Pocket Coffee
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 Opened Pocket Coffee | |
| Product type | Bonbon |
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| Owner | Ferrero SpA |
| Country | Italy |
| Introduced | 1968 |
| Website | ferrero.it/pocketcoffee |
| Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |||||
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| Energy | 1,842 kJ (440 kcal) | ||||
58.8 g (sugar 56.6 g) | |||||
20.5 g | |||||
4.0 g | |||||
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| †Percentages estimated using US recommendations for adults.[1] | |||||
Pocket Coffee is a brand of the Ferrero company for a chocolate confectionery, sold internationally. First marketed in Italy in 1968, each Pocket Coffee is an individually wrapped shell of dark chocolate containing liquid espresso.[2] As with Ferrero's Rocher, Mon Chéri, and Raffaello, production limits sales from November to April.[3]
William Salice, assistant to Ferrero's owner, Michele Ferrero, conceived the product in the early 1960s after noticing no bars at Italy's then relatively new Autogrills, a proprietary eponym synonymous with Italian highway rest stops. Ferrero conceived a product for anyone working long hours, e.g., truck drivers. Michele Ferrero conceived the slogan: "the energy of chocolate and the charge of coffee".[4]
- Coffee (sweetened liquid)
- Chocolate (paste)
- Chocolate milk
- Cocoa butter
- Cocoa paste
- Lactose
