If you ask anyone what food they like to lavish themselves, they will say chocolate. You just know that people cannot have enough of chocolates, be it with milk, white, fruity; mention it. All that is required is for people to find out how to make chocolate good for the health, so that they can continue to eat it without any guilt.
You know what? There is already something like that. Well, the benefits of chocolate are many like antioxidants, vitamins and such like but the main thing is that chocolate has some stuff that is not very good for our health.
It looks like we really mess around with our chocolate by adding stuff to it that really damages our health. Take for example the way we take the basic product and add to it a lot of stuff like extra sugar, butter and milk solids. Granted all these contribute a great deal to adding the flavor, but they add the calories too. It is only the dark chocolate that does not have all these additional stuff and that is something in there to think about.
It would surprise you to know that our bodies do not recognize chocolate as food. That means when you eat a chocolate bar on its own, your body will just pick the sugar for storage but will not absorb any of the vitamins and minerals.
It is not very common knowledge, but dark chocolate contains very high iron content; so the best complement food for it is blueberries which are rich in vitamin C. It helps to balance the nutrition and enables your body to absorb the iron from the chocolate effectively, and tastes delicious too.
If you were to eat other stuff like fruit or nuts together, it will then treat the chocolate as food and you will then get all the benefits from it.
The days I worked in the chocolate industry, I regularly ate dark chocolate accompanied with all sorts of fruits; like berries and nuts. When I performed a blood test it revealed that my levels of vitamins and minerals were very okay and did not gain weight at all.
Now you are aware of which chocolate is good for you if you at all you cannot do without it. Forget the milk chocolate which is fat laden and go for the dark chocolate which you can eat with fruit and nuts. So continue enjoying your treat with no more guilt.
One very last thing, now that you know that it is even healthier; still it is no excuse to pig out, eat sensibly!
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