this process has been cultivated by one of the world best chocolate makers to be a fruit forward chocolate. “Many chocolate brands are releasing single origin chocolates whereby the cocoa beans come from one specific place/region and in some cases, one specific plantation. They come from the Ruby cocoa beans, apparently. What might be interesting is to try just ruby cocoa powder, the powder of the beans, without the addition or manipulation of other ingredients. There has been talk of a vegan variety of ruby chocolate in the future but nothing is available at the moment. Something different. I know none here in France, and its virtue of preserve color doesn’t seem very strong for me, even if it could be one justification of its use. To me it does actually taste different to white chocolate (I did get a higher end white chocolate just to compare if maybe somehow all these years I’ve been eating bad white chocolate). Germany's Jacobs University in Bremen cooperated in the development. First of all, white chocolate does not contain cocoa solids. I like it, though ‘dark milk’ will always be my favourite! No flavouring or colour is added. 20% coco butter, 14% milk solids, 3.5% milk fat etc. Sam, The data point missing here is both the usually brown flavorful non fat cocoa solids and the cocoa butter (fatty cocoa solids) are considered cocoa solids, both being solid at room temperature. It don’t taste like Dairy Milk,it’s more fatty taste than chocolate. The chocolate type is made from the Ruby cocoa bean, resulting in a distinct red colour and a different flavour, described as "sweet yet sour". I ask then one question, after reading all the debate : do you know one single chocolate that has citric acid on its composition ? It simply refers to cocoa beans who are USED to create Ruby chocolate. Callebaut’s Ruby RB1 owes its colour and specific taste solely to the expert selection and meticulous processing of the ruby beans – no fruit flavouring or colourants are added to the chocolate. Callebaut’s Ruby RB1 owes its colour and specific taste solely to the expert selection and meticulous processing of the ruby beans – no fruit flavouring or colourants are added to the chocolate. This gift of mother nature surprises and bedazzles with a completely new color and taste experience, born from the ruby Exposure to light changes the color to an unappetizing gray. The ingredients in a bar of Ruby chocolate that I bought in the Netherlands are the exact same as the ingredients in a bar of milk chocolate. Thanks for exposing the ploy that this is. Something that does appeal t more than my sense of taste. Real Chocolate contains several types of antioxidants and stimulants. So now it’s a matter of what I don’t expect: I don’t expect an orgasmic experience. As only the one company (callebaut) makes one variety of couverture ruby chocolate it’s not vegan. Born from the ruby cocoa bean it has a natural pink colour without the addition of any colourants or fruit flavourings. I’m not really a super big Ruby fan, but this article is pretty misinformed. "Scientists just invented a brand new flavour of chocolate", "And RUBY Makes Four – A New Flavor and Color Join the Chocolate Family", "Ruby Chocolate: Where to Buy It & What It Is", "Barry Callebaut reveals the fourth type in chocolate: Ruby", "Swiss confectioners devise fourth chocolate type: ruby", "Ruby Chocolate Is Coming: FDA Issues Temporary Permit", "Swiss confectioners invent a new kind of chocolate for the first time in 80 years", "Ruby chocolate: New gem in confectionery crown or pink misfit? [19][20] Nestlé, the manufacturers of Kit Kat, entered into an agreement with Barry Callebaut for exclusive use of the product for six months. the kitkat aside. There’s not a newly discovered variety of cocoa bean called ruby and the marketing around this product is misleading. Look at the claims and all is not what it seams with ruby chocolate. It was a big let down. This refers to a cocoa bean that has been processed to make ruby chocolate. [16] Kennedy's Confection magazine editor Angus Kennedy disputes that ruby chocolate is a new fourth variety and compared the taste to a combination of white chocolate and raspberries. My guess is that if the flavor were truly good and interesting, that would be available. Just my experience. Everyone has tried fruit flavoured white chocolate, ruby doesn’t NEED to have added fruit or flavourings/colours to look and taste like that, it’s done JUST with chocolate so it is a new TYPE of chocolate, not a new cacao bean, but definitely a new type of chocolate. Various other confectionery companies have released ruby chocolate-based products including: Šeremet, D., Mandura, A., Vojvodić Cebin, A., Oskomić, M., Champion, E., Martinić, A., & Komes, D. (2019). DJURDJICA, Difficult to respond to your only negative comments, though I do agree with most of them. Origin United States — Gluten Free, Kosher D, Fair Trade Chocolate, & All Natural Ingredients. “Ruby is made from a rare cocoa bean found only in Ecuador, Ivory Coast, and Brazil. Ruby chocolate has none of the deep cacao taste you expect