Ah chocolate, that delicious creamy treat that is everyone’s vice. We just can’t get enough of the stuff, even though we know the amount we consume is ultimately bad for us, we just can’t resist it, so there tends to be a guilt edged pleasure about eating it. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a healthy chocolate?
Well guess what? There is one. Although we know that chocolate has benefits such as Antioxidants and vitamins, there is stuff in there that isn’t so good for us.
The thing is we mess about with our chocolate something rotten. We get the basic product then add loads of other stuff to it, such as extra butter, sugar, milk solids etc which enhance the flavor but make it very fattening. Dark chocolate, however, doesn’t have any of these added, but there is one more thing to think about.
This is a very strange fact; our body doesn’t see chocolate as a food. It’s just a carrier to bring all the sugars etc into our body which we them hang on to, dispelling the good stuff like the minerals without getting any benefit from them.
The trick is to eat chocolate with other foods as well, nuts and fruits are perfect. Eating them together ensures that your body treats the chocolate as food and you get all the goodness from it.
But if you take in other stuff such as fruit or nuts at the same time it will then treat the chocolate as food and you will then get the benefits.
For a chocolate fanatic, I once had the perfect job; as a chocolatier. Temptation was rife, but I stuck to dark chocolate and complemented it with vitamin C rich foods like nuts, dried fruits etc. When I had a routine blood test, it showed that the levels of vitamins and minerals were the best they had ever been, and even better, I put no weight on.
So you now know which chocolate to eat if you can’t do without it. Forget the fat laden milk chocolate bars and reach for a dark chocolate with fruit and nuts and enjoy your treat without the guilt.
One last thing, just because you know it’s healthier doesn’t mean you can pig out, be sensible!
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