# Alter Eco Foods 85% Cacao | Orange Blackout Chocolate Bar | Alter Eco — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Alter Eco Foods
- **Product:** 85% Cacao | Orange Blackout Chocolate Bar | Alter Eco
- **GTIN:** 817670012550
- **Sold at:** alterecofoods.com
- **Product page:** https://www.alterecofoods.com/products/orange-blackout
- **Assessment ID:** pta_8e4a5406cca949ba910f0bc11625454e
- **Assessed:** 2026-10-28
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Check complete · human review pending
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.4
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_8e4a5406cca949ba910f0bc11625454e

## Overall (safe to quote)

85% Cacao | Orange Blackout Chocolate Bar | Alter Eco by Alter Eco Foods — public trust assessment of 5 observed badge claim(s): Organic: Limited Public Support; Vegan: Limited Public Support; Non-GMO: Limited Public Support; Gluten-Free: Limited Public Support; Fair Trade: 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:** 44/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Product tag: "Gluten-Free"”
- **Certifier named:** Gluten-Free Food Program (GFFP)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Gluten-Free claim with limited public support. Specifically, a certifier lists this brand as certified, but not this specific product, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. Under FDA's gluten-free labeling rule (21 CFR 101.91), this claim is voluntary and needs no third-party certification program or specific test method, but the product must meet the legal definition (under 20 ppm gluten). TilliT did not find independent public product-level testing or certification in the sources checked, so TilliT cannot independently confirm this claim today — that is a gap in public evidence, not a sign the label lacks legal support. For medical use, rely on the current package and your clinician's guidance.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-27
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Gluten-Free Food Program (GFFP) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** The Gluten-Free Food Program (GFFP) product list names "Orange Blackout 85%", which is the product family, not specifically "85% Cacao | Orange Blackout Chocolate Bar | Alter Eco"; no exact-item upgrade was made.

### Organic

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 37/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “of dark chocolate and the tender sensation of real, organic oranges. Ingredients & Nutrition Panels + - Product”
- **Certifier named:** Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays an organic claim, and public evidence retrieved is brand- and company-level: the USDA Organic Integrity Database lists Alter Eco Foods, LLC as certified by Quality Assurance International, but this listing does not confirm certification for this specific product. One independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim, and the claim's wording corresponds to the USDA National Organic Program's 'organic' category (at least 95% organic content, eligible for the official seal). Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-27
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** The Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) product list names "Chocolate - Orange Blackout 85%", which is the product family, not specifically "85% Cacao | Orange Blackout Chocolate Bar | Alter Eco"; no exact-item upgrade was made.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

### Vegan

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 8/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Product tag: "Vegan"”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a "Vegan" tag, and the brand's About page describes its general organic and fair-trade philosophy without making a vegan claim about this bar; no match for Alter Eco Foods was found in the fetchable text of the Vegan Action or BeVeg certifier sites, and batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved. The ingredient list includes sugar, which may warrant further verification. This describes only what the cited public evidence shows and does not represent verification by TilliT.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-27
- **Limitation:** The Orthodox Union's own kosher product records classify '3 oz Dark Chocolate 85% Cacao Bar' as Dairy (containing dairy ingredients under Jewish dietary law) — worth checking against this product's own vegan claim, not proof that the claim is false on its own (kosher classification and a vegan claim are governed by different rules and can genuinely diverge in edge cases).
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.
- **Limitation:** Self-review note: The bundle checked Vegan Action (vegan.org) but never attempted a check of BeVeg, another vegan certifier whose registry could independently confirm or deny a vegan certification for Alter Eco — a genuinely different, never-attempted public check.

### Non-GMO

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 7/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “85% cacao Orange Blackout a set of icons: organic, non-g.m.o.'s, no gluten ingredients, no soy ingredients, no”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a non-GMO claim, and public evidence retrieved is brand- and company-level; product-specific and batch-specific evidence was not retrieved in this assessment, and no independent certifier record was found. The ingredient list includes orange, which appears on the Non-GMO Project's Monitored-Risk list (a lower signal than its High-Risk list), noted for shoppers rather than as a contradiction. Whether this claim reflects a meaningful distinction for this specific product is not established by the evidence retrieved.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-27
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

### Fair Trade

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 38/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “no additives, no artificial sweeteners, fair trade, recyclable packaging 85% Cacao | Orange Blackout”
- **Certifier named:** Fairtrade International (Fairtrade Finder)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a fair-trade claim, and Fairtrade International's Fairtrade Finder lists the brand's parent company, Alter Eco Foods LLC, as FLOCERT-certified for cocoa and cane sugar, though this listing is company-level and not confirmed for this specific product. Public evidence retrieved is brand- and company-level; batch- or product-specific certification evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. Independent research notes general limitations in fair-trade premium tracking below the cooperative or plantation level, which is an industry-wide observation rather than a finding about this product.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-27
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Fairtrade International (Fairtrade Finder) 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.

## Not claimed on this page

Allergen-Free.

## Machine-readable versions

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