The Anonymous Widower

Hotel Chocolat

It has just been announced on the local news, that Hotel Chocolat is expanding and creating 250 new jobs in Huntingdon and at its chocolate factory in St. Lucia. I checked their web site to see if they do gluten-free, as I am partial to the occassional bit of chocolate. Now that Cadbury’s have been taken over by Kraft, I worry that their products will end up contaminated by wheat maltodextrin to save money. I just can’t take the chance and so I was pleased to see that Hotel Chocolat have a gluten-free page on their web site.

I have sent a comment to Hotel Chocolat to query the level of gluten, as they say the odd contamination might happen.

I am a coeliac and also I monitor a Yahoo group for others.  I haven’t tried your gluten-free products, but some coeliacs won’t as they are very sensitive to gluten.  I myself am not, but I do react to wheat maltodextrin.  What’s wrong with Demerara sugar? I think you may find that there is a lot of demand for a simple guaranteed gluten-free product, especially since G&B are now part of Kraft and US companies seem to have a fetish for wheat maltodextrin.

I shall await their reply.

what is interesting, is how they have raised the money for the expansion.  They have raised it from their tasting club and will pay the interest in chocolate, as described here in The Telegraph.That sounds a model, that might work with a lot of food and drink products, especially where you are dealing with a specific group of people like coeliacs.

July 15, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Finance, Food, Health, World | Chocolate, Coeliac/Gluten-Free