A couple of days ago, I picked up a pound of Caffe Vita’s Theo Blend coffee. Even though I’m a dedicated label reader (due to my vegan-osity), I occasionally miss things. Case in point: I didn’t realize until I was putting my groceries away at home that this particular coffee is a blend of Caffe Vita coffee and Theo chocolate.<\/p>\n
My friend Kaitlin and I had visited Theo’s factory\/store in Fremont a year or so ago. From what I remember, Theo didn’t have much of a selection of vegan chocolates at that time, so I was concerned that the coffee might not be vegan.<\/p>\n
I researched the product on both the Caffe Vita<\/a><\/strong> and Theo<\/a><\/strong> Web sites and didn’t find a detailed list of ingredients for either the coffee or the dark chocolate blended into it. So I sent an e-mail to Theo.<\/p>\n I received a response in less than 24 hours. According to Theo, Caffe Vita’s Theo Blend coffee<\/a><\/strong> is vegan and doesn’t contain chocolate; the name reflects a partnership between the two companies. This is also represented in the Theo’s Coffee Dark Chocolate bar<\/a><\/strong>, which is vegan and contains coffee from Caffe Vita.<\/p>\n The following Theo products are also vegan* although they might not be designated as vegan on the Web site: In addition, the person who responded to my inquiry (Dave) said to feel free to contact Theo with any further questions about any of their products. Also, from what I recall, the labels on the actual bars or boxes of chocolate list all of the ingredients.<\/p>\n * Disclaimer: Dave let me know that the vegan chocolates are processed on the same equipment that’s used to process the non-vegan products. However, the equipment is cleaned thoroughly between batches and it’s pretty likely that the vegan chocolates don’t pick up any trace non-vegan ingredients.<\/p>\n I haven’t tried the Theo Blend coffee yet \u2026 stay tuned …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of days ago, I picked up a pound of Caffe Vita’s Theo Blend coffee. Even though I’m a dedicated label reader (due to my vegan-osity), I occasionally miss things. Case in point: I didn’t realize until I was putting my groceries away at home that this particular coffee is a blend of Caffe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-seattle-stuff","category-veganvegetarian-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n * Theo Phinney Fig, Fennel & Almond bar<\/a><\/strong>
\n * Theo Origin Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Blended, Ghana and Venezuela bars<\/a><\/strong>
\n * The Classic Combination Mint, Orange and Cherry & Almond bars<\/a><\/strong>
\n * Theo\/Nicobella truffles<\/a><\/strong>
\n * Theo dark chocolate is free of milk fat and other dairy ingredients<\/p>\n