Kinder Chocolate facts for kids
Kinder Chocolate (Italian: Kinder Cioccolato; "Kinder" is German for “Children") is a brand of chocolate bars produced by Italian multinational confectionery company Ferrero.
Kinder Chocolate logo used in Italy
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| Owner | Ferrero SpA |
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| Introduced | 1968 |
| Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |
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| Energy | 2,360 kJ (560 kcal) |
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53.5
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| Sugars | 53.0 g |
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34.8 g
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| Saturated | 22.6 g |
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Protein
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8.7 g
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| Minerals | Quantity
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| Sodium |
57%
853 mg |
| †Percentages estimated using US recommendations for adults. | |
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Kinder Chocolate
In Alba, Italy, in 1968, Michele Ferrero, proposed to market a product that was palatable to children (with chocolate) and at the same time reassuring to mothers (with milk), thus the slogan "+ milk (latte) - cocoa (cacao)" shown on the package. In 1968, Kinder Chocolate, a milk chocolate with a milky filling, was introduced to the German and Italian markets, gained commercial success, and was later sold in other European countries. The face of a child is depicted (first by Günter Euringer, then by Matteo Farneti) on the right side of Kinder Chocolate bar packages to suggest to buyers the idea of a product for children.
The product is 40% milk chocolate, with 53% sugar, 33% milk powder and 13% cocoa.
Kinder Products
Chocolate bars
Apart from the chocolate bars, products under the Kinder brand include several varieties, sold in over 125 countries worldwide.
- Kinder Bueno is a duo set of chocolate wafer bars containing a hazelnut cream filling. It was released in Italy in 1978, in Germany in 1991 and in the United Kingdom in 2002. These were marketed as the 'first Kinder chocolate for adults', and have gained the Kinder brand greater recognition in the UK. Kinder introduced a white chocolate version of Bueno in 1999. 2017 saw the release of the coconut and dark chocolate variants of the Kinder Bueno.
- Kinder Maxi is a larger version of the Kinder Chocolate.
- Kinder ChocoFresh is a two-layered chocolate bar. In the bottom, a layer of hazelnut cream then, a whipped cream base, then its coated with pure chocolate.
Chocolate confections
- Kinder advent calendars and Christmas stockings are sold during the Christmas season.
- There are DC Super Hero Girls-themed and Jurassic World-themed Kinder stockings.
- Kinder heart-shaped products are sold during the Valentine's Day season.
- Kinder Surprise is a hollow milk chocolate egg shell containing a toy. The outside surface of the egg is milk chocolate, and the inside is a milky interior. A capsule containing a toy is inside the chocolate egg. Kinder Surprise is banned in the US since the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act prohibits confectionary products containing "non-nutritive objects".
- Kinder Joy is similar in shape to the Kinder Surprise, it has a plastic egg-shaped packaging that is internally divided into two halves. One half contains two soft creamy chocolate layers, one milk chocolate-flavoured, one white chocolate-flavoured, which are eaten with an included spoon. Embedded in the ganache are two round, chocolate-covered wafers, which are filled with the same hazelnut cream found in Kinder Bueno. The other half contains a small toy.
- Happy Hippos are a wafer coated hippo-shaped biscuit, filled with both a white filling and a hazelnut filling. Happy Hippos are also available in Chocolate flavour.
- Kinder Delice is a chocolate cake with a layer of milk inside and a milk chocolate covering. The Kinder Delice brand has a commemorative variety which features ovos moles (Portuguese for "soft eggs") which is specific to the city of Aveiro, Portugal.
- Kinder Pinguì is similar to Kinder Delice with the exception of a complete chocolate covering and more milky filling inside.
- Milky Bites, known in the UK as Choco Bons, are small milk chocolate eggs, with a hazelnut and white chocolate filling.
- Country Crisp, similar to the Kinder Chocolate, containing small pieces of cereal and grain within the chocolate filling, as well as a wafer casing. (Also known under the name 'Kinder Country' and 'Kinder Cereali'.)
- Kinder Maxi King is a milk cake with a layer of caramel inside and a hazelnut chocolate covering.
- Kinder Paradiso is a slightly lemon-flavoured sponge cake, with a creamy milk filling in between and powdered sugar on the top.
- Kinder Milk Slice is a chocolate sponge cake that has a creamy, milky filling in the middle.
- Kinder Yogurt Slice is a sponge cake that has yogurt cream inside it, and there is yogurt inside the yogurt cream. It has a slight lemon flavour.
- Kinder Cards are biscuits with chocolate on top and creamy milk and cocoa fillings.
- Kinder Brioss is a sponge cake with milk chocolate on the top and a milky filling.
- Kinder Breakfast Plus is a sponge cake with five cereals inside it with malt on the top and cocoa on the inside.
- Kinder Pan and Choc is a sponge cake that also has chocolate sponge cake with a cocoa filling.
- Kinder CereAlé is a cereal bar with strawberry and cream fillings. It was created at Expo 2015.
Volleyball sponsorships
Kinder sponsors the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese national volleyball teams.
