# Montezuma's Chocolate Case of 12 Bars - FitzRoy 74% Dark Chocolate — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Montezuma's Chocolate
- **Product:** Case of 12 Bars - FitzRoy 74% Dark Chocolate
- **GTIN:** 5060719920155
- **Sold at:** montezumas.co.uk
- **Product page:** https://montezumas.co.uk/products/case-12-fitzroy-bars
- **Assessment ID:** pta_99696a513c294df794c58ff17be8cf79
- **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_99696a513c294df794c58ff17be8cf79

## Overall (safe to quote)

Case of 12 Bars - FitzRoy 74% Dark Chocolate 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 the brand's public help/about article links to a gluten-free shop category but does not name or describe this bar as gluten-free. Under retained Regulation (EU) No 828/2014, a gluten-free claim is voluntary, needs no third-party certificate, and requires no more than 20 mg of gluten per kg, but no independent product-level testing or certification was retrieved, and no match for the brand was found in the fetchable text of the GFCO or Coeliac UK pages checked. TilliT has not verified this claim and cannot independently confirm it today; 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:** Self-review note: No check of Coeliac UK's own site (the primary UK gluten-free certification body, most relevant to a UK-made chocolate bar) has been attempted, which is a genuinely different registry from GFCO and the most likely place a UK gluten-free certification would appear.

### Organic

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 9/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Product tag: "Organic Bars"”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Organic 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. 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:** 2026-11-27
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Self-review note: The bundle checked several national directories but never checked the Soil Association's own certifier site directly, even though the brand's own help article names Soil Association as one of its certifiers — the single most specific, checkable lead for this UK chocolate brand.

### 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 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:** 2026-11-27
- **Limitation:** The Orthodox Union's own kosher product records classify 'Dark Chocolate 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.

### 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 company-level, facility-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:** 2026-11-27
- **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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