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Chocolate Cacao – The Newest Health Research Super Food?

You asked for it! You got it…at least part of it. New research is being updated constantly on the benefits of the cacao bean. Raw Cacao, or Chocolate, dates back to the Olmec Indians in 1500 BC. The Mayans and Aztecs used it in a drink they called Xocolatl to build resistance and fight fatigue.

Lets take a look at some of the key components of the Cacao bean. We’ll see why researchers are calling cacao one of the world’s greatest super foods and how it can benefit us.

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Organic Cacao Beans – The Real Chocolate

Organic Cacao beans are an awesome way to make your food a sweeter tasting treat, but yet they are extremely healthy for you. Every kind of chocolate that is out there is made from cacao beans, or cocoa beans. With the organic cacao beans though, you don’t have the extra sugars added and no chemicals that will taint the healthy food that they are.

Cacao beans have some great mineral benefits and antioxidants, plus they have the rejuvenating properties for your neurotransmitters. With a cacao bean that is raw you will have one of the best super foods, and it’s all natural. When a cacao bean is cooked it loses a bunch of the minerals that are in the raw bean. So why take that out? Try these raw organic cacao beans.

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Why Hot Cocoa Is Healthier Than Hot Chocolate

There is an important difference between hot cocoa and hot chocolate. These terms are often used interchangeably, but the distinction is in the nutritional properties. Hot cocoa is made from raw cocoa powder, which is pressed chocolate which removes the fat of the cocoa butter. Hot chocolate is made from chocolate bars melted into a cream or ground into a powder. Often hot chocolate has a very high sugar and fat content and low cocoa content. Cocoa can be very good for you, especially if you minimize the sugar and fat.

Hot cocoa has been around a long time and for good reason. It is one of the most potent antioxidant beverages you can drink, plus it is naturally delicious! Archeologists have found that the oldest civilization of the Americas, the Olmecs, (1500-400 BC), were probably the first users of cacao. The Mayans continued consuming-based drinks made with beans. Chocolatl was the name of a drink made from roasted cocoa beans, water and spices and was consumed voraciously by the aristocracy. They primarily drank cocoa but the beans were also valued as a currency.

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