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Ferrero Canada has confirmed Kinder Bueno Mini as the 2021 Product of the Year winner in the Mini Chocolate category, based on key consumer studies. The contest is considered the largest consumer-voted award for product innovation, chosen by 4,000 Canadian shoppers in a national survey conducted by the Kantar global research group. Icelandic-based bean to bar manufacturer Omnom's popular Easter bunny is reportedly taking a year off this April's festivities - but he's left another treat in for a mango-passion and milk chocolate almonds to celebrate. The company, based in Reykjavik, has honed its bean-to-bar operation over the past eight years, sourcing its cocoa from key sustainable operations including from smallholder farmers in Madagascar, Tanzania and Nicaragua. Its latest creation mixes the acidity of passion fruit and the fruitiness of mango to blend with the texture and sweet flavour of milk chocolate, and toasted almonds. US-based sustainable palm fruit extract specialist Phe-nolaeis has unveiled a new series of nutritionally-enriched dark chocolate in response to rising demand for premium wellbeing ranges. As the company explained to Confectionery Production, the 72% series of functional cacao bars targets the healthier options market, with its series having enhanced plant-based polyphenol organic compound content with claimed health benefits. According to the business, palm fruit is considered as a new superfruit derived from oil palm fruit using solvent-free, minimally processed handling. This water-soluble, non-GMO plant complex is composed of at least five natural polyphe-nols, fibres, carbohydrates and protein.