It's completely different from chocolate. Introducing the KALDI "Sugar Coat Cacao Nibs", which has an attractive texture.

Sugar coat cacao nibs

Cacao nibs are roasted cocoa beans with the exodermis and germ removed. Generally, it is sold in chips as a confectionery material.

This product is a sugar-coated whole cacao nibs. The price was 292 yen (tax included) with 30g (1.06oz) in a pouch.



Black cocoa beans and mottled white sugar coat. It looks like Amanatto.


Crispy texture when chewed. The fragrant bitterness, bean flavor, and slight sweetness of the sugar coating spread. It has a chocolate-like scent, but the taste is not chocolate at all. It's more like a snack than a sweet candy, and in a nutshell, it's like "a bean candy with bitterness as the main character."


However, the more you chew, the stronger the flavor and the more sour the taste, and I think people who like it will like it. At the same time, I was impressed by the wonderful processing technology in between, "Is this chocolate?" No, this isn't bad either, but I was surprised at the magnitude of the change, like when I saw Before & After with good makeup.

Chocolate that I usually eat casually. Cacao nibs in a state close to that material, once you taste it, your eyes on chocolate may change a little.