Black Chocolate Blog

Chocolate has a pretty bad reputation, but it is mainly because we mainly eat light, sweet chocolate. Most people know that dark chocolate is better. The advantage of dark chocolate is that you do not eat as much. Like nitrate-rich vegetables, dark chocolate is bitter and bitter taste is nature's signal that it is toxic. Women and Chocolate It is said that women feel more craving for chocolate than men (ie compared to men, not that women prefer chocolate to men ??). A study shows that 40 percent of women feel cravings for chocolate, while only 15 percent of men feel the same craving. According to one theory, this is because chocolate contains substances that keep women's hormonal systems and brain in balance. It is known, for example, that the levels of the brain feel good hormone Serotonin is low during PMS and that chocolate can increase the production of serotonin and of endorphins, which increases the feeling of well-being. It also does exercise, but eating chocolat...

Should you really take that little chocolate praline for coffee after lunch? Or that box of chocolate for the TV series that you devotedly see night after night? Of course! Here are 8 scientific reasons why you should eat more chocolate - with good conscience. Boosts brain functions According to researchers from the University of South Australia, people who ate chocolate at least once a week could improve their memory, concentration and ability to solve problems compared to people who did not eat chocolate as regularly. The study included 1000 people who were followed for 30 years. A mood enhancer Perhaps most important of all? According to the American study "Chocolate Happiness Undergoing More Pleasantness" we are happy with chocolate. The study showed that people who ate chocolate were more likely to be happy than people who did not eat chocolate. Is good for the heart According to several studies, dark chocolate can protect against cardiovascular disease....

Is dark chocolate useful or is it just something the cocoa producers say to eat more without a bad conscience? When talking about health related to diet, there are several aspects that come into play. How much vitamins / minerals there is in what you eat, how energy rich it is and whether it reduces / increases the risk of various diseases. When it comes to what dark chocolate has for health benefits, you focus on the flavanols found in the cocoa bean. It is a type of antioxidant that, according to several studies (made on both humans and animals), has benign effects on blood vessels, blood supply, inflammation and blood pressure. However, the amount of flavanols in dark chocolate depends a lot on how much cocoa in the chocolate has been processed and the levels can therefore vary between 100-2000 mg / 100 g chocolate. In addition to the above effects, an English research team has found that theobromine, which is abundantly present in cocoa, is three times as effective agai...

Time and again, research has linked health benefits to cocoa. In one study, the group of men who ate the most cocoa - just over 4 grams a day - had halved the risk of death . But chocolate is useless, and you should not eat it. How can it be related? The answer is that it does not, because chocolate and cocoa are different things. There is good chocolate and there is bad chocolate, and as we shall see, you get to a large extent what you pay for. Chocolate is made as you know from cocoa. You ferment, roast, peel and grind cocoa beans, and then obtain cocoa mass. Cocoa pulp consists partly of fat. In the process, this is excreted, the so-called cocoa butter, and the remainder is called cocoa powder or fat-reduced cocoa. If you read the table of contents on an arbitrary chocolate cake you will see that it consists of a selection of the ingredients cocoa butter, cocoa mass, fat-reduced cocoa, milk, sugar, hardened fat, other fats, and probably aromas and emulsifiers. Of these,...