About the Company
Chocolates Garoto is a Brazilian chocolate company that has been making chocolate since 1929 when it was founded by a German immigrant. It is now one of the 10 largest chocolate producers in the world and ships to over 50 countries. It even offers ice cream and popsicle versions of some of its brands.
About the Bar
Talento Line: Introduced in 1993, Garoto’s Talento line initially came in four 100-gram milk chocolate varieties with different fruit and nut inclusions. It now comes in a number of varieties and flavors including a bonbon box featuring hazelnut flavors.
Product Description: For white chocolate fans, Talento has a wonderful option! White chocolate with cereal and raisins! Can you resist?
Ingredients: Sugar, milk, cocoa butter, vegetable oil (palm and/or shea), raisins, nonfat milk, and less than 2% of corn flour, wheat flour, brown sugar, oat flakes, wheat bran, coconut, soy lecithin, malt, polyglycerol polyricinoleic acid, salt, cocoa powder, natural and artificial flavor, beta carotene color.
Review of Chocolate
General Thoughts
I bought this bar in a Brazilian corner grocery in Georgia, USA on a whim with really little understanding of anything about it. White chocolate is not really my preference and convenience store chocolate is not always the best, but I do not often see Brazilian chocolate so thought it would be worth a try.
Sight
The bar is tannish in color, almost a caramelized white chocolate color, with clearly visible inclusions of raisins and cereals embedded into the chocolate.
Sound
The bar has produces a good snap when broken.
Smell
It smells of vanilla and cream which I associate with the traditional smells of white chocolate.
Taste
In terms of taste, the chocolate is quite sweet but does not linger unpleasantly. I expected a raisin taste but did not find that they contributed clearly to the flavor.
Mouthfeel
The chocolate has a very creamy and waxy mouthfeel which is common for white chocolate, but it is also has a hardness that is less common for whites. It melts well except, of course, for the raisin and cereal inclusions. There may be some slight chewiness from the raisins, but they are not clearly expressed. However, the cereal provides a very considerable amount of crunch.
Conclusions
Generally speaking, this bar is not bad at all and has a nice taste, but it is not something I would necessarily go out of my way to get. If you like white chocolate, it could be worth picking up, but there are better white chocolate bars out there.
