Whatever happened to carob?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (183604)
United States
January 10, 2025 11:13am CST
Back in the 70's (ancient history for many here) Carob was being pushed as a chocolate substitute. I am not really sure why, because it doesn't really have much less in the way of calories than chocolate. For awhile carob products were being sold everywhere. Now, you have to hunt for them. The only place I see it sometimes is maybe an ingredient in herbal tea of something. Do you remember the carob craze? Have you had it? Do you like it?
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
10 Jan
I've eaten it in different products. I can see why it never replaced chocolate. It is sometimes an ingredient in herbal teas.
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@sallypup (62134)
• Centralia, Washington
10 Jan
@snowy22315 Some scholars believe that when John the Baptist said he was eating locusts that meant he was eating carob.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
10 Jan
@sallypup Really? How did you come upon that obscure fact?
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
10 Jan
I have tried it a few times, doesn't float my boat. I don't mind it as a tea flavoring though.
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@just4him (318342)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Jan
@snowy22315 I'm glad it works as a tea flavoring.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
11 Jan
@just4him It is one of a variety of ingredients in certain teas.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
10 Jan
It has a similarity to chocolate..but definitely not as sweet.
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@FourWalls (70025)
• United States
10 Jan
It’s still used as a chocolate substitute in chocolate-flavored teas. The reason it never caught on is because chocolate is chocolate, and you can’t fake it! 
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
10 Jan
It isn't just chocolate flavored teas that have it. I have come across it in flavored teas of different varieties. I almost always get some kind of cinnamon spiced tea and sometimes it is in there depending on the brand. It might be my fave Bengal Spice tea that has it in, not sure.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
11 Jan
You aren't missing much. Poor substitute for chocolate
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
11 Jan
@Juliaacv In my opinion, carob is a poor substitute.
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@Juliaacv (51903)
• Canada
11 Jan
@snowy22315 I am not a huge chocolate lover, but I am not one to take substitutes necessarily either.
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@DaddyEvil (138952)
• United States
10 Jan
I remember the carob nuts and raisins. Friends kept telling me it tasted exactly like chocolate but the couple of times I tried it, I didn't like it. It tasted nothing like chocolate to me.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
10 Jan
It has kind of the same dark flavor, but it isn't really sweet like chocolate.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
10 Jan
@DaddyEvil You just can't expect the same sweet deliciousness you have with chocolate.
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@DaddyEvil (138952)
• United States
10 Jan
@snowy22315 True... It had an "off" taste to me that I didn't like.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
11 Jan
Yeah, natural and more nutritious than chocolate I guess. I'm sorry, unless they do something to make it taste better, it is always going to be on the back burner, a poor second cousin of chocolate.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
11 Jan
That would explain it. Your mom may know what it is.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-carob-4775711
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@LindaOHio (183947)
• United States
11 Jan
Yes, I remember the craze. I don't think I ever tried it. Have a good weekend.
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@snowy22315 (183604)
• United States
11 Jan
Thanks, it's OK in tea. You have a good one too.
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@LindaOHio (183947)
• United States
12 Jan
@snowy22315 You're welcome.
Thank you very much.
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