"If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit you can no longer join our Club or pick up a Penguin, as the lunchbox favourites have reduced the amount of cocoa in their recipe so much they are now only chocolate flavour. The two snacks, both made by McVitie's, changed their recipes earlier this year amid soaring cocoa prices which have prompted manufacturers to try a number of different tactics to keep prices down."
"Club and Penguin can no longer be described as chocolate biscuits as they contain more palm oil and shea oil than cocoa, as first reported by the trade journal The Grocer. We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals, the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement."
McVitie's Club and Penguin biscuits have had their recipes altered to reduce cocoa content so significantly that they are now described as 'chocolate flavour' rather than chocolate biscuits. The reformulation increases usage of palm oil and shea oil relative to cocoa and uses a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass instead of a chocolate coating. Consumer sensory testing reportedly shows similar taste to the originals. The changes respond to sharply higher cocoa prices driven by poor harvests in Ghana and Ivory Coast and broader climate-related weather disruptions, prompting manufacturers to downsize products or cut cocoa content to limit price increases for shoppers.
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