28 Ritter Sport Flavors: Ranked and Rated

We tasted 28 Ritter Sport flavors, including classics like Marzipan and limited editions like Matcha Strawberry, and ranked every chocolate square. Find out which Ritter bars we’ll happily buy again and which ones we’ll leave on the supermarket shelf.

Ritter Sport bars may be the confectionery equivalent of the original Volkswagen Beetle. Though seemingly simple, the German vehicle could be customized to each person’s taste or fancy. The same concept applies to this German candy bar.

Maybe you’ve recently discovered Ritter Sport bars at your local Target or grocery store. Or maybe, like us, you fell in love with unique flavors like Cornflakes and Butter Biscuit decades ago. Either way, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the dozens of Ritter Sport flavors, some of which vary from year to year.

🔓 Key Takeaways

• Our top three Ritter Sport flavors are Cornflakes, Meine Kreation (our custom bar) and Alpine Milk Chocolate.
• Ritter Sport bars are square chocolate bars. They’re produced in Germany and sold around the world. Each standard bar is 100 grams (i.e., 3.5 ounces).
• Ritter produces its bars with 100% certified cocoa sourced from over 20,000 partner farms in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nicaragua, Nigeria and Peru.
• Most milk chocolate Ritter Sport flavors contain 30% cocoa solids, while most dark chocolate Ritter Sport flavors contain 50% cocoa solids. White chocolate Ritter Sport bars contain cocoa butter but no cocoa mass.
• Ritter Sport flavor names vary by country. Germany’s Rum Trauben Nuss is called Rum Uvetta e Nocciole in Italy and Rum Raisins Hazelnuts in the USA.
• You can make your own custom bar at a Ritter Sport Bunte SchokoWelt in either Berlin or Waldenbuch.

The Ritter Sport bar’s history goes back to 1912 when Alfred and Clara Ritter founded the German candy company in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. Things got real two decades later when the duo started selling square-shaped, 100-gram Ritter Sport Schokolade bars that could easily slip inside sport jacket pockets. While the company has evolved over the years, the fourth generation remains involved. Plus, Ritter Sport bars are still the same shape and size.

Not only do most Germans know the Ritter Sport three-word slogan by heart, but they also know the best way to open a Ritter Sport bar wrapper. (As shown in countless online videos, the key is to bend the bar until the colorful wrapper’s back seam snaps open. Once open, it’s customary to break up the bar into pieces, like nuts in a bag, to be eaten one at a time.) Many Germans have their favorite flavors, some of which have been around for decades and others that are more recent creations.

Fun Fact
Ritter Sport’s three-word slogan ‘Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.’ translates to ‘Square. Practical. Good.’

Ritter sells around 40 flavors at any given time, plus limited editions and country-specific bars that rotate in and out of supermarkets. While the most popular Ritter Sport bars are pure decadence, the company has recently added high-protein bars and vegan bars to its portfolio.

We started buying various Ritter bars a few years ago in Lisbon to satisfy our nostalgic chocolate cravings. That was just the beginning. Before long, we started seeking out different flavors both at home and during our travels. We eventually hit the motherlode at the Ritter Sport Bunte SchokoWelt in Berlin. Not only did we discover new-to-us flavors at Ritter’s retail chocolate world, but we also designed a custom candy bar during our visit.

We judged every bar on three things: flavor, texture and whether we’d buy it again. But first, we tasted each bar at room temperature and ate at least two squares each. Sometimes we quickly agreed on the ranking. Other times, we negotiated the ranking based on our personal tastes and preferences. The process spanned a couple of years while we acquired various flavors at home and during our travels.

Read on to discover our Ritter Sport bar rankings and ratings. Your opinions may be different from ours. For example, you may dislike marzipan as much as Daryl dislikes peppermint. That’s okay. Ritter Sport bars are affordable enough that you can run your own mini taste test for the price of a lunch.

1. Cornflakes

Name in Germany: Knusperflakes
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Golden Yellow

The Ritter Sport Cornflakes bar is a milk chocolate bar that’s packed with crunchy cornflakes. This flavor served as our Ritter Sport introduction when we discovered the sweet, crunchy bar in Philadelphia, and it still makes us smile. Considering the ubiquity of cornflakes in the USA, we’re surprised a wonderful candy bar like this wasn’t invented and marketed sooner by global candy giants like Hershey and Nestlé.