of chocolate, indicating it hasn’t been fermented to develop the complex flavour tones. [5][11] These are existing botanical cocoa bean varieties that have been identified as having the right attributes to be processed into ruby chocolate. Some people think ruby chocolate is fake, just a flavored cocoa butter or colored fat, just one big conspiracy to bring … Its unique taste and colour invite you to create unique pairings and explore new ideas for confectionery, pastries and desserts. It does qualify as a niche product, so I can’t say I’d REPLACE my regular chocolate recipes with it. Personally I don’t think there’s a huge amount of difference in zero or 2% just to add a natural colour, but we all have different opinions on that. Get over yourselves, people. No need to be rude or condescending. The purple colour is usually lost after fermenting so a change in this process could retain the purple colour that becomes pink once mixed into the final ruby chocolate. $20.00 Amara Unique Venezuelan Flavors. I agree with Bastian. I agree with you. That being said, I would agree that the whole concept is a kind of bougie fad (with the kitkat version most likely being a cheap cash-in). However there’s more to it than just an acidic taste, and it’s more than just the color fooling your palate. if you actually knew about chocolate you’d know that even dark chocolates, depending on how they are made, can have a very fruit forward flavor. A friend brought an XOXO Ruby Chocolate bar over last night to try after dinner. Is it a new type of chocolate? Non fat solids are where you get the chocolate aroma and the color in dark or milk chocolate. That development in turn led to the discovery of this particular cocoa bean and creation of a totally new chocolate. Ruby NOT. Although everyone has a right to own’s opinion, it is very dangerous to speek about something you know nothing about – because, frankly, that is what you do with this article. Ruby chocolate has been dubbed the 4th chocolate after dark, milk and white by it’s creators. I think it’s quite nice. I’m not a fan of white chocolate, and this definitely has more cacao mass than white chocolate, although not as much as milk chocolate. A Barry Callebaut spokesperson told us ruby – like milk, dark and white chocolate – is created using existing botanical cocoa bean varieties. The composition of this ruby stuff would therefore be much more analogous to milk chocolate. II’m reading this article over a year later and wanted to toss in my 2 cents. To achieve a perfectly balanced and round taste, we blend cocoa beans from 3 different countries of origin: Ivory Coast, Ghana and Ecuador. What I’m saying is the addition of citric acid that’s giving the fruity flavour, rather than anything naturally contained in the chocolate. If enough ppl like it, it will stick around. Real Chocolate is very shelf stable. My opinion is based on the ingredients and speaking to several other people that work professionally in the area. Millennial pink: From iPhone to Rihanna. [15][12], It has been debated by chocolate experts whether ruby chocolate constitutes a new variety of chocolate or if it is a marketing strategy. So yes, a very marketing story, nothing special for chocolate lovers. But that is pretty much how anything “new” goes. Rachel you sound misinformed. So, here you have some people that also do not know anything about chocolate production and choose to believe you unaware of your missleading… You may like ruby chocolate or not, but to state that it is fake, you should have a lot knowledge in the field…. The claim of 47% percent cocoa solids does not acknowledge that EU regs count cocoa butter as a cocoa solid so only under 10% of the flavorful non fat cocoa solids are included Less than even Hershey’s Milk Chocolate. ", "New ruby chocolate isn't special and probably tastes bad, says NZ expert", "A chocolate expert explains what Ruby chocolate is and what it tastes like", "Ruby Chocolate Wants a Place at the Table With Dark, Milk and White", "Nestle to launch ruby chocolate KitKat in Asia", "Nestle is making a pink KitKat from ruby chocolate", "KitKat to release naturally pink 'ruby chocolate' bars", "Weltneuheit für Europa: Nestlé produziert KitKat Ruby in Hamburg", "Our moms deserve a break from the ordinary, because they always make us feel like we're anything but ordinary. Hi there, I’m not saying that the added ingredient citric acid isn’t natural as of course it is. "Cocoa" generally refers to chocolate in a powdered form, although it can also be a British form of "cacao." … From what I can gather, you haven’t actually tried the ruby chocolate (not the kitkat one), which makes it difficult to be swayed by your very strong opinions based on… conjecture. $30.85 Equal Exchange Organic Dark Hot Chocolate, 12 … The color and berry fruitiness are naturally present in the ruby cocoa beans, reflecting the choice of name,” she tells me. Ruby chocolate is more real of a chocolate than that so called white chocolate. It is marketed as the "fourth" type of chocolate alongside dark, milk, and whitechocolate varieties and is notable