We've been hearing for years that chocolate is actually good for our health, yet this kind of statement is very misleading. There is a specific type of chocolate that is beneficial. And for those of us with a super-sweet tooth, it's not the especially appealing kind.
Dark Chocolate. That's right. And it has to be at least 70% cacao to be any good to you inside and especially out.
We really don't have to get into it's origins. It's pretty commonly known that chocolate comes from the cacao beans in the tropical regions of the world, like Africa, Madagascar, and South America. Just like coffee, it's much more familiar to us consumers once it's been roasted and processed much further from its natural state. But we need to understand that the less processed our chocolate, the more beneficial it is.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Chocolate: The Misunderstood Superfood
How Eating MORE Chocolate Is Something You Should Be Doing
If you were to ask past girlfriends if given the chance would they have traded me in for some chocolate? Well I don't want to know the answer to that question...
Chocolate, and peoples love of chocolate, go back thousands and thousands of years. The Aztecs some 4-5000 years ago were grinding up cocoa beans and combining them with other ingredients to make drinks and porridges. Even the name of 'cocoa' comes from the ancient Nahuatl language meaning "bitter water"
Clearly the use of chocolate has evolved into the modern era but a standard drink of hot chocolate shares similar traits with those early beverages.
And just like Miley Cyrus there are good and bad versions of the same thing..
GOOD AND BAD TYPES OF CHOCOLATE
There is chocolate we want to avoid and then there is the chocolate that not only still can be considered an indulgence but also contains numerous health benefits.
