The completely vegan bars of dark chocolate are the culmination of close to ten years of hard work.

Haidy Samuel, founder and manager of Grazel Chocolate, launched a range of chocolate bars that are totally sugar and milk-free and use 100 per cent all-natural ingredients this month, all co-manufactured with various international and national food manufacturers. 

The completely vegan bars of dark chocolate are the culmination of close to ten years of hard work.

It was during an extra-curricular course on nutrition while she was taking her degree at the Faculty of Pharmacology in Cairo in 2011 that Samuel really got interested in healthy food. Healthy eating was starting to find its way in certain quarters in Egypt at the time, but it was not as fashionable as it was to become just a few years down the road.

“I started by making my own sugar-free energy and protein bars that I would consume when I went to the gym,” Samuel said. “I could not find anything that was really 100 percent naturally sweetened at the time, whether imported or locally produced,” she added.

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