Knoppers is a brand of

wafer A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the foo ...

candy bar layered with

hazelnut The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus '' Corylus'', especially the nuts of the species ''Corylus avellana''. They are also known as cobnuts or filberts according to ...

and

milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of lactating mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfeeding, breastfed human infants) before they are able to digestion, digest solid food. ...

crème, produced by

August Storck August Storck KG (), doing business as Storck, is a German confectionery producer with headquarters in Berlin, owned by Axel Oberwelland. The main facility of Storck in Germany is in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, with another located in Sk ...

, first launched in West Germany in 1983. It has since been sold in over 50 countries, mainly in Europe but also in Vietnam, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. A bar weighs and typically has a light-blue-and-white wrapper. Knoppers are manufactured at Storck production sites in Germany.

Composition

One Knoppers candy bar consists of five layers: a wafer, hazelnut crème, another wafer, milk crème, and a chocolate-covered wafer. The ingredients are:

sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose Glucose is a sugar with the Chemical formula#Molecular formula, molecul ...

vegetable oil Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants. Like animal fats, vegetable fats are ''mixtures'' of triglycerides. Soybean oil, grape seed oil, and cocoa butter are examples of seed ...

wheat flour Wheat flour is a powder made from the grinding of common wheat used for human consumption. Wheat varieties are called "soft" or "weak" if gluten content is low, and are called "hard" or "strong" if they have high gluten content. Hard flour, or ...

12%, skimmed milk powder 11,5 %,

s 9%, whole wheat flour 6%, cocoa,

clarified butter Clarified butter is butter from which all milk solids have been removed. The result is a clear, yellow butter that can be heated to higher temperatures before burning. Typically, it is produced by melting butter and allowing the components to ...

2,6 %,

whey powder Whey is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdling, curdled and strained. It is a byproduct of the manufacturing of cheese or casein and has several commercial uses. Sweet whey is a byproduct resulting from the manufacture of rennet types ...

wheat starch Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of numerous glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by most green plants for energy storage. Worldwide, it is the most common carbohydrate in human die ...

emulsifier An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation. Emulsions are part of a more general class of two-phase systems of matter called colloids. Althou ...

soya lecithin Lecithin ( ; from the Ancient Greek "yolk") is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues which are amphiphilic – they attract both water and fatty substances (and so are ...

, cream powder 0,3 %,

salt In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as r ...

aroma An odor (American English) or odour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is a smell or a scent caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds generally found in low concentrations that humans and many animals can perceive v ...

caramel Caramel ( or ) is a range of food ingredients made by heating sugars to high temperatures. It is used as a flavoring in puddings and desserts, as a filling in bonbons or candy bars, as a topping for ice cream and custard, and as a colorant ...

Soda ash Sodium carbonate (also known as washing soda, soda ash, sal soda, and soda crystals) is the inorganic compound with the formula and its various hydrates. All forms are white, odourless, water-soluble salts that yield alkaline solutions in water ...

is used as

leavening In cooking, a leavening agent () or raising agent, also called a leaven () or leavener, is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action (gas bubbles) that lightens and softens the mixture. An altern ...

. According to the ingredient list, Knoppers may also contain

he allergens He or HE may refer to: Language * He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads * He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English * He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana) * Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter cal ...

almonds, peanuts as well as other nuts and eggs. The overall percentage of milk contained in the wafer sandwich is 10% (milk crème filling 30.4%,

nougat Nougat refers to a variety of similar confections made from a sweet paste hardened to a chewy or crunchy consistency.. The usual version in Western and Southern Europe is made from a mousse of whipped egg white sweetened with sugar or ho ...

crème filling 29.4%). The

nutritional value Nutritional value or nutritive value as part of food quality is the measure of a well-balanced ratio of the essential nutrients carbohydrates, fat, protein, minerals, and vitamins in items of food or diet concerning the nutrient requirements of ...

per 100 grams of Knoppers (four wafers) adds up to:

Product range

* Knoppers — the original Knoppers comprising layers of plain wafer, chocolate wafer, hazelnut creme and milk creme. It was introduced in 1983. * Knoppers Minis — a smaller version of Knoppers, introduced in 2004. * Knoppers Strawberry Yoghurt — a limited edition strawberry and yoghurt flavoured version of the original Knoppers, introduced in 2015. * Knoppers Coconut — a limited edition coconut flavoured version of the original Knoppers, introduced in 2018. * Knoppers Black & White — a limited edition Knoppers with dark cocoa wafer, introduced in 2019. * Knoppers NutBar — the first Knoppers

chocolate bar A chocolate bar is a confection containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nut (fruit), nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. A flat, easily breakable, chocolate bar is also called a tablet. In some variet ...

, introduced in August 2017. * Knoppers PeanutBar — a peanut version of the Knoppers NutBar, introduced in March 2020. * Knoppers CoconutBar — a coconut version of the Knoppers NutBar, introduced in March 2020.

Advertising

The wafer candy bar was advertised in Germany with the slogans "Morgens halb zehn in Deutschland" ("Nine thirty in the morning in Germany") and "Das Frühstückchen" ("The little breakfast").

Popularity in China

Knoppers have become popular amongst Chinese consumers, with Daigous based in Germany purchasing thousands of packets of the product.

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