r/Brazil • u/crnkadirnk Foreigner • 5d ago

Food & Drink Chocolate varieties

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A moderately common question that comes up here: “what gifts should I bring back from Brazil?”

Hopefully this can be a quick visual guide of some ideas. This is some of what we brought for ourselves and to share with friends.

Starting in the back left corner, variety boxes of candy bars. Similar to ‘fun size’ Halloween chocolates in North America. These are fun to bring to events or work because the ind wrappers and variety aspect.

Bis. Chocolate covered wafers, like 3g each piece so again great to share.

Chocolate bars. Filled with flavors; ‘trio’ bars with a cookie, chocolat, and filling; Alpino is a favorite brand; the brigadeiro was a personal impulas purchase by me.

Cookies! This is a personal favorite. Watch for some of the Oreo-like cream filled ones. passatempo is another one of the most popular product lines.

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u/pedromagrod 5d ago

Those are ultra processed hydrogenated fat without or almost without cocoa unfortunately... And it's not really traditional from brasil... For gifts I would recommend bringing things like doce de leite, paçoca, pé de moleque, cocada etc.. basically festa junina sweets

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u/TropicalSteph 5d ago

Disagree, this is a classic gift, easy to find too. But there are always higher end chocolate brands too to consider like Cacau Show and Kopenhagen.

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u/kilimanjarocks 5d ago

Depends on where you're going I think. Besides Bis, I wouldn't dare offer any of the others to anyone from most European countries. The bar is very high over here and brazilian industrial sweets just don't cut it.

I'm with the top commenter, traditional stuff is the way to go. People go crazy over goiabada here.

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u/beraldopontopdf 5d ago

“””chocolate”””

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u/FoldedTshirt 5d ago

Ngl i brought these back they’re an easy crowd pleaser

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u/CosmoCafe777 4d ago

Inflation/shrinkflation: many/most here no longer have chocolate in their formula, but some "chocolate flavoured" substance.

The same is happening with cheese and other products.

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u/Icy_Finger_6950 Brazilian in the World 5d ago

These aren't very good, though. As someone mentioned, these are pure saturated fat and sugar with very little cocoa content.

Cacau Show is also terrible. Horribly over-sweet.

Dengo is a good brand - their chocolate bars with Brazilian fruits and beautiful packaging were a massive hit with my Australian in-laws.

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u/SugarActive7943 4d ago

The RS state still suffering from 2024 floods.

So i recommend chocolate bars from that state, like Lugano, Neugebauer and Trento.

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u/Igorbemloco Brazilian 5d ago

My recommendation: Neugebauer, oldest brazilian chocolate factory still operating. It's relatively cheap and it's great.

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u/crnkadirnk Foreigner 5d ago

Thanks, I’ll watch out for it.  Based on one packaging (9g bars x 5), I think we might have bought some years ago, though I am certain it was eaten before departure.

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u/soloward 4d ago

Second this. Negembauer 1891 is the last cheap supermaket chocolate that is still tasty

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u/Admirable_Novel_1069 4d ago

Brazils chocolates are the worse

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u/ThrowAwayInTheRain Foreigner in Brazil 5d ago

Arcor is Argentine...

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u/crnkadirnk Foreigner 5d ago

Look folks, I don’t need to be told “aKsHuAlee, this DoEsNt qUitE conform to the legal definition of chocolate”, or about how some artisanal product is superior.  

My aim here was to highlight nationality available products made for the Brazilian market and reflect popular tastes.

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u/kacnique Brazilian 5d ago

With that being said, I second what other already replied: choose paçoca, cocada, pé de moleque/moça, doce de leite, etc.

Avoid ultraprocessed candies from big companies, they’re not traditional candies, you can find the same everywhere with different brands.

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u/jhaymaker 4d ago

I always bring paçoca and bis or assorted boxes. If its tasty for u, it will be tasty for your giftee

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u/Loose_Apartment_4982 5d ago

Popular tastes is doce de leite, cocada, goiabada, so many delicious sweets if you actually lived Brazilian culture. Buying ripoff cheap "chocolate" brands to gift foreigners doesn't make any sense with a culture so rich as ours. It was just shitty advice

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u/DuckSoprano 5d ago

I'm sorry to tell you that just grease with sugar. There were a time when all of those were chocolate. That time has now passed, I don't buy any of those. This company's should not be getting our money for their shitty products

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u/sekhmet_0108 4d ago

Trento chocolate .. white chocolate covered and filled with dark chocolate

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u/-EliPer- Pão-de-queijo eater in 🇮🇳 2d ago

These aren't chocolate, this is a class of products called "sabor chocolate" which means chocolate flavor in literal translation. It is basically an ultra-low quality product, full of vegetal fat instead of cocoa butter and every other ingredient replaced by low quality cheaper options to make these trash products affordable to the poor as real chocolate became very expensive in Brazil.

There are Brazilian chocolate bars that you can find starting from USD $7 for a 100g bar, which is very expensive for average Brazilians, which makes that thrash popular.

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u/n134177 2d ago

As a Brazilian who went back to Brazil and hoped to eat some good "bombons" I was utterly disgusted by how these taste nowadays. They don't even have chocolate in this stuff anymore!!!

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u/crnkadirnk Foreigner 2d ago

I appreciate you commented from personal experience. How long did you go between tasting them to make that level of an observation?

My spouse has never gone without for extended periods of time... It ends up with inflated prices, but all of the Brazilian markets in the USA we've been to have items like the Ouro Branco bombons.

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u/n134177 2d ago

4 years. Exactly the time they used to change the formulations and switch everything to fake chocolate it seems. 

Even Nestlé that used to be the best one now makes me gag at the taste.

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u/SugarActive7943 4d ago

The RS state still suffering from 2024 floods.

So i recommend chocolate bars from that state, like Neugebauer, Trento and Lugano.

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u/LavishnessSad5321 4d ago

Brazilian brands are having a hard time 😅 But, sticking with chocolate, I would recommend Dengo, or maybe Cacau Show. The ones in the picture are well known, but not that good anymore

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u/DamnedDoom Brazilian 5d ago

This yellow Bauducco one is sooooo good

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u/Murky_Willingness960 4d ago

This is not chocolate. The main ingredients are sugar and vegetal fat.

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u/Aurorassaur 5d ago

Everyone is talking about traditional sweets and no one thought of telling you to get a box of leite consensado, a bag of nescau, some butter and make brigadeiro.

Brigadeiro is really really easy to make. Just put all that in a pan, turn up the heat to medium and stir (vigorously and catching the bottom and corners when it starts bubbling).

For the traditional kid's party brigadeiro you have to cook some more after boiling point so it gets hard and can be shaped into balls, but you can just take it off the heat when it starts boiling and eat it with a spoon like we do at home (after letting it cool off in the fridge, of course).

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u/crnkadirnk Foreigner 5d ago edited 5d ago

My spouse already does make them with locally available (USA) products, if anything, we considered buying some sort of ball roller tray that helps with mass production.  

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u/zehcoutinho Brazilian 5d ago

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u/_pvilla 5d ago

For best chocolates in the country you need to find the ones that have won international prizes, or the small producers from the south, north, and northeast. RS and BA make some great ones