cocoa content

[Dansak]

How important is cocoa content to you in a chocolate bar? I find that Cadbury and Nestle do not use enough cocoa and rely too much on flavourings and sugar. In the last few years dark chocolate has become more popular and there's now a good range of high cocoa content chocolate from the likes of Lindt, G&B, and supermarket own brands, and Cadbury have brought out a 60% Bournville (normal Bournville is only 40%).

Anyway I find some of Cadbury's offerings quite offensive and cheap - Buttons contain 20% cocoa solids for example, and they don't taste particularly chocolatey either.

[Cherry_Ripe]

Very important. I don't buy them if they are high in cocoa because I find them too bitter. So I go for ones with lower cocoa content.

[smurfboy]

I like high cocoa content in milk chocolate if it's just a slab, but if it's a filled bar I'm not so bothered - the filling takes over.

[oldspice]

Yes, I agree. I like creamy milk chocolate but I don't like it too sweet. I am going off dark chocolate because I find it a bit bitter - but I love it if it has a good filling. I don't look at the cocoa content.

[Logger]

I couldn't care less about cocoa content, only the taste of the bar. 

I do try to find higher content ones in the tablet form like Smurfy (not 99% though, it tastes like dirt).

In bars with other ingredients it is the combination of flavours that counts.

Generally though, plain chocolate is my preference.