Buttermilk Confections has urgently recalled its Honeycomb Blast Choc Bar after safety fears that it may contain milk, even though the bar is sold as a dairy-free, plant-based option.
The Food Standards Agency warned that people with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents should not eat the product. The batch involved is BM26105, with a best before date of June 15 2027, and customers have been told to return it to the store where they bought it for a full refund.
The recall matters because the company specializes in dairy-free products and markets the bar as a safe alternative to most chocolate bars, with its website saying it contains no dairy, no gluten and no palm oil. That makes the finding more than a routine label correction. It puts a product aimed at people avoiding animal ingredients directly at odds with the warning now attached to it.
The issue is undeclared milk content, listed by the agency as casein, which can trigger a reaction in anyone with a milk allergy or intolerance. For those shoppers, the difference between a bar advertised as plant-based and one that may contain milk is not a matter of branding. It is the difference between a snack and a possible health risk.
So far, there is no public word on how many bars were sold or whether anyone has become ill. What is clear is that the product has been pulled and consumers who bought batch BM26105 are being directed to take it back for a refund, while the recall joins a growing run of recent chocolate safety alerts, including a separate salmonella recall involving all 12 Spring & Mulberry chocolate bars.
For customers with milk allergies, the next step is simple: check the wrapper, avoid the bar if the code matches, and return it. The question that remains is not whether the warning is serious. It is how a product built around being dairy-free ended up carrying milk in the first place.
