# Dandelion Chocolate Japan DCJ - Zorzal Comunitario, Dominican Republic 70% 2024 Harvest Single-Origin Chocolate Bar — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Dandelion Chocolate Japan
- **Product:** DCJ - Zorzal Comunitario, Dominican Republic 70% 2024 Harvest Single-Origin Chocolate Bar
- **Sold at:** dandelionchocolate.com
- **Product page:** https://dandelionchocolate.com/products/zorzal-comunitario-dominican-republic-70-chocolate-bar-japan
- **Assessment ID:** pta_c3b9c408752b4e3aa7f77fcdd19c310a
- **Assessed:** 2026-11-06
- **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_c3b9c408752b4e3aa7f77fcdd19c310a

## Overall (safe to quote)

DCJ - Zorzal Comunitario, Dominican Republic 70% 2024 Harvest Single-Origin Chocolate Bar by Dandelion Chocolate Japan — 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:** “ready to enjoy for many months. Vegan Gluten Free Nut Free Soy Free Two Ingredients Direct Sourced 70”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page publicly displays a gluten-free claim, and the product names Celiac Support Association and National Celiac Association as certifiers, but no match for 'Dandelion Chocolate Japan' was found in the fetchable text of those certifiers' public sites or the GFCO certified products page. The ingredient list was not retrieved, so no ingredient check was completed, and no independent product-level testing or certification was found in the sources checked. This reflects a gap in the public evidence retrieved, not a conclusion about the label.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-04
- **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: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Self-review note: No check of the major third-party gluten-free certifier registries (e.g. Celiac Support Association, National Celiac Association, Coeliac UK, GIG, NSF, SCS, AOECS) has been attempted beyond GFCO, so a certification held under one of these bodies would be missed.

### Allergen-Free

- **Status:** Preliminary — a person is still reviewing this (`preliminary`)
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Claims free of: peanut free, soy free, tree nut free”
- **Safe citation wording:** Preliminary — awaiting TilliT review: The product page states the item is free of peanut, soy, and tree nut allergens, and a brand article describes a two-ingredient chocolate sourcing approach; no independent allergen-free certificate for this exact item and no batch-specific public evidence were retrieved in the sources checked. Because "allergen-free" has no single regulatory definition in the US, the claim should be read as scoped to the specific allergens named rather than as a general allergen-free status. The public-evidence score reflects how much independent proof was found and does not establish that the product is allergen-free.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-27
- **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:** This is a claim about specific allergens (peanut-free, soy-free, tree-nut-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:** 37/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “of Chocolate Thanksgiving Subscriptions Baked Goods Vegan Toffee Tours & Events Tours & Events Factory Tours”
- **Certifier named:** Vegan Action
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Vegan 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 company-level, product-level. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. In the main markets TilliT checks, this claim can legally be self-declared, with no required independent testing. 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:** 2026-12-06
- **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.

## Machine-readable versions

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_Generated 2026-11-06T16:07:54+00:00 from assessment pta_c3b9c408752b4e3aa7f77fcdd19c310a._