If you’ve got a fancy date-sweetened chocolate bar sitting in your pantry right now, you need to check the label before you take another bite. Spring & Mulberry, the Raleigh, North Carolina company known for making chocolate bars sweetened with dates instead of refined sugar, just expanded its voluntary recall to include every single product it sells. All 12 flavors. Nationwide. The FDA announcement went out on May 8, 2026, and if you’ve purchased any Spring & Mulberry chocolate since August 2025, your bar could be affected.
Here’s everything you need to know about this recall, including which flavors are involved, how to check your packaging, and how to get your money back.
What Happened and Why the Recall Keeps Growing
This whole thing started back in January 2026 when Spring & Mulberry pulled one lot of one flavor, the Mint Leaf Date-Sweetened Chocolate bar, off shelves over concerns about possible salmonella contamination. A couple days later, on January 14, the company expanded the recall to include additional flavors that were made during the same time period on the same equipment.
But the May 8 expansion is a much bigger deal. After what the company describes as a “comprehensive root cause investigation” done with its manufacturing partners, food safety experts, and the FDA, they pinpointed the problem: a single lot of the date ingredient used across their entire chocolate line was likely contaminated with salmonella. Since that one batch of dates touched everything, the recall now covers all 12 flavors Spring & Mulberry makes. That’s the company’s entire product lineup, pulled in one move.
All 12 Recalled Flavors
According to federal regulators, the recall now includes every flavor Spring & Mulberry sells. Here’s the full list:
1. Blood Orange
2. Coffee
3. Earl Grey
4. Lavender Rose
5. Mango Chili
6. Mint Leaf
7. Mixed Berry
8. Mulberry Fennel
9. Pecan Date
10. Pure Dark
11. Pure Dark Mini
12. Sea Salt
The four newest additions in this latest expansion are Blood Orange, Coffee, Pure Dark, and Sea Salt. Everything else was already part of the January recall. But now, regardless of flavor, if you have a Spring & Mulberry bar at home, it could be affected.
How to Check If Your Bar Is Part of the Recall
You’ll need to look at the lot code on your packaging. It’s printed on the back of the box and also on the inner flow wrap (the wrapper directly around the bar). Each recalled product can be identified by a combination of the flavor name, the lot or batch code, and the box color.
For specific lot codes, detailed batch numbers have been published. Some examples include Mixed Berry batches 025220, 025223, 025247, 025248, 025251, 025253, 025288, 025296, 025335, and 026008. Pecan Date batches include 025233, 025237, 025238, 025239, 025240, 025241, 025290, 025294, 025329, and 025330. Pure Dark batches include 025217, 025218, 025219, 025254, 025266, 025269, 025324, 025338, and 025350. More lot codes for other flavors are available on the company’s recall page.
The affected products have been available for purchase since August 2025. That’s almost a nine-month window of sales. So even if you bought your bar months ago, it could still be part of this recall.
Where These Bars Were Sold
Spring & Mulberry products were sold online through the company’s website and through select retail partners across the country. This is not a regional thing. The recall covers products distributed nationwide, not limited to any specific state or region.
Before the recall, the brand had been growing fast. Its retail footprint included Whole Foods Market, Erewhon, Anthropologie, Bloomingdale’s, Lunds & Byerly’s, Misfits Market, and other retailers. So if you shop at any of those places and you remember picking up a chocolate bar with a minimalist, premium-looking package, flip it over and check the brand name and lot code.
No Confirmed Illnesses So Far
One important detail: as of the May 8 announcement, there have been zero confirmed reports of anyone getting sick from these chocolate bars. On top of that, all of the finished products included in the expanded recall have tested negative for salmonella.
So why recall them? Because the investigation traced the contamination to a specific lot of dates used as an ingredient in the chocolate. Even though the finished bars tested clean, the precautionary move is to pull everything that was made with that ingredient batch. The company and the FDA are treating this as a “better safe than sorry” situation, which honestly is the right call. You don’t want to wait until people start getting sick to act.
It’s also worth pointing out that contaminated chocolate can look, smell, and taste completely normal. There’s no way to tell just by looking at it whether something is off.
What You Should Do Right Now
If you have any Spring & Mulberry chocolate bars at home, here’s the step-by-step process straight from the company’s recall instructions:
First, do not eat the chocolate. Set it aside.
Second, take a clear photo of the product packaging that shows the batch code. You’ll need this for your refund.
Third, email that photo to recalls@springandmulberry.com. That’s the dedicated email address for this recall.
Fourth, after you’ve documented the batch code, throw the chocolate bar away. Don’t hold onto it, don’t give it away, don’t eat it. Toss it.
The company says they’ll issue a refund once they receive your photo with the batch code. If you have questions, you can reach them at that same email address.
A Little Background on Spring & Mulberry
If you haven’t heard of this brand, that’s understandable. Spring & Mulberry is a smaller, premium chocolate company, not a Mars or Hershey’s. It was founded in 2021 by Kathryn Shah and Sarah Bell. The entire brand is built around one idea: chocolate sweetened only with dates, no refined sugar at all. The base of every bar is just two ingredients, cacao and dates, and then they add toppings and flavors like fruits, spices, and florals.
The company had been on a serious growth trajectory before this recall situation began. They’d tripled revenue year over year since launch. Landing a spot on Whole Foods shelves in September 2024 was a major milestone. Their bars were also carried by Erewhon (the famously expensive LA grocery store), Anthropologie, Bloomingdale’s, and other premium retailers. These are not cheap gas station chocolate bars. They’re the kind of thing you buy for $6 to $8 a pop because the packaging looks beautiful and the ingredients list is short.
That growth story makes this recall all the more painful for the brand. Going from tripling revenue to recalling your entire product line in the span of a few months is a brutal turn.
The Root Cause: One Bad Batch of Dates
The investigation traced everything back to a single contaminated lot of dates from Spring & Mulberry’s ingredient supplier. That’s the core of it. One batch of dates, used across the company’s production line, created a contamination risk that spread to every flavor they make.
According to food safety reporting, the company’s ingredient supplier also issued its own recall, which further supports the idea that the dates were the problem, not anything Spring & Mulberry did in their own production facility. But when your entire product line is built around one key ingredient (dates), and that ingredient comes in contaminated, it takes down everything.
It’s a reminder that even small, premium brands with short ingredient lists and clean reputations can get hit by supply chain issues they didn’t cause and couldn’t easily predict.
Don’t Ignore This One
Look, I get it. Recall notices come out all the time and most of us scroll right past them. But this one covers products that have been on shelves and in online orders for nearly nine months. That’s a long window. If you bought a Spring & Mulberry bar as a gift, grabbed one at Whole Foods on a whim last fall, or ordered a few from their website over the holidays, there’s a real chance you still have one sitting around.
Go check your pantry. Check your desk drawer at work. Check that random gift bag you haven’t unpacked yet. If you find a Spring & Mulberry bar, snap a photo of the batch code, email it to recalls@springandmulberry.com, and throw it out. The refund process seems straightforward, and it takes about two minutes of your time.
The full list of recalled products, including specific lot codes and product photos, is available on the Spring & Mulberry website at springandmulberry.com/pages/recall. If you want to cross-reference with the official FDA notice, that’s public too. Don’t sit on this one.
