August 2023

Organic Berries In A Mix Of Chocolates

Landgarten

I’m a little confused about the name of this candy. What confuses me is the fact that on the package, the word “organic” is in huge writing and the words “mix of chocolates” is in a smaller sized font. This confuses me because as far as I can tell the highlight of this candy is the fact that the berries are covered in a mix of different chocolates. I do agree that this is my opinion, and there are some people out there who are very concerned about using organic foods. I feel like it’s important to mention, but the way they presented these pieces of fruit in different chocolates is kind of revolutionary to me.

This company could have gone two other ways when dealing with the chocolate choice. The simplest would have been to choose one kind of chocolate and simply cover all or the fruit in the same chocolate. This would have been okay, but not as amazing as these. Instead these fine folks paired a chocolate with a different fruit. I feel like each fruit works with the various chocolates chosen. By balancing these berry flavours with each chocolate, no one berry outshines the other. Instead you get a wonderful collection of flavours in each package. It also didn’t hurt because once I figured out which chocolate housed which berries, I was able to pick and choose berries as I pleased.

This takes me to the other way they could have handled these, by simply randomly covering the berries in random chocolate. This might have worked in that I would get to explore which chocolate and berry combination worked best, but it wouldn’t have guaranteed that I would have found the best combination. I feel like the folks at Landgarten did this work for me, and presented me their favourite, and possibly the best choices.

If I was to fault these, I would say it’s the fact that there doesn’t seem to be one whole berry in the entire bunch. Each freeze dried berry is really just a piece of a berry. That may have been done to balance the flavour, but occasionally I kind of wished the pieces were a little bit bigger, and maybe full berries.