Is Chocolate Healthy?

Is chocolate healthy? It depends on how the chocolate is processed. Roasting and fermenting tend to decrease the amount of healthy antioxidants in the cocoa bean. Also, ingredients added to chocolate, such as sugar and milk, are not healthy.

Most sources recommend a minimum of 70% dark chocolate to get the benefits of chocolate without an abundance of the non-healthy ingredients. In moderation, of course.

Good reading about chocolate research and how chocolate is made: Chocolate: The New Health Food or Is It? (downloadable PDF)

Another person’s thoughts on chocolate: Chocolate: A Health Food? by Jay S. Cohen, M.D.

Fun Chocolate Facts

Chocolate is made from the beans of the cacao tree. Chocolate-making companies purchase these beans and then crush, mix, roll, and mold them in machines to make the chocolate you eat.

Cocoa nibs are simply roasted cocoa beans separated from their husks and broken in to small bits.

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