German kids have loved this flavor since 1992 as a fun afternoon treat. Although it’s loaded with cereal, we don’t recommend eating this bar for breakfast. True confession: We prefer the Ritter Sport Tortilla bar, but we haven’t encountered that flavor for years.

Name in Germany: Meine Kreation
Cocoa Solids Percentage: Varies
Wrapper Color: Multi-Color

You can’t buy a Meine Kreation bar at grocery stores or your local Target. Instead, it’s a bar that you must personally design at Ritter Sport’s Bunte SchokoWelt in either Berlin or Waldenbuch. This design process involves picking a chocolate base, choosing a couple of mix-ins and watching a chocolatier make your bar in the shop.

We went full German when we built our bar with a milk chocolate base plus pretzel and gummy mix-ins. Is it cheating to rank our own creation so high on this list? Maybe. But no other bar in this guide was as fun to acquire or to eat.

Name in Germany: Alpenmilch
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Sky Blue

While Alpine Milk Chocolate isn’t Ritter Sport’s only milk chocolate flavor, it’s our favorite due to its combination of Alpine milk and sustainable cocoa. The bar debuted in 1984 and quickly became a popular flavor around the world.

We previously milked a cow in Trentino and spent a week eating dairy products in Alto Adige. Maybe that’s why we love this flavor so much. Or perhaps it’s because we’re chocolate purists who prefer quality over flash. We like to think it’s a combination of the two.

Name in Germany: Smarties in Weisser Schokolade
Cocoa Solids Percentage: N/A
Wrapper Color: Pale Yellow

Ritter brought its limited-edition Smarties bars back in 2023 after a prolonged hiatus. We taste-tested the white chocolate flavor and found it to be the polar opposite of solid bars. Instead of focusing on the purity of milk or dark chocolate, this flavor is all about fun.

We smiled when we opened the colorful bar and kept smiling as we ate it. The candy-coated, chocolate-filled Nestlé Smarties add a sweet crunch that plays well against the bar’s creamy white chocolate. It’s a British-German candy mashup that works.

Fun Fact
The candy-coated, chocolate-filled Smarties in this chocolate bar are different from the tart, fruit-flavored Smarties sold in the USA. They’re more similar to M&Ms.

Name in Germany: Halbbitter
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 50%
Wrapper Color: Burgundy

Made with Nicaraguan cocoa beans, Ritter’s dark chocolate has a mild dark flavor that’s more semisweet than bittersweet. It’s barely dark enough to be considered dark chocolate. (Our sweet spot for dark chocolate is 65 to 70%. Sometimes, we go even higher.)

The Ritter Sport Dark Chocolate bar, which dates back to 1950, is pleasant and easy to eat; however, it lacks the depth of dark chocolate bars produced by Callebaut, Lindt and Valrhona. Perhaps that’s why Ritter has introduced a Fine Dark Cocoa line with cocoa levels ranging from 55% to 81%.

Name in Germany: Butterkeks
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Cocoa Brown

The Butter Biscuit name only tells part of this flavor’s story. While this bar contains a butter biscuit as advertised, it also has chocolate cream inside its milk chocolate shell. However, the biscuit is what has made the bar unique since it debuted in 1998. That biscuit is essentially a single, square-shaped cookie, not crumbled cookie pieces.

The bar we purchased in Italy was called Biscotto. It would have been called Butterkeks if we had bought it in Germany. Regardless of the name, we like Ritter’s cookie-candy bar on its own and even more when we dip it in coffee.

Name in Germany: Pistazie
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Lime Green

Pistachio became a popular candy ingredient after Dubai chocolate became an international sensation in 2024. While that viral flavor combines chocolate with knafeh pastry and pistachio paste, Ritter goes in a different direction by pairing milk chocolate with roasted, salted pistachios.

Originally a limited-edition bar when it debuted in 2024, the Ritter Sport Pistachio bar is simultaneously sweet, nutty and salty. We like that it’s loaded with chopped nuts instead of fillers and food coloring. Considering that the bar is now a permanent part of the company’s Nut Selection line, other people must like it too.

