Big Turk is a
candy bar
A candy bar is a type of portable candy that is in the shape of a bar. The most common type of candy bar is the chocolate bar, including both bars made of solid chocolate and combination candy bars, which are candy bars that combine chocolate wi ...
manufactured by
Nestlé
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in
Canada
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, that consists of dark magenta
Turkish delight
Turkish delight, or lokum () is a family of confectionery, confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are often fl ...
coated in a chocolate coating.
Overview
It is typically found in a red, white, and blue striped package (blue on top, white in the middle, and red on the bottom). The ingredients in Big Turk bars include sugar, glucose, modified corn starch, cocoa butter, milk ingredients, unsweetened chocolate, black carrot concentrate, soy lecithin, natural flavor, citric acid, salt. Even though peanuts are not an ingredient, it is advised that the bars come in contact with machinery that also processes peanuts.
The bar contains of fat, which is advertised as 60% less fat than the average chocolate bar.
The other Canadian candy bar featuring Turkish delight,
Jersey Milk Treasures, was discontinued c. 1980, however other imported products, like
Fry's Turkish Delight
Fry's Turkish Delight is a chocolate bar made by Cadbury. It was launched in the UK in 1914 by the Bristol-based chocolate manufacturer J. S. Fry & Sons and consists of a rose-flavoured Turkish delight surrounded by milk chocolate. The Fry's iden ...
, can be purchased in specialty and import shops.
See also
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List of chocolate bar brands
This is a list of chocolate bar brands, in alphabetical order, including discontinued brands. A chocolate bar, also known as a candy bar in American English, is a confection in an oblong or rectangular form containing chocolate, dark chocol ...
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Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. ( ) is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. It has been the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 20 ...
References
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Nestlé brands
Chocolate bars
Canadian confectionery
Turkish delight
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