Cadbury Dairy Milk

I used to love Cadbury chocolate. Since their takeover by Mondelez International, the quality and taste has deteriorated along with some sneaky shrinkage. I now refuse to buy any Cadbury product. Why do large conglomerates always take great products and ruin them? Show details

Hi, I’m writing as someone who has loved Cadbury Dairy Milk plain chocolate for almost 50 years. I genuinely want to understand why the recipe has changed so significantly over the past few years. To me, the flavour and texture are now so different that I no longer enjoy eating it, and I find myself avoiding Cadbury chocolate altogether. That's… Read more

disappointing, because Dairy Milk has been my favourite chocolate for most of my life.

I completely understand the commercial pressures businesses face. Cocoa prices have risen dramatically, and I appreciate that manufacturers have to deal with increasing costs, shrinkflation, and other financial challenges. However, changing the core recipe to the point where loyal customers no longer enjoy the product seems like a risky long-term decision.

From what I've seen, I'm certainly not alone in feeling this way. ProductReview.com.au currently has a very low customer rating, with thousands of reviews averaging around 1.5 stars. While online reviews don't tell the whole story, they do suggest that many long-time customers have noticed similar changes.

I'd much rather pay a little more for the original Dairy Milk recipe than buy a cheaper version that no longer tastes like the chocolate I grew up with. For me, the flavour was what made Cadbury special.

I hope this feedback reaches the people responsible for product development. I'm not writing simply to complain—I genuinely miss the Cadbury Dairy Milk I enjoyed for decades, and I hope you'll consider listening to the many loyal customers who feel the same way.

Thank you for taking the time to read my feedback.

Kind regards

I used to love this chocolate bc it was so creamy and rich. I stopped eating it for 5 years bc of it's soy content, then I tried it again recently and it is revolting. It's hard and waxy like those cheap chocolates that pop up at Easter time. It leaves a greasy feeling on your tongue, which never used to happen before they scabbed out on… Read more

ingredients. When a chocolate is perfect in every way why would u annihilate it with inferior ingredients? No more Cadbury rubbish for me.

Cadbury is the best chocolate there's no substitute. Everyone raves about Whittaker chocolate so I tried it the other day, I just don't like it's flavour I'll stick Cadbury chocolate

Good Adverts on TV – Many companies have adverts where the male is shown to be the buffoon and made to look silly by his female partner. Cadbury adverts show men in a good light who are respectful and caring which is very refreshing.....great adverts Show details

Much better – Just bought Cadbury plain chocolate New recipe and have to say it tasted great it finally tastes like chocolate without the sugary taste and its extra smooth when you let it melt in your mouth. Well done Cadbury Show details

I, along with others no doubt are sick and tired of Cadbury downsizing their blocks whilst charging the same price! The larger blocks, which were 360gms are now 315gms. Still getting charged $8.50 at Woolworths and Coles. Look at the smaller block. Used to be 250gms, then went to 220gms, then 200gms and now 180gms! Show details

Don't even think about buying let alone eating this chemical laden chocolate. The new recipe is terrible, no more glass and a half of full cream milk but palm sugar & other unhealthy ingredients. I certainly won't be purchasing any further cadbury products. Show details

Every cadbury chocolate is tasting horrible toooo sweet recipe has changed absolutely grossly taste, come on big CEO s and owners you are running the business in wrong direction surely the reviews tell a story.

The recipe changes have rendered this chocolate to inedible. The last big block I bought was horrible beyond measure. I ate a little, spat it out rather than swallowing, and threw the rest of the block away. Cadbury chocolate used to be delicious, it used to be advertised as having “a glass and a half of full cream dairy milk in every 200 gram block”, Now it just tastes of chemical poisons. Ruined!!!

Dear Cadbury ,, your chocolate now taste's like $2 generic brand chocolate,, so why nonsense the public with the excuse of price hikes for your ingredients,, when you all did was buy cheaper ingredients and put the price up 40%. You GREEDY PIGS are not loyal to the Australian Public. Show details

One bite and it was too sickly and I didn't wont to eat it....and that should be the opperste for chocolate. There is not one little taste of chocolate.. Nothing, just tastes like artificial sugar... Gives headaches and makes you feel sick and I'm not exaggerating. There has to be something bad in it. I stopped buying from you years ago and would… Read more

occasionally buy one on special. but now it's definitely etched in my mind the childhood memories are gone.

