Green and Black's

Green & Black’s is now widely available across the USA. You will find our products in Whole Foods, Wild Oats and Target stores nationally.

You will also find Green & Black’s in natural food stores and the natural foods section of most major supermarkets. To find a specific store close to you please use our zip code store locator.

Yes and they are all certified by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), one of the leading organic certification bodies in the USA. The USDA implements the NOP standards for organic products. All our products meet these standards thus offering consumers a guarantee that the food they have purchased has been produced and processed to strict and rigorous environmental standards. All organic farms and food companies are inspected at least once a year to ensure the standards continue to be met. For more information, visit www.CCOF.org.

Maya Gold was the first product ever to be awarded the UK fair trade mark in 1994. Today our entire Maya Gold range carries the fair trade mark which is administered in the US by Transfair USA. The mark is the consumer’s guarantee that the growers of the ingredients used in the product have been paid a fair price for their crops. For more information on fair trade, visit www.transfairusa.org

Green & Black’s chocolate recipe book, “Unwrapped,” (Kyle Cathie, $19.99) is available in most good book shops across the US, including Borders and Barnes & Noble. It is also available online at Amazon.com.

The book contains 100 chocolate recipes with ideas ranging from decadent desserts to savory dishes with a twist. It also contains great information about how our company was started, how the cocoa for our products is sourced, and how our chocolate is made.

A selection of the recipes available in the book are also available online.

All of our products are suitable for vegetarians.

While some of our chocolate is made without nuts, our products are produced in a factory which handles nut ingredients, and so unfortunately we cannot guarantee that any of our products is totally nut-free.

Our products contain varying amounts of fat. The fat we use in our chocolate is the cocoa butter which occurs naturally in cocoa beans, a plant source.

You can find a full break down of the fat content of each product within the What We Make page of our website. Simply click on the picture of the product you are interested in and then go to the Nutrition information link. If you can’t find what you’re looking for then please contact us.

Chocolate should be kept in a cool, dark place, with a temperature of less than 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Chocolate absorbs other flavors so be sure to store it away from other strong odors.

Some people like to keep their chocolate in the refrigerator which is also fine, but always store it in a Tupperware box or sealed plastic bag – again, to ensure it doesn’t become tainted by strong flavors from other foods in the fridge.

We are proud of our range and take our product quality very seriously. On the odd occasion, over-fermented cocoa beans can enter the supply chain, which can give the chocolate a slightly damp, musty taste. If this is the case or for another reason you have not been completely happy with one of our products, we want to hear from you so we can do something about it. Click here to contact our customer services team, who will make sure you are a satisfied consumer of chocolate!

Yes, chocolate is a source of antioxidants. Many of our products are dark chocolate which has higher cocoa solids content, but even our milk chocolate has 34% cocoa solids. This compares to the average milk chocolate which is around 20%. The reason we use such a high cocoa content in our products is because of the intense flavor it delivers to our chocolate.

Although some of our products are made without nut, cereal or milk ingredients, they are produced in a factory that handles them. We take all precautions to minimize the risks of cross contamination with these ingredients.

We take into account scheduling of products and we clean the lines by flushing chocolate through until there is no notable trace of the previous lines’ chocolate in the new batch. We are confident that the cleaning procedures are robust and eliminate traces of nut, cereal or dairy ingredients, but the only certain guarantee of absence is by manufacturing in a nut, cereal and dairy free site. Therefore we use the above statement to ensure consumers are fully informed about our products.

Specifically, our chocolate is made in a factory that does not handle peanuts. However, the factory handles five types of nut - Brazil nuts, Almonds, Hazelnuts, Cashew and Pistachio nuts.

For more information please check the link to product ingredient facts.