Name in Germany: Matcha Strawberry
Cocoa Solids Percentage: N/A
Wrapper Color: Pastel Pink

Launched in Germany in 2025 before going global the following year, the Ritter Sport Matcha Strawberry bar is Ritter’s nod to the matcha craze. We didn’t expect to love the trendy flavor that combines white chocolate with strawberry cream, matcha green tea and freeze-dried strawberry pieces. However, the limited-edition strawberry-matcha bar landed in our top ten.

Don’t be deceived by this bar’s fanciful pink and green coloring. Matcha powder provides an herbal earthiness that keeps the white chocolate from tasting too sweet, while strawberry bits add a tart pop. We’re now inspired to try Lindt’s Tokyo Style Matcha Strawberry flavor to see how the two bars compare.

Name in Germany: Voll-Nuss
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Hazelnut Brown

The Ritter Sport Whole Hazelnuts bar packs whole hazelnuts into every milk chocolate square. It’s been a top flavor since it debuted in 1968, so it’s no surprise that Ritter now produces dark and white chocolate bars with whole hazelnuts.

We agree to disagree about this flavor. While Daryl appreciates the multitude of whole roasted hazelnuts in each bar, Mindi finds it overly nut-forward. We’ll probably feel the same when we taste-test the Ritter Sport Whole Almond bar.

Name in Germany: Marzipan
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 50%
Wrapper Color: Red

Although marzipan is a staple at German bakeries, we typically find the almond confection too sweet for our liking. However, that’s not the case with Ritter. Its marzipan bar is worth trying, even if you’re not typically on team marzipan.

The Ritter Sport Marzipan bar’s filling is generous enough that every bite tastes like marzipan, while its mild dark chocolate keeps the sweet almond paste in check. Perhaps that’s why it’s one of the brand’s longest-running flavors. Marzipan has been on the Ritter roster since 1935!

Name in Germany: Orange
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 50%
Wrapper Color: Orange

While we appreciate that Ritter has introduced a Dark Chocolate Almond and Orange bar, we’re partial to the brand’s Ritter Sport Orange bar that debuted in 2022. It’s a deceptively simple dark chocolate bar that’s filled with orange-flavored fondant.

Ritter isn’t the only candy company that pairs chocolate with orange. Cadbury, KitKat and Terry’s sell chocolate-orange candies too. However, Ritter Sport’s almond-free orange bar is the one that hits our sweet spot. We love the bar’s creamy filling and its bright citrus flavor.

Name in Germany: Salted Caramel
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Bright Yellow

Salted caramel has been one of the most popular dessert flavors for two decades. Better late than never, Ritter joined the party in 2022 when it started selling a bar with milk chocolate and crunchy, salted caramel pieces. The following year, the company added a dairy-free Salted Caramel bar to its vegan line.

While we haven’t yet taste-tested the vegan version, we’re big fans of Ritter’s original Salted Caramel bar. It has enough salty caramel to satisfy our sweet, salty and crunchy cravings in every bite.

Name in Germany: Crunchy Brezel
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Bright Orange

The Crunchy Pretzel bar debuted in 2024 as part of Ritter Sport’s Tasty Vibes collection. Stuffed with pretzel pieces and cornflakes, it’s since made appearances both in Europe and across the pond in the USA.

This groovy bar reminds us of chocolate-covered pretzels that we used to eat in Philadelphia. It’s another Ritter Sport bar that’s simultaneously sweet, salty and crunchy.

Name in Germany: Edel-Vollmilch
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 35%
Wrapper Color: Royal Blue

Don’t confuse the Ritter Sport Fine Milk Chocolate bar with the Ritter Sport Alpine Milk Chocolate bar. Both bars come in blue wrappers, but they’re not the same. The Fine Milk bar has 35% cocoa, compared to Alpine Milk’s 30%, and its cocoa beans are sourced from Peru instead of Nicaragua. Plus, its milk isn’t from the Alps.

