PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low calorie chocolate composition that has, despite being chocolate in which the content of sugar is reduced, a feel of sweetness which is not incongruous as chocolate and "chocolate feeling of melted-in-the mouth" or "cacao-derived unique flavor".SOLUTION: Provided is a low calorie chocolate composition satisfying all the following conditions (a) to (c) in a chocolate composition containing maltitol. (a) it contains maltitol by 25 to 55 mass% per total amount of the composition, (b) the mass ratio (X):(Y) between the abundances of sugar (X) and maltitol (Y) is 1:3 to 0:1, and (c) it contains oreuropein by 0.01 to 0.5 mass%, preferably by 0.05 to 0.3 mass%, per total amount of the composition. Also provided is said low calorie chocolate composition further containing 1 kind or 2 or more kinds of ingredient that makes the elevation of blood glucose level moderate, selected from hardly digestible dextrin, water soluble wheat protein, salacinol and aminolevulinic acid as well as salts thereof.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】砂糖の含有量を削減したチョコレートのもかかわらず、チョコレートとして違和感のない甘さの感じ方と「チョコレートの口溶け感」や「カカオ由来の独特の風味」を有する低カロリーチョコレート組成物の提供。【解決手段】マルチトールを含有するチョコレート組成物において、下記の（ａ）～（ｃ）の条件を全て満たす低カロリーチョコレート組成物。（ａ）組成物全量に対して２５～５５質量％のマルチトールを含有、（ｂ）砂糖（Ｘ）とマルチトール（Ｙ）の存在量の質量比（Ｘ）：（Ｙ）が１：３～０：１。（ｃ）オレウロペインを組成物全量に対して０．０１～０．５質量％、好ましくは０．０５～０．３質量％含有。更に、難消化性デキストリン、水溶性小麦タンパク、サラシノール及びアミノレブリン酸並びにその塩から選ばれる1種２種以上の血糖値の上昇を穏やかにする成分を含有する低カロリーチョコレート組成物【選択図】なし
