Also, Easter eggs sometimes feature other bits and bobs such as biscuit or wafer pieces which will contain gluten.

Another offering from Mars Inc, but I had high hopes for this one. Galaxy is one of my favourite chocolate bars and I was excited to taste an Easter Egg made with it for a change. Not only do Nestle and Mondelez score poorly on our table, they also received our worst rating for their management of workers' rights in its cocoa supply chain. Plus they both get our worst rating for palm oil. We would recommend avoiding their brands: Of the supermarkets, all of The Co-op's bars of chocolate are Fairtrade. See our product guide to chocolate. Alternatively you can search our food database to find calories in over 60,000 foods and calculate the calories in your serving. Try it Free Aero Bubble Peppermint Easter Egg, NestleHave you found any other gluten free Easter eggs or noticed any changes to this list since it was published? Sadly, it doesn't get better from there. At first, I thought the chocolate was a little less impressive than the standard of Galaxy that I know, but then I realised why. The chocolate egg itself is exactly the same as the Malteser egg.

Time and again research has shown that people who keep a food diary are more successful at losing weight - but not everyone wants to use an online diary, for some of us it's just easier to scribble stuff down. Here's an easy and very economical way to do it Buttons Easter Egg, Cadbury Ahead of Easter Sunday (April 9, 2023) I've got a long list of gluten free, coeliac-safe Easter eggs in UK supermarkets right now. The media attention on child labour has led to a major rise in the proportion of cocoa that is certified by a third-party standard, from 2% a decade ago to about a quarter today. It is still growing fast as companies push towards their 2020 targets. UTZ is by far the most popular, followed by Rainforest Alliance, and then Fairtrade.There is also a small amount that is certified organic. Easter is here, and you know what that means, it's time to choose a chocolate egg from the colourful and alluring shop displays. Of course, everyone has their own personal preferences, but with so many on offer it can be difficult to work out which taste best or represent the best value for money. The lead up to the Easter season is one of the busiest periods for the factories and production runs for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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READ MORE: Bitter egg customer rages over chocolate treats dropping 'Easter' from their name - so we went to see if they were right Last but not least, we have Nestlé's KitKat Easter Egg. This box consists of an 150g chocolate egg and two 29g KitKat bunnies, coming to 208g overall. The chocolate egg comes in at 795 calories, made up of eight recommended servings of just under 100 calories. If you're going out of your way to buy a Galaxy Easter Egg, personally I think it's only justified that you expect the chocolate egg to be made from Galaxy, not the same plain, underwhelming chocolate you get in all other Mars Inc Easter eggs. I was really disappointed because I had high hopes for this egg, and then I realised I'd bought an Easter Egg pretty much identical to the last, give or take the chocolate that comes with it. Each of the two creme eggs come to 177 calories, which comes to an overall amount of 1,174 calories per box. Obviously, this isn't to say that you should avoid eating chocolate this Easter weekend, but it's always good to have it as part of a balanced diet. It was a bit more of a plain flavour, a more basic, cheaper chocolate, almost. It wasn't off-putting, but could have been better. The breakability was good, though, the chocolate was a little thinner than the Cadbury egg and broke easily into lots of smaller pieces.

Additionally the following brands sell some vegan Easter eggs: Divine, Montezuma, Hotel Chocolat, Lindt dark bunnies Whilst many dark chocolate Easter eggs will be vegan, the following brands are made by vegan companies: Most plain chocolate eggs are free from gluten but sadly some have 'may contain' warnings which mean they are not coeliac-safe.The following brands get our best rating for palm oil for either being palm-oil free or using sustainable palm oil:

Despite this, there is little evidence of significant progress. There are still estimated to be about two million children working on cocoa farms in West Africa. There is particularly profound concern about it because it is such hazardous work; cocoa pods are split with machetes, toxic chemicals are used, and the children carry extremely heavy loads. Injuries are extremely common.Quality Street tins now use less metal and was the first chocolate assortment brand to use compostable wrappers