We tasted the two milk bars side by side and preferred the Alpine Milk Chocolate bar. Both are solid milk chocolate bars. However, when it comes to milk chocolate, creaminess is key. And, in our opinion, Fine Milk Chocolate isn’t as creamy as Alpine Milk Chocolate.

Name in Germany: Nugat
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Midnight Blue

Ritter nougat isn’t the chewy white filling we grew up eating in American candy bars. Instead, German nougat is a sweet hazelnut praline paste that’s similar to Nutella. However, unlike Nutella, the nougat inside the Ritter Sport Praline bar doesn’t have any added palm oil.

We find this bar to be smooth, sweet and nutty. It’s a solid choice for anyone who loves eating hazelnut and chocolate together. We like it, but we’d like it more if the nut flavor was more pronounced.

Name in Germany: Honig-Salz-Mandel
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Vibrant Orange

Ritter’s Honey Salted Almonds bar delivers the goods. Popular since it hit the shelves in 2015, this sweet-and-salty bar combines milk chocolate with whole honey-roasted almonds and a touch of sea salt.

We like this bar. The smattering of honey-roasted nuts doesn’t overpower its buttery chocolate flavor. And while the flavor skews more sweet than salty, there’s just enough salt to keep things balanced.

Name in Germany: Pfefferminz
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 50%
Wrapper Color: Mint Green

A permanent flavor since 1982, Ritter’s Peppermint bar pairs mild dark chocolate with soft peppermint fondant. Natural peppermint oils give the fondant a refreshing flavor that’s hard for peppermint lovers to resist.

This is another flavor where we disagree. It’s no surprise that Daryl dislikes the Ritter Sport Peppermint bar since he’s not a fan of any chocolate-mint combination. Since Mindi enjoys candies like the York Peppermint Pattie and Andes Mints, she gives it a more favorable rating.

Name in Germany: Weisse Crisp
Cocoa Solids Percentage: N/A
Wrapper Color: Cream

A permanent flavor that debuted in 2011, Ritter’s White Crisp bar mixes both cornflakes and rice flakes into a white chocolate base. It sounds similar to the Ritter Sport Cornflakes bar, but the two cereal-filled bars aren’t the same.

While the Cornflakes bar is well-balanced with its milk chocolate and cornflake combination, the White Crisp bar is far sweeter, with the dominant flavor being white chocolate. Since we like white chocolate, we like this crispy bar. You may agree or disagree based on your chocolate preference.

Name in Germany: Rum Trauben Nuss
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Crimson Red

Popular in Germany since it debuted in 1964, Ritter’s Rum Raisins Hazelnuts bar is packed with both rum-soaked raisins and chopped hazelnuts.

After buying one in Italy, where it’s called Rum Uvetta e Nocciole, we were pleasantly surprised to smell Jamaican rum as soon as we opened the wrapper. And while the bar’s taste is milder than its aroma, we wouldn’t serve one to kids due to the rum-soaked raisins.

Name in Germany: Weisse Zimt Crisp
Cocoa Solids Percentage: N/A
Wrapper Color: Bright Peach

First sold in 2014, the White Cinnamon Crisp bar blends white chocolate with cinnamon puffed rice crisps. It’s a seasonal Winter Creation bar that Ritter doesn’t release every year, so grab one when you see it.

We enjoyed eating this bar from the first square to the last. It’s sweet, creamy and crunchy. It’s also a little bit spicy. Eating the bar reminds us of a warm hug on a cold winter day.

Name in Germany: White Lemon
Cocoa Solids Percentage: N/A
Wrapper Color: Sunshine Yellow

Separated into 12 squares, as opposed to the normal 16, the Ritter Sport Funky White Lemon bar is essentially a white chocolate bar with zesty lemon cream filling. This flavor arrived in 2024 as part of Ritter’s Tasty Vibes collection.

We were struck by the funky bar’s sweet, tangy flavor once we got past the surprise of its relatively large squares. Since we like white chocolate and citrusy desserts, we like this summery flavor.

Name in Germany: Kaffee Knusper
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 50%
Wrapper Color: Pinkish Brown

Ritter’s Crispy Coffee bar debuted in 2022 as a winter flavor. We had a good feeling about it as soon as we took this bar out of its wrapper. Not only did the two-tone bar look super cool, but it also emitted a slight but pleasant coffee aroma.

