Vegan Ritter Sport Chocolate Bar Taste Test

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Mar 25

Written By Louise

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with Ritter Sport in any way; I just like talking about food. I am a member of the Amazon Affiliate program and earn on qualifying purchases.

At long last, Ritter Sport has created vegan versions of their distinctive square-shaped chocolate. How do they stack up to the classics, though?

Milk Chocolate (Pur)

First, we have to talk about the regular vegan milk chocolate bar, since that seems to be the basis for the other vegan Ritter Sport varieties. You definitely don’t bite in and think, “yep, this is vegan”, but it also doesn’t have the creamy taste and texture you’d expect from milk chocolate. The taste is more like a mild dark chocolate, while the texture is a bit hard.

I thought it was just okay, while my boyfriend, who loves dark chocolate, thought it was quite good.

Hazelnut Amaranth (Voll-Nuss Amaranth)

I was starting to suspect that no vegans were actually consulted in the creation process of Ritter Sport’s vegan chocolate bars when I saw this one. Non-vegans always think vegans are obsessed with nutrition and love putting obscure grains in everything, and they are dead wrong. Vegans want to eat junk food that tastes good, just like everyone else. So why–dear sweet baby Jesus WHY–is there amaranth in this chocolate? It doesn’t taste like anything and just got deeply stuck in my teeth. Regular hazelnut and chocolate would be much better.

Hazelnut Amaranth was a big miss for me.

Sesame (Sesam)

Sesame was the chocolate bar I was most looking forward to, as sesame desserts are my favorite. I was imagining it would be chocolate with tahini mixed in or something reminiscent of halva, but it’s actually the vegan chocolate with whole sesame seeds. I may have had my expectations too high, but it’s a bit disappointing.

Almond Quinoa (Mandel Quinoa)

Almonds in chocolate? A tried-and-true classic. “But this will confuse the consumer to have almonds in vegan chocolate,” I imagine a higher-up at Ritter Sport interjecting after jolting awake from his daily snooze at a meeting. “We already have almonds in chocolate. Non-vegans will accidentally buy it and never buy Ritter Sport again! Vegans won’t know it’s vegan! We’ll lose business by the fass voll!” And someone with the highly enviable job title of Chocolate Researcher replied, “Erm, well…I guess we could put quinoa in it.” Although the boss-man was already asleep again, they just went with it.

Despite having this less-than-flattering scenario thought up, this one was maybe my favorite of Ritter Sport vegan chocolates. I don’t know if the quinoa adds anything, but it doesn’t detract like the amaranth in Hazelnut and Amaranth. It’s just like chocolate and almonds. While I prefer nuts with milk chocolate and the vegan chocolate isn’t particularly milk chocolatey, I’m okay with darker chocolate and nuts.

Overall, I wasn’t too impressed with Ritter Sport’s vegan chocolate line. The base chocolate just isn’t creamy enough to be a great milk chocolate, and if you want dark chocolate, there are a lot of vegan contenders on the market. Still, if you’re vegan and want to try, you might as well.

Otherwise, you can stick with Ritter Sport’s “accidentally vegan” chocolate bars, like the classic Marzipan: