Love chocolate syrup on your organic ice cream sundae — but don’t want the mercury and high fructose corn syrup in Hershey’s stuff? Thanks to the burgeoning fair trade and organic market, you actually have a few different options for organic, fair trade chocolate syrup!
Dagoba Organic Chocolate Syrup. Purists will complain that Dagoba got bought up by Hershey’s, whose mercury-laced chocolate syrup inspired this post in the first place. Still, as an individual product, this syrup’s organic, fair trade, and corn-syrup free.
Dagoba’s chocolate syrup’s a bit of a commitment — because you can only get it in huge 64 oz. plastic containers. Obviously, the product’s made more for cafes than individuals — though committed chocoholics could surely make their way through the big bottle. The syrup’s out of stock on Dagoba’s website, but Cafe Campesino‘s selling it for $19.95.
CÈ Organic Chocolate Syrup. If you want chocolate syrup for your mocha, CÈ Organic Chocolate Syrup sounds like the most eco choice of the bunch. Both the sugar and the chocolate in this syrup’s organic and fair trade certified. Plus, anti-plastic environmentalists will be happy to know that the syrup comes in glass bottles.
Garden Gourmet Foods kettle cooks this syrup in small batches. Get one 12.7 oz bottle for $8.50 at The Meadow, or a 3-pack at Amazon for $16.91.
You can also make your own fair trade, organic chocolate syrup by following the Homemade Chocolate Syrup Recipe from Beth of Fake Plastic Fish. If you really wanna get super green about it, here’s where you can get fair trade and organic cocoa and vanilla. Fair trade organic sugar should be fairly easy to find at your local supermarket, thanks to Wholesome Sweeteners.
Photos via The Meadow, Dagoba, and Fake Plastic Fish
Your post about mercury in Hershey’s Syrup was eye-opening! Made me even more glad for making my own. For those in the SF Bay Area, Rainbow Grocery sells fair trade organic sugar in bulk. They have organic cocoa powder in bulk, too, but it’s not fair trade.
(Wow. My hands are going numb from the cough syrup I just took. For my actual cough. I should really be in bed.)
I use Frontier organic fair trade vanilla.
Comment by Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish — January 29, 2009 @ 12:23 am
the organic syrup looks like a good alternative, does it taste like Hershey?
james´s last blog ..Effects of Fructose on Diabetes
Comment by james — July 6, 2010 @ 7:23 pm