PURPOSE: A chocolate with lowered cariosity without damaging sweetness and taste, by blending chocolate with a specific sweet composition instead of sugar conventionally used.

CONSTITUTION: (A) Capsulated aspartame obtained by dissolving aspartame and a decomposition product of reducing starch (and/or powder of thick malt syrup of reducing maltose) in warm water, subjecting it to spray drying, pulvering it and (B) palatinose are used as a sweetener. Namely, pulverized palatinose is blended with bitter chocolate, the prepared mixture is mixed with the capsulated aspartame and other ingredients, kneaded, molded to give a chocolate product. Preferably the capsulated aspartame is added just before completion of conche process.