From rice powder to oat milk, we test three advent calendars with a healthier twist

THE countdown to Xmas is on and there are some incredible and delicious introduction calendars on the sector.

You can come across kinds packed with just about every-factor from booze and mince pies, to pork scratchings and cheese.

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But if you are searching to tick off the winter days with a much healthier twist there are some variations that are truly worth a whirl.

Jane Atkinson set some of them to the test . . . 

RICE POWDER

AS bizarre as it might sound, rice milk is effective seriously perfectly in chocolate as it is a neutral flavour so sucks up the cocoa and sugar preferences – just like it does in the Nomo introduction calendar.

It is loaded with 24 compact petal-shaped chocolate drops that are dairy, gluten, egg and nut-totally free and made from sugar, cocoa butter, rice powder, cocoa mass, shea oil, emulsifier, sea salt and flavourings.

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I love the fact that as perfectly as the sugar and unwanted fat information it also has prebiotic inulin which is excellent for the intestine.

The chocolates consist of 20 for every cent saturated extra fat and 33 for every cent sugar.

They have a slight chewy texture but pack a loaded flavour.

Because these are not individually, it has helped to continue to keep the cost down.

Nomo arrival calendar, £5, hollandandbarrett.com.

CREAMED COCONUT

THE Ombar Tremendous Chocolate Advent calendar has 25 tremendous-cute, independently wrapped 5g mini bars produced from creamed coconut and coconut butter.

They come in simple coconut flavours additionally Pistachio, Raspberry & Vanilla and Hazelnut Truffle.

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Each is designed with cacao, which contains antioxidant-abundant flavonoids which battle the absolutely free radicals that hurt cells in the physique.

Some coconut chocolate can taste greasy and overpowering but this is remarkably refined.

I appreciate the way the calendar opens up like a card, meaning it stands on its own.

But the price lets it down, at 3 times the price of the rice calendar.

The chocolate bars are 29 for every cent saturated body fat, 31 per cent sugar and 125g web fat.

£14.99, ombar.com.

OAT MILK

OAT-milk chocolate model H!P (Joy in Crops) has produced a calendar applying sustainably sourced oat milk, which also has a lessen carbon footprint versus dairy milk.

Extra to that, it’s really fully plastic-no cost.

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The calendar is manufactured working with 41 for every cent sustainably sourced, solitary-origin Colombian chocolate and arrives in four different flavours – Creamy Authentic, Salted Caramel, Gingerbread and Orange.

This is my favourite of the three simply because they have these kinds of festive flavours.

But it is superior on the sugar at 40 per cent and 20 per cent saturated fat. But hey-ho, it is Christmas just after all.

£10, hipchocolate.com