Shop owner finds 22-year-old KitKat bar
A shop owner who found a 22-year-old KitKat bar has discovered it contains less sugar than today’s incarnation.
Emma Duncan found the old chocolate bar at the bottom of an old box of crockery donated to her bric-a-brac shop.
The bar’s wrapper was perfectly intact with the red packaging clearly stamped with a best before date of Oct. 1, 1995.
Emma decided to buy a new KitKat to compare the two versions. She found the old wafer was bigger weighing 6.5g heavier and the main ingredient was listed as milk chocolate – whereas today’s version lists the main ingredient as sugar.
KitKat bars were launched in England on 29 August 1935, under the title of Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp. The popular confection is now owned by Nestle.
The recipe was changed in April for the first time in more than 30 years.
The new four finger bars, which can be distinguished by the label “now with extra milk & cocoa”, contain 21.3g of sugar – versus the old bar’s 22g of sugar.
But the new bar is also about 10 per cent smaller, meaning today’s bar contains more sugar than its 22-year-old predecessor.