Overview
- Nestlé has updated packaging to describe both products as being "encased in a smooth milk chocolate flavour coating" instead of milk chocolate.
- UK rules require at least 20% cocoa solids and 20% milk solids for a milk‑chocolate label, a standard the new recipes no longer meet.
- The changes increase the use of cheaper vegetable fats in place of cocoa and butter to offset higher manufacturing costs.
- Nestlé says the recipes were carefully developed and sensory tested, and it has no plans to alter other chocolate products.
- The shift mirrors October moves by McVitie’s on Club and Penguin bars as cocoa futures climbed from roughly £2,200 a tonne in spring 2023 to above £10,000 by April 2025.