cane sugar is around 68), so it won't spike your blood sugar the way ordinary chocolate does.
Q: Is it suitable for diabetics or low-sugar diets? A: Many people managing their blood sugar enjoy it for exactly this reason, thanks to the yacon syrup and high cacao content. As always, if you have a medical condition, it's worth checking with your healthcare provider.
Q: Is it vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free? A: Yes to all three. It's entirely plant-based, with no gluten ingredients and no dairy.
Q: Is it nut-free? A: It's made in a strictly nut-free facility, and every ingredient comes from suppliers who don't handle or sell nuts. As a small-batch maker, Mr Popple's does not carry out end-product testing, so they stop short of an absolute legal guarantee, but nuts are never present in this product or their facility. If you have a severe allergy, please get in touch.
Q: Is the cacao ethically sourced? A: Yes. It's grown by a cooperative in the Peruvian Amazon using sustainable agroforestry, fairly traded, and wrapped in plastic-free, fully compostable packaging.
Q: What sizes does it come in, and can I subscribe? A: It's available as a 35g or 75g bar, and you can have it delivered regularly as part of Mr Popple's monthly chocolate subscription boxes.
About Our Brand Mr Popple's Chocolate
Most chocolate on the shelf has travelled a long way from anything resembling a cacao bean. Industrial processing strips out the naturally occurring compounds that make cacao genuinely interesting — the mood-lifting, stimulating qualities that are present in the raw bean but largely absent by the time a standard bar reaches you. Mr Popple's was built around a single question: what if you made chocolate that kept all of that intact?
The answer starts in Peru. Mr Popple's sources its cacao from a farmers' cooperative operating within the Amazon Rainforest — not on cleared land adjacent to it, but inside it, where cacao grows as it evolved to. The brand pays directly to the growers at a fair price, which means the people doing the most important work in the supply chain are the ones who benefit from it. The recipes do the rest: no refined sugars, no cheap fats, no palm oil. Ingredients that are there because they belong, not because they are cheap.
What makes Mr Popple's genuinely unusual is the decision not to scale. Most food brands that start with strong ethics find those ethics eroding as volume increases — direct relationships become brokered ones, oversight becomes auditing, care becomes compliance. Mr Popple's has held the line on that deliberately, keeping the operation small enough that every batch reflects a real understanding of where the cacao came from and who grew it. That is not a marketing position. It is a production decision, and it shows in the chocolate.