for its natural pink col… We roam far and wide searching for the finest ingredients and often find inspiration in our backyards. A patent from the makers of ruby chocolate indicates less processing is involved. Red / purple cocoa powder isn’t a new invention and has been around for a long time. After people learn that it’s gimmicky, let them decide for themselves if they would like to try it or not. I concur that ruby chocolate is fake because it’s not a 4th type of chocolate. No, but no rational person argues milk or white chocolate is a scam because they only require new processing methods and preferential selection of previously known bean types, not new breeds of bean. That make sit inherently different from white chocolate. Ruby chocolate is made from ruby beans, a type of botanical cocoa bean. I wanna know when they’re gonna bring out chocolate blocks of Ruby, like the other chocolates have, they won’t cos theyll have to add flavour to it to make it palatable and there goes the whole charade up in smoke. The variety was in development from 2004, and was released to the public in 2017. The innovator and industry standard Callebaut produces a 33% Couverture Ruby Chocolate with no flavorings or colorings. Neither genus or origin determine the qualification for a cocoa bean to be a ruby bean. If the article’s purpose is to state that r.c is nothing new, and just gimmicky chocolate we’ve always had, then it should do that. DJURDJICA, Difficult to respond to your only negative comments, though I do agree with most of them. Ruby is the biggest innovation in chocolate in 80 years. Hi there, yes I’ve had fresh slimy cocoa beans and cocoa beans fermented with the white fleshy bit. Made from the ruby cocoa bean, which thrives in cacao growing countries like Brazil, Ecuador and Ivory Coast, it’s a completely new experience. Let us have our 4th kind of chocolate and be able to say “what a time to be alive!”, Emily, after reading the rest of the arguments left here, I gotta hand it to you. Ruby chocolate is a variety of chocolate introduced in 2017 by Barry Callebaut, a Belgian–Swiss cocoa company. This beautiful chocolate from the ruby cocoa bean has a completely new taste and color experience. I’ll be buying more in the future . When an artificial flavour is created they spend more time on the aroma than the actual flavour as the smell is interpreted by the brain and does significantly change the flavour. Hope that helps. Kit kat chocolate strawberry 12 bars 1 bags Japan import 3.9 out of 5 stars 298 $11.50 $ 11. I’m saying it doesn’t qualify as a new type of chocolate and is more a marketing thing. This gift of mother nature surprises and bedazzles with a completely new color and taste experience, born from the ruby I made a mousse with it, and the ruby chocolate discs from World Wide Chocolate. At least this ruby chocolate actually comes from the bean. You clearly do not have a slightest idea what “cocoa solids” are and this is part of basics of chocolate technology. Claiming that citric acid is a ‘”natural” ingredient is incorrect. The ruby cocoa bean thrives in cocoa growing countries like Brazil, Ecuador, and Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cocoa beans. Schiller, L.J. The berry taste was interesting, but nothing spectacular. I 100% agree Bastian that 2% cocoa powder in ruby chocolate is virtually nothing. It’s made by one company that’s very secretive and lots of the press around ruby chocolate has been misleading. Barry Callebaut is able to identify the Ruby beans containing the right set of attributes. No need to get so worked up over it (unless it’s ridiculously overpriced compared to white chocolate). Then I noticed quickly that the only ruby chocolate products available were ones with low cocoa solids count–much like milk chocolate. The story of chocolate, which started with ancient civilisations in Central America, saw new chapters written with the introduction of milk chocolate in 1819 and white chocolate in 1936. Origin United States — Gluten Free, Kosher D, Fair Trade Chocolate, & All Natural Ingredients. They first had the idea for it way back in 2004 but did … Regular chocolate is made from fermented cocoa … Cocoa Mass contains 50-55% fat SOLIDS and 45-50% non fat SOLIDS. Yes, because a new process has been developed to create a new chocolate product, it looks different, tastes different and some versions have the addition of a common and perfectly natural (ie not designed in a lab, discovered in fruit) kitchen ingredient, citric acid, I dare any of you to eat a bowl of citric acid and then come back and tell us all how it tasted exactly like berries, and not say lemons. The ruby kit kat is widely available in Tesco stores across the UK and has had a very mixed reception. Hi there, if you think I’m wrong please do say exactly why? The cocoa bean or simply cocoa (/ ˈ k oʊ. In the end, who really cares? Ruby offers an intense sensorial delight, a totally new taste experience: neither bitter, milky or sweet, but a tension of fresh berry fruitiness and luscious smoothness. I thought it would be interesting to talk