Raw Dark Chocolate Bars

Our raw dark chocolate bars, strongest first

Ben's tip for tasting: start with the darkest bar, before any sweetness reaches your palate, and work your way down.

Pure Peruvian 100%. Nothing but stone-ground, unroasted Peruvian Criollo. Our 100% dark chocolate bar has no added sugar, only the cacao's own naturally occurring sugars, and turns from bold to fruity and earthy as a square melts.

Atey Ate% 88%. Deep and bold, with just enough low GI yacon syrup to round off the edges. Low in sugar at 4.8g per 100g, and the natural step before 100%.

Signature Seventy 70%. The original Mr Popple's bar, and not your usual 70%: lucuma brings a fruity, slightly creamy note to the Criollo, sweetened with low GI yacon syrup, with just 9.5g of sugars per 100g.

Euphoric Orange 70%. The Signature Seventy recipe with sweet orange oil, so bright citrus sits over rich raw cacao. Sweetened with low GI yacon syrup, with no refined sugar.

Amarillo Chilli 65%. Fruity Peruvian Amarillo chilli brings a warmth that builds slowly through a 65% bar sweetened with coconut blossom sugar. More glow than fire.

Dark Mylk 61%. Our easiest way into dark chocolate: dark and rich with no bitter edge, made with our dairy-free mylk of gluten-free oat and rice flours and sweetened with coconut blossom sugar.

How to choose your strength

The percentage on the wrapper is the cocoa solids: how much of the bar comes from the cacao bean, cacao butter included. The rest is mostly sweetener, plus orange oil or chilli in the flavoured bars and our dairy-free mylk in Dark Mylk. A higher number means a bolder, less sweet bar.

61-65%: all the richness of dark chocolate, none of the bitterness. Start with Dark Mylk, or Amarillo Chilli for a little heat.

70%: where it all started. Fine-flavour Criollo, a fruity, slightly creamy lift from lucuma, and low GI yacon syrup instead of refined sugar. Browse all our 70% dark chocolate.

88%: bold and deep, and perhaps less bitter than you'd expect this close to 100%.

100%: pure cacao, unsweetened, for when you want the bean and nothing else.

For what the numbers on any wrapper mean, read our guide to dark chocolate percentage.

A gift, or a monthly supply

Buying for someone else? Our dark chocolate gift box holds ten 35g bars: two Pure Peruvian, two Atey Ate%, three Signature Seventy and three Dark Mylk. You can include a short handwritten note - just let us know in the order notes. For Christmas, the last UK order date is Thursday 17 December.

If you'd rather never run out, a vegan chocolate subscription arrives every month, and you choose exactly which bars go in the box.

Organic, vegan and made from raw cacao

Every bar here is vegan friendly, dairy-free, gluten-free and palm-oil free, and free from the top 14 allergens. We make them in our dedicated vegan, dairy-free and nut-free facility, where no tree nuts or peanuts ever come on site. The cacao is BDA certified organic and comes from a farmers' cooperative in Peru, and nothing is sweetened with refined sugar, stevia or sugar alcohols.

Yacon syrup, the sweetener in Atey Ate%, Signature Seventy and Euphoric Orange, comes from the root of the yacon plant. Much of yacon syrup's sweetness comes from fructooligosaccharides (FOS), a fibre that passes through the small intestine without being digested or absorbed.

Orders over £25 get free UK delivery. Bars travel in letterbox-friendly boxes with plastic-free packaging: certified home-compostable inner wrapping and a recyclable FSC card outer box.

Raw dark chocolate FAQs

What is raw dark chocolate?

Raw dark chocolate is made from cacao that is never roasted. Mr Popple's Chocolate stone-grinds unroasted Peruvian Criollo cacao nibs at a low temperature, below 42°C, for 60 to 80 hours, where standard chocolate is roasted at 120 to 150°C. Skipping the roast preserves heat-sensitive compounds and the bean's fruity flavour.

Is your vegan dark chocolate dairy-free?

Yes. Every Mr Popple's Chocolate dark bar is vegan friendly and dairy-free, made in a dedicated vegan, dairy-free and nut-free facility. Dark Mylk's dairy-free mylk is made from gluten-free oat and rice flours. We don't lab-test finished bars for allergens, so always check the label if you have an allergy.

Does your dark chocolate contain sugar?

Mr Popple's Pure Peruvian is unsweetened, with no added sugar, though it contains the cacao's naturally occurring sugars. Atey Ate%, Signature Seventy and Euphoric Orange are sweetened with low GI yacon syrup, and Amarillo Chilli and Dark Mylk with coconut blossom sugar. None contain refined sugar. Our lowest-sugar bars are also in our sugar free chocolate range.

Is raw dark chocolate bitter?

Not the way cheap dark chocolate can be. Harsh bitterness can come from bulk beans roasted hard, while Mr Popple's Chocolate starts with fine-flavour Criollo and never roasts it, so our bars taste fruity and rounded. New to dark chocolate? Start with Dark Mylk at 61% and let each square melt on your tongue rather than chewing it.

Is dark chocolate good for you?

Dark chocolate is rich in flavanols, and a Cochrane review found flavanol-rich cocoa products lowered blood pressure slightly, by about 2 mmHg, in short trials of mostly healthy adults. Dark chocolate of 70-85% cocoa also contains theobromine, magnesium and iron. Like any chocolate, it's a treat rather than a health food.

Can people with diabetes eat dark chocolate?

Diabetes UK says people with diabetes can eat chocolate in moderation, and suggests good-quality dark chocolate of around 70% cocoa or higher, as the stronger taste may mean eating less. In the Mr Popple's range, Pure Peruvian has no added sugar, and Atey Ate%, Signature Seventy and Euphoric Orange are sweetened with low GI yacon syrup rather than refined sugar.

Are your dark chocolate bars keto-friendly or paleo-friendly?

Mr Popple's Pure Peruvian, Atey Ate%, Signature Seventy and Euphoric Orange are keto-friendly. Every dark bar here is paleo-friendly except Dark Mylk, which contains gluten-free oat and rice flours. Amarillo Chilli and Dark Mylk are not keto-friendly.

Are Mr Popple's dark chocolate bars any good?

Mr Popple's Chocolate is award-winning, rated 4.6 on Trustpilot and 5.0 on Google, and 100% recommend us on Facebook. Our Pure Peruvian was top for antioxidants and polyphenols in an independent Oxford Brookes test, and our guide to high polyphenol dark chocolate explains what was measured.