As I noted a few days ago, cocoa prices are up, I paid $8 for an 8oz container of Hersheyâs cocoa powder.
In my protein drinks I use chocolate as the flavor, and for many years Iâve used the Ghirardelli chocolate drink mix. It used to be called âSweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoaâ, but recently the name âGhirardelli Dark Chocolate & Cocoa Sweet Ground Powderâ.
It is not bitter dark, rather itâs just a sweet chocolate powder. A commenter on Amazon was surprised that sugar was the first ingredient, and yes it is a sweet drink mix.
But itâs also got a fair amount of chocolate and cocoa in it. And to my taste buds it is better than the usual mass market cocoa mixes one finds in the grocery store. Including the Starbucks brand of cocoa mix, which is priced at several times the Ghirardelli.
I bring this up here because today Amazon dropped the price of a 3lb container to just $13.80, a deal when one looks at the plain cocoa powder prices.
Given the way cocoa production is going with climate problems in Ghana and elsewhere, I donât know if these low prices will last long.
Chocolate lovers: we got to hoard while we can!