More from Belgium - Chocolate, not Brussels!

Hello!

A chilly start to the day here in the highest point on the railway main line from Southampton to London!  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas as Jack Frost definitely nipped at the toes this morning.  So, enough of that lyrical waxing.  Chocolate!

Chocolate - 24vend is very open about our love for Chocolate and if you're a regular reader of our blog, you'll know that we have written regularly about this ancient and much-loved food stuff.  In fact, we are really hoping to see the Chocolate train in Brussels later this week.  Watch this space, as they say.

Chocolate - we were delighted to feature a really new and exciting, scientifically proven to be good for you, product at our recent "Being Healthy" conference.  For those who were busy vending elsewhere, here is some information from the fab team at "ohso" - may it whet your appetite and curiosity!

All of which goes to show that Belgium is famous for more than just Brussels!

Enjoy your day - the Friendly Vending Geeks!

  

PROBIOTIC CHOCOLATE BARS ENTER THE UK VENDING MARKET

ohso, the must-have healthy Belgian chocolate

 Ohso Chocolate, which is made from 53% delicious Belgian chocolate and is clinically proven* to be three times more effective at delivering your daily probiotics than a yoghurt drink, will be on sales in vending machines across the UK from next month.

Ohso will be the first probiotic chocolate to be available via vending machines in the UK and will be bought in packs of three available in both flavours, original and orange.

At just 72kcals per bar, ohso, the guilt free chocolate bar that loves your tummy, was launched to the UK market at the beginning of the year via Harvey Nichols Foodhalls. The product has seen rapid growth and has since gained listings in Tesco-owned Nutricentres and Ocado, as the shelves of many nationwide independent retailers.  

 “We are very excited to be entering the vending market”, says Andrew Marten, founder of ohso and director of Goodnesse, the company behind the brand. “Ohso is a perfect fit for vending machines. With no-added dairy, gluten and wheat and nut free, it’s a great healthy chocolate alternative. Each individually wrapped bar is designed to provide consumers with the optimum daily amount of probiotic to help support their digestive health, restoring the bacterial flora of good bacteria in the gut to help improve immunity and overall health and wellbeing.” 

ohso is also available to buy online at www.ohsolovesyourtummy.com

Note (and all the technical scientific stuff you require)

Recent figures show Britons have an insatiable appetite for ‘functional foods’ which have health benefits beyond basic nutrition and annual sales of such products are set to hit £915m by 2015 according to Mintel.

*Based on the survival rates of probiotics passing through the stomach to the small intestine, it was found that the survival rates in the probiotic yoghurt matrix were three times lower than in chocolate.  Source: Ghent University, Belgium