| Name↕ | Cacao↕ | Carb↕ | of which Sugars↕ | Fat↕ | of which Sat.↕ | Fiber↕ | % Sat.↕ | Pro↕ | Salt↕ | Brand↕ | Kcal↕ |
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💡 Carbs: the "carbohydrate" figure as printed on the label. In France and the EU that figure already excludes fiber, so there is no need to subtract it again.
📊 A higher cocoa % does not guarantee less sugar: Poulain 47% has more sugar (52g) than Nestlé Dessert (46.4g), but a very different profile. High cocoa (90-95%) makes sugar drop sharply, while between 40 and 55% the gap is much smaller.
🍫🥔 Chocolate vs potato chips: gram for gram, Poulain 47% (508 kcal, 28g fat) is in fact slightly lower in calories and fat than a bag of organic potato chips (545 kcal, 34g fat), but with far more sugar and far less salt. Two very different profiles for a similar calorie count.
⚠️ Careful with the saturated % taken alone: potato chips show a very low share of saturated fat (~9%, frying oil that is mostly unsaturated), well below any dark chocolate on this page. That does not make them a "better" food: the figure says nothing about salt (1.65g against 0.01 to 0.3g for chocolate), the degree of processing, the quality of the frying oil, or the polyphenols and minerals the cocoa brings. One number never replaces the whole picture.