Diet Food Reviews

Dove Beautiful Milk Chocolate

By: Delia L | Nov 12, 2009

I like to eat chocolate for its taste, not for any added nutritional value, so when I saw the skin-nourishing vitamin and cocoa flavanol claims on Dove Beautiful Milk Chocolate in the store, I very dubious. The curved box-like packaging was more reminiscent of a beauty product, which is what Dove is known for - that made me question this even more, but I was totally intrigued. There is a lot of text on the front of the box describing all its virtues, but the tiniest print tells the consumer to look at the nutrition facts for info on fat content - that is a clue as to what's in store.

I love the sweet and creamy taste of the chocolate. It was delicious and didn't taste as though it was nutritionally enhanced. It's small enough to be bite-sized but large enough to be savored.

A serving of 5 pieces of chocolate provides 220 calories and a whopping 40% of the daily value for saturated fat, along with 22 grams of sugars. The chocolate provides 10% of the daily value for vitamin C, calcium, vitamin E, niacin, biotin, and zinc - do you think that makes up for all that saturated fat? I think not!