Cadbury drops palm oil from chocolate!

**Beemer** · 17th August 2009, 11:02

Just saw this on Stuff - http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2758...l-in-chocolate

It will be interesting to see if they drop vegetable oil or just palm oil.

Cadbury has bowed to consumer pressure and stopped using palm oil in its dairy milk chocolate.

The confectionary giant caused a furore when it was revealed it had substituted cocoa butter with vegetable fat including palm oil.

Palm oil is a contentious ingredient with reports blaming its plantations for huge contributions to global warming and intensive habitat destruction leading to the deaths of orang-utans in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Cadbury New Zealand managing director Matthew Oldham said he was “really sorry” and that the decision was in direct response to consumer feedback, including hundreds of letters and emails.

“At the time, we genuinely believed we were making the right decision, for the right reasons. But we got it wrong,” he said.

“Now we’re putting things right as soon as we possibly can, and hope Kiwis will forgive us.

The change will be made within the next few weeks, he said.

**Mully** · 17th August 2009, 11:07

Huzzah.

Bow to consumer pressure, bitches.

**allycatz** · 17th August 2009, 11:08

Well amen to that one....it was chocolate but not as we know it!

**"Rambo"** · 17th August 2009, 11:13

Now lets see if they start making them back to the original sizes they were last year or so. If you have brought a block of choc lately you would find it is smaller and weighs less then it did a year ago. Same goes for Mars and other chocolate makers

**EJK** · 17th August 2009, 11:15

And bring back 20% of my bar!

**Laava** · 17th August 2009, 11:19

The main reason is because of Whittakers.

**crazyhorse** · 17th August 2009, 11:32

YAHOOOOOOO...... I love Cadbury, but it didn't taste right. At least there is one company prepared to put what the consumer wants first.

Go Cadbury

**vifferman** · 17th August 2009, 11:35

Well, I stopped buying Cadburys in favour of Whittakers, apart from the last visit to the supermarket when Cadburys was REALLY cheap, and Whittakers had no white chocolate (ordinary choc keeps me awake at night). So, I relented and bought some white Cadburys, and didn't like it much. I'll be interested to see if dropping the palm oil fixes it. BTW - cocoa butter IS vegetable oil too, y'know.

**Shaun S** · 17th August 2009, 11:37

Originally Posted by Laava

The main reason is because of Whittakers.

Which happens to be a better tasting option in my opinion.

**oldrider** · 17th August 2009, 11:40

Originally Posted by Beemer

Just saw this on Stuff - http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2758...l-in-chocolate

It will be interesting to see if they drop vegetable oil or just palm oil.

Cadbury has bowed to consumer pressure and stopped using palm oil in its dairy milk chocolate.

The confectionary giant caused a furore when it was revealed it had substituted cocoa butter with vegetable fat including palm oil.

Palm oil is a contentious ingredient with reports blaming its plantations for huge contributions to global warming and intensive habitat destruction leading to the deaths of orang-utans in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Cadbury New Zealand managing director Matthew Oldham said he was “really sorry” and that the decision was in direct response to consumer feedback, including hundreds of letters and emails.

“At the time, we genuinely believed we were making the right decision, for the right reasons. But we got it wrong,” he said.

“Now we’re putting things right as soon as we possibly can, and hope Kiwis will forgive us.

The change will be made within the next few weeks, he said.

Too late Cadbury, the damage is done, you have lost the trust of your consumers!

**Beemer** · 17th August 2009, 11:41

Originally Posted by vifferman

Well, I stopped buying Cadburys in favour of Whittakers, apart from the last visit to the supermarket when Cadburys was REALLY cheap, and Whittakers had no white chocolate (ordinary choc keeps me awake at night). So, I relented and bought some white Cadburys, and didn't like it much. I'll be interested to see if dropping the palm oil fixes it. BTW - cocoa butter IS vegetable oil too, y'know.

Whittakers does have white chocolate now - plain and with macadamia nuts.

I would be keen to know if they will still be substituting vegetable oil for some of the cocoa butter in an effort to keep the price down, or if they will just stop using palm oil as one of the vegetable oils they use. I tried a square last week when someone had a bar of the milk chocolate and macadamia nut and I didn't like it at all. It may have been creamy but it wasn't very chocolately tasting. I would rather pay more and have it taste right!

**Hitcher** · 17th August 2009, 11:45

I suspect that it may be too late for Cadbury in New Zealand. They will have lost significant market share to Whittakers, probably forever.

This demonstrates the perils in getting cute with one's consumers.