Created to highlight and combat modern slavery in cocoa production, Tony's Chocolonely originated from a place of virtue. Now, looking inward, the brand is facing a demon of its own: sugar.
As it stated earlier this week: "while selling more cocoa beans is a win for our impact, eating too much of it is bad for your health," going on to explain that the average person in its native Netherlands consumes twice the recommended daily amount of sugar, and that 60% of packaged food and beverage sold in US grocery stores contains added sugar.
Tony's Chocolonely then lays out the steps it's going to take to battle overconsumption of sugar: proactively adapting information on chocolate wrappers, running campaigns to help customers make better choices (that is: eat less chocolate!), and pushing for a broad sugar tax in the Netherlands.
