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A chocolate bar so healthy it could be taken as medicine
« on: October 04, 2015, 12:34:43 PM »
World's first 'medicinal' chocolate: Scientists have developed a bar so healthy it could be taken as medicine


The key ingredient in chocolate, cacao, contains antioxidants and minerals

Health benefits are negated by chocolate bars' high fat and sugar content

Company created prototype bar which has just 35 per cent sugar and fat

It 'unleashes the medical benefits of cacao,' said developers Kuka Xoco



By SIAN BOYLE FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 21:51 GMT, 2 October 2015 | UPDATED: 12:19 GMT, 3 October 2015
     

For those of us who love nibbling on chocolate but feel guilty afterwards, this could be the news we've been waiting for.

Scientists claim they have developed a type that is so healthy it could be taken as medicine.
The key ingredient in chocolate, cacao, contains antioxidants and minerals, and can even help lower blood pressure while increasing 'good' cholesterol.

But these health benefits are outweighed by the fact most chocolate bars are at least 70 per cent fat and sugar.

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Re: A chocolate bar so healthy it could be taken as medicine
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2015, 12:36:06 PM »

Health benefits: An American company has developed a prototype that is only 35 per cent sugar and fat, by sweetening the unpalatable pure cacao - the key ingredient in chocolate (file photo)[/i]


Speaking at the World Chocolate Forum in London this week, Mr Aharonian described sugar as 'the next nicotine' and argued that if the unhealthy ingredients were removed from chocolate, it could and should be eaten medicinally.

He said: 'In America, the $100billion-a-year chocolate industry could become a $200billion-a-year health food industry, if only much of the sugar and fat could be removed.
 
We look forward to working with the chocolate industry to make chocolate the most fun medicine.'

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Re: A chocolate bar so healthy it could be taken as medicine
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2015, 01:27:05 PM »

can we not just eat the cacao fruit and do away with the manufacturing expense of chocolate and its steep retail price?

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