# Montezuma's Chocolate Royal Mint - Dark Chocolate Mini Bars x26 — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Montezuma's Chocolate
- **Product:** Royal Mint - Dark Chocolate Mini Bars x26
- **GTIN:** 50012930
- **Sold at:** montezumas.co.uk
- **Product page:** https://montezumas.co.uk/products/royal-mint-chocolate-mini-bars
- **Assessment ID:** pta_25d78698432048fd9f854281711de4a0
- **Assessed:** 2026-11-02
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Check complete · human review pending
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.4
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_25d78698432048fd9f854281711de4a0

## Overall (safe to quote)

Royal Mint - Dark Chocolate Mini Bars x26 by Montezuma's Chocolate — public trust assessment of 4 observed badge claim(s): Organic: Limited Public Support; Vegan: Limited Public Support; Non-GMO: Limited Public Support; Gluten-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:** 9/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Product tag: "Gluten Free Chocolate"”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a "Gluten Free Chocolate" tag, and under UK rules (retained Regulation (EU) No 828/2014) a gluten-free claim is voluntary and requires no third-party certificate, provided the product meets the legal limit of no more than 20 mg of gluten per kg. No independent product-level testing or certification was retrieved in the sources checked, and the GFCO certified products page showed no match for Montezuma's Chocolate, so this claim is not independently confirmed here. For medical use, rely on the current package and your clinician's guidance.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-02
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

### Organic

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 16/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Organic Dark Chocolate (Organic cocoa mass, Organic cane sugar, Organic cocoa butter, Organic vanilla extract) & Natural Flavouring: Organic Mint Oil”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Organic claim with limited public support. Specifically, the supporting evidence is about this brand, not this specific product, and the brand has publicly stated related credibility information. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, ingredient-level. Product-specific and batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. No independent certifier record was found backing this claim; genuine claims of this kind are conventionally backed by one. This claim's own wording corresponds to the USDA National Organic Program (US)'s 'organic' labeling category (requires at least 95% organic content; may display the official organic seal).
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-02
- **Limitation:** This claim's own wording scopes it to a specific ingredient, not the whole product — organic / fair-trade certification can apply to one ingredient without the finished product itself being certified, and the page shows no whole-product certification (no seal, no "certified organic" statement).
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Self-review note: The product names Soil Association as its certifier, but only the Soil Association's own site was checked; the UK Soil Association certification database / Defra organic certifier lookup for the specific brand 'Montezuma's' was not queried via a normalized name, which is the most direct path to a st

### Vegan

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 9/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Product tag: "Vegan Chocolate"”
- **Safe citation wording:** Claim supported. This kind of Vegan claim can be made in the UK without a third-party certificate. TilliT read the available ingredient statement and the applicable evidence and found nothing that contradicts it. This is not a statement that the product is third-party certified. The public-evidence score describes how much independent proof was found; it does not mean the product is not Vegan. Specifically, the brand has publicly stated related credibility information. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. Note: the ingredient list includes natural flavoring, sugar, which may warrant further verification for a Vegan claim. This claim can legally be self-declared in the UK, with no required independent testing.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-26
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

### Non-GMO

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 9/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “FREE FROM: COLOURINGS, GLUTEN, GM & PRESERVATIVES”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Non-GMO claim with limited public support. Specifically, the brand has publicly stated related credibility information. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. No independent certifier record was found backing this claim; genuine claims of this kind are conventionally backed by one. Non-GMO is accurate for this product, but none of its listed ingredients (e.g. corn, soy, canola, sugar beet, alfalfa, papaya, eggplant, pineapple, zucchini, potato, or animal-derived inputs such as meat, dairy, or egg) are among the crop types or inputs with a commercially available genetically modified/GMO-fed counterpart (TilliT uses the US list, which approves more such crops than most markets) — so this claim may not be a meaningful distinction for this specific product.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-24
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

## Not claimed on this page

Allergen-Free, Fair Trade.

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_Generated 2026-11-02T06:29:12+00:00 from assessment pta_25d78698432048fd9f854281711de4a0._