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KitKat and Nescafé team to create a new kind of coffee break

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Two of Nestlé’s top brands, KitKat and Nescafé, have teamed up to create a new mocha flavour KitKat. The new two-finger bar contains a crispy wafer biscuit covered in coffee flavour chocolate. With 104 Calories per biscuit, the bar is free from artificial colours, flavours…

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