Biscolata Nirvana Hazelnut Roll - How Many Calories?

The 28 g Nirvana hazelnut Roll pack

A 28 g pack of milk-chocolate-coated Nirvana hazelnut Roll provides 155 kcal, 12.71 g sugars and 4.37 g saturated fat. Its slim shape can make the portion look small; the weight on the wrapper is a better guide to the amount eaten.

What is in half a roll?

A weighed 14 g half provides 77 kcal and 6.36 g sugars. The whole pack contains 1.68 g protein and 0.67 g fibre. Having hazelnut pieces does not give a wafer the same nutritional profile as a handful of hazelnuts.

How much of the cream is hazelnut?

The recipe lists 40% milk chocolate, 34% hazelnut cream, 19% wafer and 7% separate hazelnuts. Hazelnuts also make up 3% of the cream. Together, those amounts give about 8.02% hazelnuts in the product, or 2.25 g in a 28 g pack. The cream itself is not entirely ground nuts.

The minimum 30% cocoa-solids declaration applies to the milk chocolate coating. It does not describe the cocoa percentage of the whole wafer.

Does the layered hazelnut wafer have the same recipe?

No. Although the compared layered wafer and Roll both declare 553 kcal per 100 g, a 20 g amount contains 9.08 g sugars in Roll versus 6.68 g in the layered wafer. Equal energy does not establish equal sugar content.

Hazelnuts, milk, soya, wheat gluten and egg are ingredients. The label also warns of possible traces of pistachios, almonds, peanuts, walnuts and sesame.

Source note: Values use the supplier label for the 28 g hazelnut Roll. The sodium entry conflicts in units and with the declared 0.3 g salt, so sodium remains unknown. The older 530.5 kcal formula and unreported micronutrients were not substituted.