Milk chocolate

Asda Extra Special Peruvian Milk Chocolate

100g, £1.50, asda.com
Melts very easily. Smooth with quite caramelly notes. It’s thin. Quite nice; not too sweet. This is my favourite.
★★★★

Tony’s Chocolonely Milk Chocolate

180g, £3.98, tonyschocolonely.com
Very chunky. It’s kind of biscuity – quite a crumbly texture. I think I prefer something thinner. Brown-sugary notes. Nice flavour, I just don’t like the thickness.
★★★

Pierre Marcolini Milk Chocolate Tablet

63g, £7, eu.marcolini.com
Quite different to the rest. Like it’s got more cocoa... there’s a carob-y taste. I like the size of it. Very different texture in your mouth, more like a crumbly fudge. I don’t love it.
★★

Waitrose 1 Milk Chocolate

85g, £1.60, waitrose.com
Not as flavoursome as the others; a bit more delicate. It seems like it has more dairy, it’s very creamy. Kind of blah.
★★

Salted milk chocolate

Rococo Sea Salt Organic 40% Cocoa Milk Chocolate

70g, £5.95, rococochocolates.com
Smooth creamy texture with subtle caramel cocoa tones and strong bursts of sea salt. I want more!
★★★★★

Co-op Irresistible Single Origin Milk Chocolate with Toffee & Himalayan Salt

100g, £1.60, coop.co.uk
Salt is the overriding flavour. I’m not sure I would be able to eat that much. The chocolate is quite good, it melts nicely in your mouth. Smooth, too.
★★★

Tony’s Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Caramel Sea Salt

180g, £3.98, tonyschocolonely.com
It’s really personal but I don’t like thick bars. It’s quite sweet; not that salty, more buttery. The caramel bits are nice – not a deep caramel taste, it’s quite light – but they get wedged in the back of your teeth which I’m not sure I like.
★★★

Waitrose 1 Milk Chocolate With Feuilletine & Sea Salt

85g, £1.60, waitrose.com
It has biscuity pieces that taste like ... cornflakes? The crunchy texture is very distracting.
I don’t like this.
★

Fruit and nut chocolate

Marks & Spencer Swiss Fruit & Nut Bar

150g, £2, marksandspencer.com
I like that the skin is on the nuts. It’s got a good crunch. There is definitely more of a nutty flavour to this bar. I like this the most.
★★★

Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut

200g, £2, ocado.com
It tastes very sweet, and it’s definitely the milkiest-tasting. I think I can tell where this is from, because it’s a classic, isn’t it? It’s got its place.
★★

Asda Fruit & Nut Milk Chocolate

200g, £1, asda.com
I got a massive almond, nice and crisp. But it’s quite a sweet chocolate and I imagine if you get a raisin it’s going to be extra, extra sweet.
Quite a chunky chocolate. Creamy.
★

Waitrose Belgian Milk Chocolate with Raisins & Almonds

200g, £1.62, waitrose.com
Raisin-heavy - there’s a lot of raisins and not so many nuts … I’m not so fond of this. Really sugary chocolate and the amount ofraisins makes it feel sweeter.
★

Dark chocolate

Lindt Excellence 85% Cocoa Dark

100g, £1.99, ocado.com
Clean, crisp. Well balanced, strong, lingering cocoa flavour with very light floral notes. I recognise this. I think it’s something I’ve eaten a lot before, dipped into fennel tea.
★★★★★

Moser Roth Dark 85% Cocoa

125g, £1.39, aldi.co.uk
Good texture; it melts quite slowly. It’s a little cloying in my mouth but it has a nice aftertaste. It has a dark berry flavour and a flavour like the tannins in wine in wine. I like the intensity of this.
★★★★

Morrisons The Best 85% Cocoa Dark Chocolate

100g, £1.40, morrisons.com
This is very fruity, there is a red berry flavour – initially at least. The texture is quite nice, smooth.
★★★

Co-op Irresistible Single Origin 85% Cocoa Dark Chocolate

100g, £1.60, coop.co.uk
Quite delicate. It’s crisp and it’s got a good bite to it. You could eat more of this as it’s not so intense. I can’t taste many underlying flavours.
★★★

Mint chocolate

Asda Extra Special Mint Dark Chocolate Mint

100g, £1.50, asda.com
Has a nice aftertaste, it feels refreshing, but not overly sweet. It’s bold, with a strong flavour, which is what I think I am looking for in a mint chocolate.
★★★

Moser Roth Mint

125g, £1.39, aldi.co.uk
It has a light mint flavour – I think if I’m going to eat mint chocolate, I’d rather taste it more. Really delicate.
★★

Morrisons The Best Fairtrade 52% Cocoa Mint Dark Chocolate

100g, £1.40, morrisons.com
It’s not very flavoursome but I like the thickness and the chocolate melts nicely. Tastes more spearminty.
★★

Chocolate and Love 67% Dark Chocolate & Mint Crunch

80g, £3.50, ocado.com
It has crunchy brown-sugary pieces of mint, and is a thicker chocolate. It’s overwhelmed by the texture. I’m not sold.

★

White chocolate

Willie’s Cacao El Blanco Venezuelan 00 White Chocolate

50g, £1.90, ocado.com
Subtle vanilla notes. A nice balance of sweetness with a chalky, firm texture.
★★★★

Waitrose 1 White Chocolate

85g, £1.60, waitrose.com
It tastes like there’s a bit of salt, which is good as it balances the sweetness. Melts nicely. Very sweet though – a caramelly salty flavour.
★★★

Moser Roth Madagascan Vanilla

125g, £1.39, aldi.co.uk
Very creamy. It has a familiar white chocolate flavour – more like a Milkybar.
★★★

Marks & Spencer White Chocolate with Vanilla

100g, £2, marksandspencer.com
I like the thinness. I can really taste the vanilla. Other than that, the only flavour is … sweet.
★★

All products are blind-tested