Let's cut corners & totally ruin an great brand to make more profits , that no-one is buying anymore .. brilliant. When will U.S companies realise that being excessively greedy is just gonna come back to bite them in the backside! Cadbury was the best tasting & best selling chocolate in the world , which would have generated great profits & there… Read more

was no reason to ever play around with the recipe or try to alter the ingredients , whatsoever .. but excessive greed! . Either go back to the quality from the 1970"s - 80's or sell it to someone who will bring the quality back

Absolutely disgusting tastes like oil smells like oil got bought an Easter egg never tasted anything as disgusting as your chocolate how the company that’s taken over has spoilt uk chocolate for a bigger profit Show details

I thought I might buy a plain block of cadbury because it would have less sugar than caramel. It seems that the chocolate recipe changes for the plain block. Why else would the sugar content exceed or match those filled with a sweet goo? Either way the plain milk chocolate is MORE than half sugar. 45% of 180g of chocolate is $8 full price. •Now… Read more

a kilo of sugar is a dollar or 2, meaning 180g is approx. $0.20 •Milk powder, $10/kg, $2/180g. •Cocoa is only approx. $25/kilo, meaning approx $5/180g. •Cacao butter can be bought for around $50/kilo, meaning approx. $10/180g.

Obviously there is a cost to make it but also big companies have access to buy things much cheaper than us. Let's add these 4 approx. costs and divide by 4 to keep it at 180g worth. Keep in mind an extra 20g is in the calculation, 20g which was taxed from the block before. $17.20÷4=$4.30.

What is the profit when we consider 20g was stolen and that this is going off local prices, not commercial prices? At LEAST half the block is sugar so we can say that we are paying $4 for 100g of sugar if we pay the full $8.

No flavour, taste burnt - Caramello use to be the best, sadly 2025 cabrary has forgotten how to produce good choc- just yuk !!! Never buy again - quality had gone down hill . Show details

My family and I have just shared a block of velvety Cadbury chocolate ……. Yikes what the !!!!!!!!!!!!! The flavour was nothing like the usual tasting great chocolate …… Such was the after taste that we all turned our noses up in unison and grabbed a glass of water …. If this is what Cadbury is producing from now on I’ll be thinking twice about … Read more

purchasing its product ever again . It was terrible and totally destroyed the pleasureable usual experience of downing a big piece of yummy chocolate !

Boo hoo !!!!!!!!!!!!!

This evening, while discussing how hypocritical, contradictory and fake the the world is, I took a bite into what I have trusted for years to be Cadury Old Gold. To my shock, I tasted a minty flavour subtly mixed into the flavour of my "dark chocolate".. I must admit, I LOVE chocolate and mint... BUT ON MY TERMS. Utterly baffled and disgusted in… Read more

the lack of quality control, quality standards and lack of actual mint flavour in the block of Cadbury Old Gold.... wow. 1 star and you've lost yourself a customer..

Hi all, thanks for reducing the size of the blocks and increasing the cost. I was a daily consumer of these products, but now I have successfully weaned myself off the product and no long consume Cadbury at all! I didn't think this was possible, but thanks!! I feel healthier and have more money too...

Today i was in my favorite rip of supermarket Woolworth's,and i was having a look at the Cadbury Chocolate bars.The large bar Cadbury Dairy Milk Large Chocolate Block 315g,is now $8.50 and has shrunk 45grams,i would say a year or this bar was selling for $6 for 360 gram bar,so this is a massive increase and for less chocolate.There is zero control… Read more

now,and they just jack there prices all the time,so i decide for there greed i wont be buying this type of chocolate anymore,so you wont be ripping me of anymore at least not for chocolate anyway

Cadbury chocolate blocks are smaller and dearer and don't taste the same. A total rip off. I used to love the marvellous creations popping candy but there's no popping about the candy in the blocks now. I have bought several blocks from different stores at different times in case I had ended up with a bad production run. But, no. They all just… Read more

tasted like chocolate mixed with m&m type candy. It is dismal, disappointing and disgustingly poor quality. Shame on you Cadbury!

I used to eat one block of Cadbury's every week when the block was 250 grams. Now has shrunk to a very unsatisfying 180 grams and still increasing in price, so no more. The upside is my waistline is shrinking along with the block size. Show details

340g dairy milk block has increased in price from AUD6 to AUD7 to AUD8 recently. NOW the price has increased to AUD8.50 or AUD9 for 315g. Same size block but noticeably thinner chocolate squares. Outrageous shrinkflation. Show details