Josef Zotter has set up a special in-house research centre where, together with Birgit Schellenbacher, he is redefining vegan and lactose-free chocolate and creating new types of chocolate that are healthy, environmentally-friendly and full of flavour and will offer a greater variety and choice of chocolate.
All dark chocolate varieties are vegan and lactose-free anyway since they consist only of cocoa and raw cane sugar and contain no milk at all. Milk and white chocolate varieties pose more of a challenge. The trick is to replace the milk content...read more and create completely new 100% plant-based varieties that taste just as good. The new avant-garde of vegan varieties shows great promise and has lost any whiff of selfrighteous self-denial. Instead what consumers get is a choice of innovative premium quality 100% plant-based varieties ranging from white to milk chocolate that are made from rice or soy beans and contain no milk at all.
Each variety has got its own unique taste because at Zotter we are committed to diversity and pride ourselves on offering that very diversity and choice in our vegan and lactose-free range.read less