Candy Review: Bija Omega White Chocolate Truffles
Thursday, January 11, 2007 - by Sera

While in my local health food store I recently spied some new chocolate in the refrigerated section. There, next to the soy salami (that makes perfect sense, right?) sat three types of organic truffles. Bija are organic chocolate truffles proudly boasting that each package (containing 4 truffles) has 6g Omega3 and 3g Omega6 fatty acids. Ahhh, I see a “health” chocolate here!

There’s three flavors in all: Milk Chocolate with hazelnut filling, 70% Dark Chocolate and White Chocolate with maple filling. Being a dedicated chocoholic I decided to go for the most non conventional of the three: the White Chocolate. I figured if Bija does their white chocolate well, the others should be delicious too. The truffles are large, each about 16g and 1 1/2 inches long and 1 inch wide and feel quite heavy in your hand. The back of the package claims the ratio of the two omega fat types (2:1) to be “ideal”. The chocolate is made from Peruvian cocoa butter and Madagascar vanilla. The ingredients list on the back are promising too, with skim milk, cocoa butter, the 3-6-9 oil blend (omega3 and 6) and cane sugar are the first on the list. I’m excited already!

And the taste? It’s very good white chocolate in my opinion. The maple truffle interior is only ok because the flavor is not as intense as I expected/would like. I enjoyed it nevertheless, as it’s a very well balanced and sweet piece of white chocolate. The one thing I had trouble getting past is how oily the whole thing feels on both my tongue and fingers. I guess that’s what happens when you add in so many “healthy” fats. Did I also mention there’s 8 grams (3 grams saturated) in just one of these truffles? Oy!