When you are surprising someone with a thoughtful gift of flowers and/or chocolates, you want to ensure that your gift choice is going to be appreciated. You want to choose the person’s favourite flowers and colours and you want to choose their favourite type of chocolate. What you really want to avoid doing is sending them a gift that could potentially make them ill!
With more people being diagnosed with food intolerances than ever before, it is worthwhile ensuring that the chocolate that you buy as a gift is catering for those with special dietary needs like gluten intolerances or for diabetics.
If in doubt, make sure that you go with a type of chocolate that caters for all special dietary needs. Here are some confectioners that offer products that are suitable for different types of diets:
Hotel Chocolat
If you look at the famous and popular Hotel Chocolat brand, you can see how versatile chocolate manufacturers are when it comes to providing products that are adapted forpeople’s dietary requirements. The vast Hotel Chocolat range includes chocolate for vegans, vegetarians and chocolate without nuts for people that have nut allergies. Further to this, they provide chocolates made without wheat, Paleo chocolate for people who have a ‘Caveman Diet’ (whole, unprocessed foods) and even chocolate made without dairy products.
Nestle
Hotel Chocolat is not the only company that is committed to taking care of chocolate lovers with particular dietary needs. Nestle publish a set of lists on their website to show which products are suitable for people with allergies or intolerances. Nestle’s strapline is Good Food, Good Life and when you see their website you can see their range of products from chocolate to water is focused on providing healthy options for consumers.
Cadburys
Cadburys also look after their customers, you can filter their products down based on any intolerances or diets including gluten, peanut, nut, wheat, dairy and vegetarian. Filtering down to gluten–free products as an example, you can get the following: Chomp, Crunchie, Curly Wurly, Flake, Turkish Delight, Fudge, Twirl, Wispa and Wispa Gold so they have an extensive set of chocolate bars that are suitable for people with gluten intolerance.
Mars
The brand that brings us Mars, Snickers, Bounty, Maltesers etc. has a website dedicated to providing nutritional information for their products, which includes a section for suitability for diets including halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian and organic. A dark chocolate Bounty for example is suitable for halal, kosher and vegetarian diets, as certified by relevant organisations (Halal Food Authority and London Beth Din). So Mars make it easy for chocolate lovers to find out the suitability of their products for people with dietary needs. Another helpful thing that they do is provide a list of ingredients for each product that highlights allergenic ingredients in bold.
Confectioners have really upped their game to cater for all special dietary needs, so that nobody has to miss out on their chocolate fix. Alternatively, if you are on the prowl for a chocolatey wedding gift, there is a range of Marzipan gift sets to die for:https://www.flowersbuydelivery.co.uk/marzipan-c-73
So if you are looking to treat someone with a lovely chocolate surprise, you have plenty of options for people with special dietary needs.