about it as couldn’t see anywhere exposing it for what it actually is – marketing. #HappyMothersDaypic.twitter.com/Na3XbARYbQ", "Ruby chocolate is now available in the U.S. and Canada", "Costa's Ruby Cocoa Hot Chocolate Will Take Your Instagram To The Next Level", "Häagen-Dazs Has All New, Limited-Edition Ruby Cacao Ice Creams For V-Day", "Magnum ice cream receives a Ruby makeover", "Harry & David's Ruby Cacao Chocolate Collection Is A Millennial Pink Valentine Dream", "Starbucks bringt eine neue Frappuccino-Kreation › FM Online", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_chocolate&oldid=995599120, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 December 2020, at 22:49. Marketing over innovation. There are no colorants or flavorings used. I tried it for many times and I’m cook, trained in tasting and smelling.Maybe they have developed a trick for flavouring, and I don’t mean the synthetic kitkat with that. You can buy plain Ruby bars from loads of places… just google it. I’ve only tried the KitKat. And it’s probably going to die out anyway if the color changes to gray so quickly. In your own article you have referenced the fact that this ruby chocolate contains, at minimum, 47% cocoa solids (which I don’t think you would consider a “tiny amount”). Your other sensory functions of look and smell also affect the taste, weird but true. [1] The variety had been in development since 2004, and in 2015, the product was patented by Dumarche et al. I have found the best way to decide whether I like something is to try it. Bonjour everyone, I am very convinced by Bastien argument. The beans used for dark chocolate are also often selected on their flavour notes. I barely know anything about chocolate, but going off what the comments say and the article (because, no, I’m not going to research about chocolate) ruby chocolate, and white chocolate are both chocolate. White chocolate doesn’t include cocoa liquor and is made only from the cocoa butter portion of the bean and because it doesn’t contain cocoa liquor that’s why it’s white. Required fields are marked *, Ruby Chocolate Ingredients (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed. And I suggest you to do this simple blind test: one common white chocolate with a drop of lemon juice, compared to the “ruby” chocolate. Origin & Ingredients. The variety had been in development since 2004, and in 2015 the product was patented by Dumarche et al. Ruby chocolate is made from ruby beans, a type of botanical cocoa bean. Experts have speculated, however, and one of the most commonly accepted theories is that ruby chocolate is made from unfermented cocoa beans. It’s definitely not white chocolate. This gift of mother nature surprises and bedazzles with a completely new chocolate taste and colour experience, born from the ruby cocoa bean without adding any colourants or fruit flavourings. Terroir is not likely the key contributor to obtaining pink-colored chocolate. That development in turn led to the discovery of this particular cocoa bean and creation of a totally new chocolate. Ruby offers an intense sensorial delight, a totally new taste experience: neither bitter, milky or sweet, but a tension of fresh berry fruitiness and luscious smoothness. [13][12][14] Barry Callebaut registered a patent in 2009 for "cocoa-derived material" from unfermented cocoa beans (or beans fermented for no more than three days) that become red or purple after treating them with an acid, such as citric acid, and then defatting with petroleum ether. This is why you have a lot of single estate dark chocolates – despite having similar cocoa percentages they all taste distinctly different. I have no idea how you could ever think there could be a new type of chocolate if you define chocolate to mean exactly what already exits and no different. It’s certainly not a healthy product as it’s the main ingredient is refined sugar. I have 20 years experience buying cacao and making chocolate and as far as I am concern ruby stuff isn’t any type of chocolate, only a marketing ploy by Callebaut to misappropriate centuries if not millennia of good will and mystique of real chocolate. It was unveiled at a private event in Shanghai on 5 September, 2017. I had one from here: https://www.guppyschocolates.co.uk/ruby-chocolate-bar.html The ingredients are sugar, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier: soya lecithin, acid: citric acid, natural vanilla flavouring. I can’t believe that it’s is only a trick of the brain to imagine the fruity taste. Callebaut Ruby chocolate, the 4th type of chocolate! Kitkat jumping on the Ruby chocolate bandwagon is a marketing ploy, like you say. https://www.guppyschocolates.co.uk/ruby-chocolate-bar.html, https://damecacao.com/tasting-ruby-chocolate-where-to-buy/. The single-origin cocoa trend continues to propel innovations and new product developments in the industry. But after reading the entire article and the comment section I’m disappointed. Real Chocolate contains several types of antioxidants and stimulants. this is a legit new type of chocolate, not a marketing ploy. Are you saying