Chocolate and cocoa products

Yenzo has checked 5 products in this group, from Beatitude, Lindt, Morinaga and 2 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “sô cô la, cacao”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — 1 from label photos checked by Yenzo and 4 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 4 are rated “Sometimes” and 1 “Moderate”. Across these 5 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is sugar (5 of 5 products), followed by energy density (5) and saturated fat (4). The ratings compare chocolate and cocoa products with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.