# Dandelion Chocolate Chef's Chocolate 70% Camino Verde, Ecuador 2023 Harvest — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Dandelion Chocolate
- **Product:** Chef's Chocolate 70% Camino Verde, Ecuador 2023 Harvest
- **Sold at:** dandelionchocolate.com
- **Product page:** https://dandelionchocolate.com/products/camino-verde-ecuador-chefs-chocolate
- **Assessment ID:** pta_03a8b3b3f170469ba5875ad647c82f48
- **Assessed:** 2026-11-02
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Not final · review pending  
  ⚠️ At least one claim here is **preliminary** — a person is still reviewing it; see the per-claim status.
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.4
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_03a8b3b3f170469ba5875ad647c82f48

## Overall (safe to quote)

Chef's Chocolate 70% Camino Verde, Ecuador 2023 Harvest by Dandelion Chocolate — public trust assessment of 3 observed badge claim(s): Vegan: Limited Public Support; Gluten-Free: Limited Public Support; Allergen-Free: Limited Public Support. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents.

## Claims checked

### Gluten-Free

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 14/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Shelf life: 2 years from factory production date Vegan gluten free nut free peanut free soy free Camino Verde, Ecuador”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page publicly displays a gluten-free claim for this bar, and the sources checked did not include independent product-level testing or a GFCO listing for the brand. Under FDA's gluten-free labeling rule (21 CFR 101.91), such a claim is voluntary and requires no third-party certification, though the product must meet the legal definition of under 20 ppm gluten. Batch-specific public evidence and independent confirmation of this claim were not retrieved in this assessment.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-02
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Self-review note: Only GFCO's registry was checked; no other gluten-free certifier registry (e.g. Celiac Support Association, National Celiac Association, Coeliac UK, GIG, AOECS, NSF, SCS) was searched for 'Dandelion Chocolate', leaving open a possible certifier match that would strengthen the claim.

### Allergen-Free

- **Status:** Preliminary — a person is still reviewing this (`preliminary`)
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Our chocolate is free of soy, dairy, eggs, and gluten, and it is made in a factory that does not process nuts.”
- **Safe citation wording:** Preliminary — awaiting TilliT review: The product page states the chocolate is free of soy, dairy, eggs, and gluten and is made in a factory that does not process nuts; this is a self-declared claim, and 'allergen-free' has no single US regulatory definition, so it is scoped to those named allergens. Brand help articles describe two-ingredient, bean-to-bar sourcing but do not address allergens or this specific product, and batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. TilliT read the available ingredient statement and evidence and found nothing contradicting the claim; this is not a statement that the product is third-party certified.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-26
- **Limitation:** This is a claim about specific allergens (soy-free), not a blanket allergen-free claim — it says nothing about allergens it does not name.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 8 checks.

### Vegan

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 38/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Shelf life: 2 years from factory production date Vegan gluten free nut free peanut free soy free Camino Verde”
- **Certifier named:** Vegan Action
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a vegan claim, and a certifier catalog lists at least one Dandelion product as certified, though not this specific Chef's Chocolate 70% Camino Verde bar. Public evidence retrieved is brand- and company-level, and batch- or product-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. Vegan is not defined by US food regulation, so this claim can be self-declared in the US without required independent testing.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-02
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Vegan Action match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

## Not claimed on this page

Organic, Non-GMO, Fair Trade.

## Machine-readable versions

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## How to cite this

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_Generated 2026-11-02T08:38:08+00:00 from assessment pta_03a8b3b3f170469ba5875ad647c82f48._