- Jun. 15, 2009
- Chocolate = Health Food
It is no myth, just our good fortune, that some chocolate can be good for you!
Dark chocolate is rich in fiber, magnesium and antioxidants. Chocolate is one of the richest food sources of naturally occurring antioxidants known as flavonoids. Dark chocolate can provide you with a mood boost and a dose of prevention when it comes to long-term health benefits such maintaining a normal blood pressure and reducing inflammation for a healthier heart well into adulthood.
As in all things, practice moderation with your chocolate consumption. Enjoy it, delight in every flavorful morsel, just don’t over do it as you may blow the benefit it just gave you. I know I tend to over-use this word moderation but it is only because I care.
Not ever to be forgotten, fruit, tea, and vegetables also contain wondrous amounts of flavonoids and other important nutrients. Adding a small amount of chocolate can collectively boost overall nutrition, but a bite is all it takes. Chocolate does contain a lot of calories half of which come from fat, but let its pure pleasure blur that image from your brain right now. Poof!
Dark chocolate is rich in fiber, magnesium and antioxidants. Chocolate is one of the richest food sources of naturally occurring antioxidants known as flavonoids. Dark chocolate can provide you with a mood boost and a dose of prevention when it comes to long-term health benefits such maintaining a normal blood pressure and reducing inflammation for a healthier heart well into adulthood.
As in all things, practice moderation with your chocolate consumption. Enjoy it, delight in every flavorful morsel, just don’t over do it as you may blow the benefit it just gave you. I know I tend to over-use this word moderation but it is only because I care.
Not ever to be forgotten, fruit, tea, and vegetables also contain wondrous amounts of flavonoids and other important nutrients. Adding a small amount of chocolate can collectively boost overall nutrition, but a bite is all it takes. Chocolate does contain a lot of calories half of which come from fat, but let its pure pleasure blur that image from your brain right now. Poof!
- Posted by:
- Tara, the RD
- Category:
- Food Matters
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Chocolate is great if it is fair trade. If not it is likely produced by child-slave lobor!
Hi There.
Amy, here.
Thanks for your comment on chocolate and child slave labor. Just thought you would all be interested in the efforts we make to avoid this kind of social injustice.
Clif Bar & Company will not knowingly buy products from those who do not have fair and ethical practices in the workplace.
We have a supplier code of conduct that we share with all our ingredient suppliers. This Bar Code speaks to our expectations on legal, social, and environmental responsibility. Our Bar code is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions, and covers a full range of ethical trading issues focused on basic labor rights; including a safe working environment, the right to organize, and non-discrimination in the workplace, among many others.
Thanks for reading the blog and sharing your concern.
-Amy, Miss Web Gal.
I never thought dark Chocolate is better than other variety, I thought they are just the same.. and @David.. It’s really true a lot of cocoa workers are children. I just forgot the place but I think it’s somewhere in africa.