Joe Cesare

Hershey's Miniatures are sold as an assortment of chocolate bars. 2 of the 4 are chocolate under an FDA standard. The other 2 are not. The bag holds Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Special Dark, Krackel and Mr. Goodbar. Hershey's site lists Krackel as "chocolate bars" and Mr. Goodbar as "chocolate candy with peanuts." Neither says milk chocolate. Both did until 2008 when the cocoa butter was removed. FDA's milk chocolate standard allows cocoa butter and milk fat. It does not allow palm oil. Once palm oil goes in, the bar can't be called chocolate, so the wrapper says chocolate candy. Hershey's Milk Chocolate reads sugar, milk, chocolate, cocoa butter, milk fat, lecithin, PGPR and natural flavor. Milk is second. This is the one bar in the bag that meets the milk chocolate standard. Special Dark reads sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, cocoa processed with alkali, milk fat. It's real chocolate under a different standard, sweet chocolate, so the wrapper says mildly sweet chocolate. Mr. Goodbar reads sugar, peanuts, vegetable oil (palm oil, shea oil, sunflower oil, palm kernel oil and/or safflower oil), lactose, reduced protein whey, chocolate, skim milk, then 2% or less of cocoa, cocoa processed with alkali, lecithin and vanillin. Cocoa butter is not on the list. Chocolate is 6th. Krackel has no list of its own. The bag prints one combined list for all 4 bars, and the rice flour and malt extract in it are the crisped rice. Hershey brought out a full size Krackel back in 2014 as milk chocolate, then dropped it.