Guittard Chocolate Company Announces Santé Coconut Sugar-Sweetened 72% Chocolate Chips Are Now Offered as Dairy-Free, Kosher Pareve Mini Chips in Retail and Wholesale

The new size of Guittard's popular coconut-sugar-sweetened baking chip offers the same great taste while providing exciting new application uses thanks to its smaller format.

BURLINGAME, CA (November 11, 2024) – Guittard Chocolate Company, the 156-year-old San Francisco-based premium chocolate maker, is excited to announce its Santé 72% chocolate is now in a mini chip. Guittard's innovative coconut-sugar sweetened and refined-sugar free Santé chips, which first launched in 2021 in a larger, unique chip size, quickly became a best-selling product, and the move to resize to a mini chip was designed with the needs of both home bakers and professionals in mind.

Guittard Santé chips–now produced on a dedicated allergen-friendly line— are gluten and dairy-free, Kosher Pareve, and vegan-friendly, making the product free from all 14 major food allergens and sensitivities. Guittard’s innovative formula uses coconut sugar–a natural alternative to refined sugar burgeoning in popularity amongst professionals and consumers—to create a balanced 72% chocolate with one gram of net carbohydrates, two grams of sugar, and no sugar alcohol or refined sugar.   

The decision to resize to mini chips was driven by customer demand: the company wanted to offer customers more flexibility in application, the same great-tasting Santé chocolate now offering home bakers, pastry chefs, and industry professionals more even chocolate distribution, quicker melting, and decorative garnishing, ultimately creating new ways for customers at home and in professional settings to bring mindful options into their kitchens and on menus.

The new Santé 72% mini baking chips are now available to purchase on-shelf in stores nationwide and wholesale through distributors or directly at Guittard.com. 

ABOUT GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY: As the oldest continuously family-owned and operated chocolate company in the United States, Guittard Chocolate Company, now under the fourth and fifth generation of family management, continues to grow with the same innovative spirit and commitment to sustainability that has made it one of the world’s most respected makers and suppliers of premium chocolate over the past 150+ years. For more information, please visit us online at Guittard.com or @GuittardChocolate.

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