Chocolate is a perennial gift, almost as common as soap and fruitcake. The quality ranges from High Fructose Corn Syrup tubular brown goo in Brand’s candies and Tootsie Rolls all the way up to $2000 boxes of exclusive Beverly Hills handcrafted cocoa confections. Most of us prefer something in between. While my wife always goes for the Belgium variety, I like the bitter raw flavor of the cocoa. My favorite is an 85% dark.
Despite the myth that chocolate causes pimples (it’s the sugar, not the cocoa!), chocolate has a wide spectrum of health benefits. It can lower blood pressure, reduce the instance of blood clots, and even help prevent cancer. It’s rich in phenolic phytochemicals-or in layman’s terms, antioxidants. Cocoa has even more antioxidant flavonoids than green tea or red wine.
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