What’s the difference between Easter egg chocolate and regular chocolate?

What’s the difference between Easter egg chocolate and regular chocolate?

Stefanie Mohr Photography/ShutterstockWith Easter around the corner, you’ll have seen chocolate Easter eggs on supermarket shelves. Maybe you’ve bought some already. But is there a difference between Easter chocolate and the everyday kind? Does Easter chocolate really taste better, as some people say? As we’ll see, any difference is less about the ingredients and more about how we experience the chocolate when we eat it. What do they contain? Wh…

Chocolate has become more and more expensive recently, but the sweets often cost much more in Easter fashion: In a sample of the Verein für Konsumerinformation (VKI) in March, one had to pay for the most expensive Easter bunny chocolate of known manufacturers on the kilo price converted by around 111 to 160 percent more than for the most expensive traditional table chocolate from the same house.

Two non-egg chocolate options for Easter Weekend

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