This bar has three components: a coffee chocolate base made with ground coffee, a dark chocolate top layer and crispy cornflakes. It’s a solid flavor on its own and even better when paired with a latte or cappuccino.

Name in Germany: Amicelli
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: White

We weren’t familiar with Amicelli until we spotted the flavor in Berlin. Not missing a beat, we snagged a bar based on the package’s picture. We’re now fans of this square bar that combines milk chocolate with hazelnut cream and crunchy wafer cookies.

As we’ve since learned, Ritter purchased Amicelli from Mars in 2021 and continues to sell its rolled, cream-filled wafers. Inspired by those wafers and first sold in 2025, Ritter’s Amicelli chocolate bar is a popular treat all year round but especially during the holiday season.

24. Caramelized Almonds

Name in Germany: Gebrannte Mandel
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Green

A Winter Creation flavor that debuted in 2011, the Caramelized Almonds bar is a riff on a popular holiday treat sold at German Christmas markets. While the market version (Gebrannte Mandeln) involves candied almonds served warm in paper cones, the Ritter version combines sugar-glazed almonds with a milk chocolate base.

This bar, which is crunchy and fun to eat, strikes us as a chocolate-almond-brittle mashup. We like its flavor, but we’d like it more if the bar had a little salt to counterbalance its sugary sweetness.

25. Strawberry Yogurt

Name in Germany: Erdbeer Joghurt
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Pink

Ritter added a colorful fruit element to its OG Yogurt flavor when the company introduced the Strawberry Yogurt bar in 2007. Both yogurt bars have milk chocolate shells and tangy fillings; however, the strawberry version adds real strawberry pieces to the mix.

Since we often eat Greek yogurt for breakfast, liking this flavor isn’t a stretch for us. It’s not our favorite bar, but we appreciate the interplay between the sweet milk chocolate shell and tangy strawberry yogurt center.

26. Good Vibes Crispy Choco

Name in Germany: Creamy Milk
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Baby Blue

Creamy Milk is the third flavor that launched with Ritter’s 2024 Tasty Vibes collection. This bar features a milk chocolate exterior and is filled with sweet milk cream.

The Ritter Sport Chill Out Creamy Milk bar has one note, and that note is sweet. It’s a great choice if you’re a fan of Kinder Surprise Eggs. However, if you’re a Ritter Sport fan, this flavor will likely be too sugary for you, as it is for us.

Name in Germany: Trauben Nuss
Cocoa Solids Percentage: 30%
Wrapper Color: Carmine Red

One of the oldest Ritter Sport flavors dating back to 1935, the Raisins Hazelnut bar is an alcohol-free counterpart to the Rum Raisins Hazelnuts bar. And as its name suggests, this milk chocolate bar is filled with raisins and hazelnuts.

We ranked this flavor last because it’s a lesser version of its sibling. Hello, rum-soaked raisins! However, if you love Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut bars, then this may be your favorite Ritter Sport flavor.

• Price: A standard 100-gram bar typically costs under €2.50 in Germany. Expect to pay more at airports and specialty shops.
• Where to Buy Ritter Sport Bars in Germany: Every German supermarket chain stocks the core Ritter flavors. You can find a full range of the flavors at the Ritter stores in Berlin and Waldenbuch.
• Bunte SchokoWelt Berlin: Ritter Sport’s flagship store is located near Gendarmenmarkt in Mitte. It has a shop, a café and a counter where you can customize your own Meine Kreation bar.
• Waldenbuch: Ritter Sport’s hometown near Stuttgart has a factory shop and the Museum Ritter. It’s a worthwhile day trip if you’re in Stuttgart and want to customize a Ritter Sport bar.
• Outside Germany: While Ritter Sport was once a niche product, it’s now sold at grocery stores around the world. It’s also on the shelves in American Target and Walmart stores. Prices vary by country. Expect to spend $4 to $6 per bar in the US.
• Country Names: Ritter Sport bars have different names in different countries. Check out the wrapper’s color and picture if a bar’s name is unfamiliar to you.

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