Create allergy card
← Browse ingredients

Peppermint Chocolate

Peppermint chocolate is chocolate flavored with peppermint and commonly used in confectionery, desserts, and baking.

Peppermint Chocolate — illustrative ingredient image

About Peppermint Chocolate

Peppermint chocolate is a chocolate confection or ingredient flavored with peppermint, commonly through peppermint oil, extract, flavoring, or peppermint pieces. It is used in confectionery, cookies, cakes, brownies, mousses, hot drinks, and dessert toppings.

A cooling mint aroma overlays a cocoa-based flavor. Depending on the chocolate and format, texture may be solid and snappy, creamy, filled, or crisp when inclusions are present; it may also be dark, milk, or white chocolate.

It may have a smooth, glossy or matte appearance and is sold as bars, coated pieces, filled chocolates, baking chips, or blocks for melting. Melting makes it fluid for mixing or coating, while peppermint pieces or other inclusions retain added texture in the finished preparation.

Ingredient type
compound ingredient

Forms & related ingredients

FOLLOW IT TO THE PLATE

Where will you meet it?

Explore the dishes that use this ingredient and their country and cuisine connections.

Explore linked dishes

ON A MENU OR LABEL

Find local names and written forms to help recognise this ingredient.

See local names

Where peppermint chocolate appears

1 linked foods

Find foods to recognise by country and type. Recipes and products vary; these are recorded ingredient connections.

Showing 1–1 of 1

Desserts

Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

Name examples awaiting language review. Confirm the specific food or product.

Local names for peppermint chocolate

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

peppermint chocolate

Available names only. Languages may be spoken in other countries; a name alone does not identify every ingredient in a dish.

Peppermint Chocolate nutrition & diet

Peppermint Chocolate nutritional value

Reference: Milk chocolate

Per 100 g of 100 g edible portion in the named official reference form.

Calories
537kcal
Protein
6.5g
Carbs
56.9g
Fat
31.1g

Official national food-composition reference. The displayed food form is part of the estimate; cultivar, recipe, brand, processing and preparation can change values.

Portions & preparation

Match the chocolate’s cocoa percentage, peppermint flavoring, and serving form, such as bar, chips, filling, or coating. Preparation matters because added cream, sugar, wafers, nuts, or other inclusions can substantially change the ingredient profile and the amount eaten per serving.

Compare the right form: Match peppermint-flavored chocolate in the exact form analyzed—bar, chips, baking piece, coating, or filled confection—and include inclusions.

Diet considerations

The base is plant-derived from cocoa, but conventional peppermint chocolate may contain dairy ingredients and can include eggs, gelatin, nuts, or cereal-based inclusions. Vegan or vegetarian compatibility therefore depends on the formulation and processing, while portion size and accompanying dessert ingredients affect carbohydrate patterns.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Depends on the version
  • Vegetarian
    Depends on the version
  • Pescatarian
    Depends on the version
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Depends on the version
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Sugar; Dark Chocolate. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Vegetarian · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Sugar; Dark Chocolate. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Pescatarian · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Sugar; Dark Chocolate. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Depends on the version
Optional or variable recorded ingredients: Sugar. This profile falls outside the conventional paleo pattern used here (grains and pseudograins, legumes, dairy or refined sugar). Recipes and products can differ.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

AI-generated illustration for visual context. It does not identify a particular product or establish allergen content.

Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Swiss Food Composition Database 7.1 (2026) — 195 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

Last recorded verification: .