Healthy Chocolate Guide

Unsweetened Chocolate: It is also called baking, plain or bitter chocolate. Since no sugar has been added to the chocolate it has a strong, bitter taste that is used in cooking and baking but is never eaten out of hand. Bittersweet Chocolate: Still dark, but a little sweeter than unsweetened. It is unsweetened chocolate to [...]

Dark Chocolate – not white chocolate or milk chocolate – is good for you. As there is no question that chocolate procures pleasure for those who eat it, you never need to feel guilty again! If you enjoy chocolate, eat a little daily – but make it the dark kind. Eating 2 ounces (50 grams) [...]

Dark chocolate gives more of a feeling of satiety than milk choco bars, say researchers, who suggest that the “plain chocolate” may be an efficient way to keep weight down. Although the health benefits of eating dark chocolate are well known, the scientists at the Department of Human Nutrition at LIFE, University of Copenhagen, have [...]

More International Studies, U of U Research Now, let’s take a look at the newest international studies on cocoa while comparing and contrasting these interesting findings with the results obtained from a cardiovascular study performed at the University of Utah. Professor David Kennedy is the director of Brain, Performance and Nutrition Research Center at Northumbria University [...]

Eating 30 Calories Per Day of Dark Chocolate May Lower High Blood Pressure By Miranda Hitti WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD July 3, 2007 — The health benefits of dark chocolate may include lowering high blood pressure, German researchers report. But overindulging in dark chocolate might blow your calorie budget, and packing [...]