Nestle to Roll Out Refined Sugar-Free Chocolate this Year

Swiss food and beverage giant announced Tuesday that it plans to introduce a new form of chocolate to the market made completely from cocoa fruit with no added refined sugar. The newly patented product is sweetened with pulp extracted from the cocoa fruit. Nestle said the product matches traditional chocolate’s taste, quality, and texture. 

“We’re proud to bring chocolate lovers a new chocolate made entirely from the cocoa fruit without adding refined sugar,” said Paula Bula, head of strategic business units, marketing, and sales at Nestle, said in a company press release. “This is a real innovation which uses the natural sweetness of the cocoa pulp to provide a pure, novel chocolate experience.”

Cocoa pulp is used in the fermentation of cocoa beans, but is often discarded after that production step. Nestle invented a new process to dry and pulverize cocoa pulp into an ingredient that can be added to chocolate, according to the company. 

The company plans to debut the product in Japan through its KitKat Chocolatory this fall. Additional markets around the world will get a chance to try the new chocolate some time in 2020. 

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