Peace by Chocolate Nitap Bars
Nitap Bars are a fundraising project made in collaboration with and endorsed by the Paq'tnkek Band Council of the Paq'tnkek Mi'kmaw Nation, located just east of Peace By Chocolate in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
$0.25 cents from every sale is donated.
Profits from Nitap (the Mi'kmaw word for "friend" or "buddy") Bars help fund indigenous nitap programming that highlights, celebrates, and helps keep alive important Mi'kmaw community traditions such as drumming, dancing, basket weaving, and elder story telling, as well as traditional outdoor skills like fishing, hunting, canoeing, and tipi rituals.
Nitap Bars are available in 5 delicious flavours: milk chocolate with strawberry cream; milk chocolate with maple cream; milk chocolate with dried cranberries; milk chocolate with hazelnuts; dark chocolate with wild blueberries.
Strawberry Cream Bar:
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, vanilla), Filling (vegetable oil [palm and/or sunflower and/or canola], sugar, skim milk powder, lactose, soy lecithin), Strawberry chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavours, carmine colour), Natural and artificial flavours.
Contains: Milk, Soy.
May contain: Hazelnuts, Almonds, Cashews, Peanuts, Pistachios, Wheat.
Maple Cream Bar:
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, vanilla), Filling (vegetable oil [palm and/or sunflower and/or canola], sugar, skim milk powder, lactose, soy lecithin), Natural and artificial flavours.
Contains: Milk, Soy.
May contain: Hazelnuts, Almonds, Cashews, Peanuts, Pistachios, Wheat.
Cranberry Bar:
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, vanilla), Dried cranberries (cranberries, sugar, citric acid, sunflower oil, elderberry juice concentrate).
Contains: Milk, Soy.
May contain: Hazelnuts, Almonds, Cashews, Peanuts, Pistachios, Wheat.
Hazelnut Bar:
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavour), Hazelnuts.
Contains: Milk, Soy, Hazelnuts.
May contain: Almonds, Cashews, Peanuts, Pistachios, Wheat.
Wild Blueberry Bar:
Ingredients: Dark chocolate (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin), Dried wild blueberries.
Contains: Soy.
May contain: Milk, Hazelnuts, Almonds, Cashews, Peanuts, Pistachios, Wheat.
Peace by Chocolate is a Syrian-Canadian company, based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Prior to being forced to flee from Syria during the country's civil war in 2012, the company's CEO and Founder Tareg Hadhad's father, Essam Hadhad made chocolate in Damascus, Syria for over 20 years. After immigrating to Nova Scotia in 2016, Tareq Hadhad reopened the family's chocolatier business.
