Chocolate Tips

Balance of Calories:

One bar of Dark Chocolate has approx 400 calories. If you eat half a bar of chocolate a day, you should balance those 200 calories by eating less of something else. You can cut out other sweets or snacks and replace them with chocolate to keep your total calories the same.

Taste the Chocolate:

Chocolate is a complex food with over 300 compunds and chemicals in each bite you take. If you really want to enjoy and appreciate chocolate, take time to taste it. Professional Chocolate tasters have developed a system for tasting chocolate which include assessing the appearance, feel, smell and taste of each piece.

Go For Dark Chocolate:

Dark Chocolate has far more antioxidants than white and milk chocolate. Milk and White chocolates cannot make any health claims. Dark Chocolates has 65% or higher cocoa content.

Skip the Nougat:

You should look for pure Dark Chocolate / Dark Chocolate with Nuts, Orange Peel or other flavor. Avoid dark chocolate with Caramel, Nougat and other filling. These filling are just adding sugar and fat thereby erasing the benefit of eating Dark Chocolate.

Avoid Milk with Chocolate:

It may taste good but some research have claimed that washing your chocolate down with a glass of milk can prevent the antioxidants from being absorbed or used by your body.

Dark Chocolate Healthy for your Heart !!!

Chocolate is made from plants. It contains many of the health benefits of dark vegetables. These benefits are from Flavonoids which acts as Antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from aging. Dark Chocolate contains nearly 8 times antioxidants found in strawberries. Flavonoids also help to relax Blood Pressure through the production of Nitric Acid and also balance certain hormones in the body. A small bar of Dark Chocolate can help keep your Heart and cardiovascular system running well. Two heart benefits of the Dark Chocolate are:

• Lower Blood Pressure: Studies have shown, consuming a small bar of dark chocolate everyday can reduce blood pressure in individuals with High Blood Pressure.
• Lower Cholesterol: Dark Chocolate has also been shown to reduce LDL Cholesterol (the Bad Cholesterol) by upto 10%.

Chocolates Increases Efficiency of Blood Vessels



Catechins are believed to protect against heart disease and cancer and so eating products that contain them could have health benefits. Dark Chocolate have 53.5mg catechins per 100g, Milk Chocolate have 15.9mg per 100g.

(Holland's National Institute of Public Health & Environment)





Eating Dark Chocolate helps Blood Vessels function more effectively, researchers have claimed. Arteries that are able to dilate more have increased blood flow and this is especially important for the heart.

(Journal of the American College of Nutrition)