Green and Black's Maya Gold

It's exam time! Which means that I need an iv drip of chocolate and caffeine. Belying my ethical sensibilities, I've been picking up whatever chocolate I could find lately, and it's very often not fair trade or organic. So the other day, I decided to head to the store and purchase a few fair or equitrade chocolate bars, enjoy them, and share my opinions with you, dear readers. Who says ethical consumerism can't be fun?

First up ... is Green and Black's Maya Gold! Green and Black's is one of the premier labels for organic chocolate, but for whatever reason, most of their chocolate is not listed as fair trade. Maya Gold is both fair trade and organic. And apparently it was the first ever chocolate bar to be awarded the UK fair trade mark in 1994. Pretty impressive.

Anyway, the chocolate! Some of you chocolate fans will freak out at me ... I'm not a huge fan of super dark chocolate. So for me, this dark chocolate bar which is flavored with orange and other spices, is perfect. It's honestly a little like Terry's chocolate orange.

It's definitely not as luxe as some of the artisanal chocolates I had in Belgium recently, but over all, a very decent chocolate bar. Plus, fair trade AND organic. I give it an 8.5 out of 10.