Healthier nuts for chocolate

It is widely known that consumers are becoming increasingly health conscious, and this is being highlighted in the types of chocolate they are purchasing. Requests for chocolate with fewer calories or healthier inclusions are growing. Therefore, it is good news that recent research has revealed the almonds contain 20% less calories than previously thought.

I am sure many manufacturers will cash in on this research by introducing new healthier products containing almond inclusions. However, for manufacturers who already have almonds in their products, does this mean a costly change in calorie information on product labelling? In due course, labelling will of course have to change so that consumers are not misled, but it is likely to be a significant amount of time before these changes are enforced.

In the future it seems likely that we will be seeing labels highlighting the fact that a product contains almonds, as well as all of the related micronutrients.