Ghirardelli Intense Dark Hazelnut Heaven
Chocolate Bar

Ghirardelli Intense Dark Hazelnut Heaven bar is a middle quality - not gourmet - semi-sweet chocolate bar with hazelnuts.  It seems to me the company has spent a lot on packaging in an effort to make this product look more high-end than it is.  The outer wrapper is very heavy paper, almost light cardboard.  And some of the print is impressively gold colored. 

The inner wrapper is well-sealed aluminum foil - a plus in helping the bar get from factory to you without problems.  The bar is about 7-1/4” x 3-3/8”, and breaks into eight sections.

Maximum thickness is 1/4", but the area in the middle of each piece where the Ghirardelli logo is embossed is thinner.  According to the label, one serving is three sections totalling 190 calories.

The chunks of hazelnut are about as large as they could be and still fit within the thickness of the chocolate.   :-)

Nutritionally? The Ghirardelli Intense Dark Hazelnut Heaven bar has a two-level ingredients list. 

At the first level, the ingredients are shown on the label as semi-sweet chocolate and hazelnuts. 

So far, so good.  Then (in parentheses, like this) it shows the ingredients that make up the semi-sweet chocolate:  sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, milk fat, soy lecithin and vanilla. 

Because sugar comes first on the list, we know the semi-sweet chocolate has more sugar than it has of anything else. 

But, because the list is two-level (has sub-lists in parentheses), we don’t know where hazelnuts fall in the overall quantity of ingredients ranking. 

Still, I’d call the hazelnut quantity pleasing in the whole scheme of the bar - neither sparse nor chock-a-block. 

And there is none of the dread “hydrogenated” in the list, so that’s good.