they are lying on the packaging (and have been for many years) saying white chocolate contains cocoa solids? Ruby NOT. Works for me because I’m allergic to cocoa. Oh well. Ruby cocoa beans are made from the same regular cocoa beans. I’m looking at all the angry comments here, and I’m not sure whether to laugh or be sad that some people are so incapable of having a mature discussion. [8][3] In a comparison of the phenolic content between varieties of chocolate, ruby chocolate was rated between milk and white chocolate. As it is, the amount of fat and sugar added to the currently available percentages, along with the boost citric acid provides, imparts a mild but ultimately not-that-exciting flavor. “white chocolate, it is fake. Where is this XOXO brand – all I get is a clothing brand when I search. I’ve found an XoXo brand ruby chocolate bar that does not contain citric acid, and it has a very mild berry flavor, but otherwise is quite similar to white chocolate – sweet and creamy. Callebaut’s cocoa experts discovered that components of certain cocoa beans could produce a chocolate with an exceptional flavor and color. It is made from coco butter. Is a new type bean? Cocoa solids are what are left after the cocoa butter has been extracted. Read the bars wrap (cocoa percentage, origin), choose craft, handmade, artisan, bean-to-bar or small batch and pay attention to the ingredients. This jibes with your claim that the true flavor of less-fermented ruby chocolate is rather uninteresting. Real Chocolate is very shelf stable. If you think it’s fake, fine. According to Callebaut’s website, the ruby beans’ origin is from Brazil, Ecuador and Ivory Coast . The “ruby” beans are grown in the Ivory Coast, Ecuador and Brazil, and Boone confirmed they were entirely natural and not genetically modified. (2019). Something that’s not disgusting. Born from the ruby cocoa bean, ruby RB1 chocolate does not contain any added colourants or fruit flavourings. 100% fake as it does not come from the cocoa bean. I didn’t really taste much of a berry flavour. I agree. Your response seems a bit odd, since Rachel is highlighting the fact that white chocolate contains *zero* cocoa solids. The ruby cocoa bean thrives in cacao growing countries like Brazil, Ecuador and Ivory Coast. Cocoa butter does come from the cocoa bean when the beans are ground up, they are separated into 2 parts cocoa liquor(or solids) & cocoa butter. There has been speculation in the industry that unfermented cocoa beans are used to make ruby chocolate. To achieve a perfectly balanced and round taste, we blend cocoa beans from 3 different countries of origin: Ivory Coast, Ghana and Ecuador. Before you buy into this “new chocolate” there are some important things to note. It occurs to me, since I love a very mild milk chocolate, that I could create a similar confection just by melting down milk chocolate with white chocolate. The cocoa beans are sourced from different regions of the world. Sign up for the Top Pick Of The Week newsletter to have a top food review and recipe e-mailed to you. It’s possible that a acid was used in early processing and therefore wasn’t included as an ingredient. 50. Interesting article! If something seems too good to be true it usually is,,, scam. It just simply doesn’t have the chocolate flavor that milk or dark chocolate has which you get with a longer fermentation. When I first heard of ruby chocolate, I was so excited! 4.6 out of 5 stars 268. THE NIBBLE, Great Food Finds, is an online gourmet food magazine with 1000+ product reviews including gourmet chocolate, plus informative articles. Total marketing ploy. The bean has a specific set of attributes, which Barry Callebaut managed to unlock through an innovative process that took many years to develop. Cocoa beans grow in a purple pod and when unprocessed they have a purple tint. Bitch clearly eats too much chocolate, stopped actually tasting real food years ago, can’t even taste citric acid because of the shite that’s filling her brain and speed out her mouth, a berry kinda flavour, your kinda an idiot . Why don’t you explain why it isn’t if you are so knowledgeable DJURDJICA? Ruby has an intense fruitiness and fresh, sour notes. But Callebaut has not been as open regarding the origin of ruby chocolate’s other ingredients: cocoa butter, sugar, citric acid, and milk powder, as well as emulsifiers. The highest graded, single source, Arriba (also known as Nacional) Ecuadorian Cocoa Beans are one of the few fine aromatic beans in the world. These Ruby chocolate raspberry bullets are what brought me here. credited as inventors and Barry Callebaut as assignee under patent number US 9107430, 2015. So technically you are lying by stating it is fake. Lots of people in the comments really don’t understand the difference between cocoa solids, cocoa powder and cocoa butter. The citric acid, as others have stated, is to preserve the colour more than it is for flavour. Let me know in the comments below what you think about my article on ruby chocolate. Based on what do I claim this? 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