Aug 17 2010 --- Today's healthy products need to offer more than just a single benefit to meet consumer expectations. Puratos has developed a healthy snacking concept, based around great tasting Oxanti chocolate that provides multifunctional health benefits.

Oxanti healthy snacking is a unique concept that offers customers recipes by combining Belcolade Oxanti chocolate and other healthy ingredients from Puratos. All Oxanti healthy snacks are tailored to different eating occasions. “What's more, we have benchmarked each of these recipes against similar products already on the market to validate superior performance across a range of nutritional measures,” the company notes in its promotion. The new Oxanti concept combines pleasure- great tasting chocolate & multifunctional health benefits at the same time.

According to the company, the Oxanti healthy snacking range includes:
• Oxanti Cereal Bar which has 45% more protein vs other leading cereal bars
• Oxanti Wholegrain Cake which has 40% less saturated fat than similar cakes on the market
• Oxanti Ganache Tart at just 74 kcal per tart; and as all the other recipes is source of fibres
• Oxanti Friand which has very low sodium (58% less compared to similar products).

Oxanti itself is a recent addition to the Belcolade range made from single Origin cocoa beans from Ecuador. It has a fruity, mild cocoa taste with a subtle floral hint and a nuance of earthiness. When tested against other antioxidant chocolate on the market, 2 out of 3 consumers expressed a clear preference for Oxanti, according to a Puratos Sensobus consumer panel in March 2009.

This chocolate also has far higher antioxidant activity than standard dark chocolate and its antioxidant power remains effective for longer, thanks to a unique patent-pending conching process developed by Puratos.

The Oxanti chocolate benefits:
• Great taste preferred by the consumer
• High in antioxidant activity
• Proven long-lasting high antioxidant power

Puratos have promised more Oxanti healthy snacking recipes in the near future.

www.oxanti.com