# 88 Acres Chocolate Cherry Protein Bar (9 Bars) — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** 88 Acres
- **Product:** Chocolate Cherry Protein Bar (9 Bars)
- **Sold at:** 88acres.com
- **Product page:** https://88acres.com/products/chocolate-cherry-protein-bars
- **Assessment ID:** pta_55c9599dd0cc4677b284b08c6d56fe96
- **Assessed:** 2026-10-16
- **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-16
- **Review mode:** Check complete · analyst-reviewed
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.2
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_55c9599dd0cc4677b284b08c6d56fe96

## Overall (safe to quote)

Chocolate Cherry Protein Bar (9 Bars) by 88 Acres — public trust assessment of 3 observed badge claim(s): Vegan: Certification Match Found; Gluten-Free: Certification Match Found; 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:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 78/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “MADE IN OUR DEDICATED BAKERY FREE OF PEANUTS, TREE NUTS, GLUTEN, DAIRY, EGGS, SOY AND SESAME.”
- **Certifier named:** GFCO
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Gluten-Free claim and a public certification record from GFCO appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. GFCO's standard: Stricter than the FDA's own <20 ppm labeling rule.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-11
- **Limitation:** No structured ingredient list was available for this product; the risk-ingredient scan could not run. Absence of risk-ingredient flags does not confirm compliance.
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured GFCO 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: 7 checks.

### Allergen-Free

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 40/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “of real seed protein. Always plant-based and Top 9 allergen-free, it’s a wholesome boost for any moment. Default Title”
- **Safe citation wording:** The seller states this product is Allergen-Free, and one independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim that names this exact product. TilliT did not retrieve the ingredient list or batch-specific public evidence, so it has not completed an ingredient check. This claim is scoped to US allergen regulation covering the US 9 only and does not address celery, mustard, lupin, molluscs or sulfites.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-15
- **Limitation:** No structured ingredient list was available for this product; the risk-ingredient scan could not run. Absence of risk-ingredient flags does not confirm compliance.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 8 checks.

### Vegan

- **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 77/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “and 12g of real seed protein. Always plant-based and Top 9 allergen-free, it’s a wholesome boost for”
- **Certifier named:** Vegan Action
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Vegan claim and a public certification record from Vegan Action appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. Note: the product page did not use the word "Vegan" itself — this assessment was triggered by a related but distinct term (e.g. "plant-based"), not an explicit Vegan claim. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. Vegan Action's standard: Explicitly allows trace cross-contamination where shared-equipment cleaning steps are followed, to avoid excluding otherwise animal-free products.
- **Re-verification due:** 2027-01-11
- **Limitation:** No structured ingredient list was available for this product; the risk-ingredient scan could not run. Absence of risk-ingredient flags does not confirm compliance.
- **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.

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_Generated 2026-10-16T14:52:56+00:00 from assessment pta_55c9599dd0cc4677b284b08c6d56fe96._