Chocolate

Natural cocoa powder has high antioxidant content

harminka — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:11:07 -0500

Over the past ten years, dark chocolate and cocoa have become recognized through numerous studies for flavanol antioxidant benefits. In a study published this month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists from The Hershey Company and Brunswick Laboratories of Norton, MA report on the levels of antioxidants in selected cocoa powders and the effect of processing on the antioxidant levels.

Chocolate bar shown to lower cholesterol

harminka — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:31:27 -0500

The results of a University of Illinois study have demonstrated an effective way to lower cholesterol levels – by eating chocolate bars.

CocoaVia dark chocolate lowers blood pressure and cholesterol level

seher — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:58:15 -0500

At first sight chocolate has nothing to do with healthy heart, low blood pressure and low levels of cholesterol, but a dream comes true.

The earliest chocolate drink of New World

harminka — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:26:06 -0600

The earliest known use of cacao––the source of our modern day chocolate––has been pushed back more than 500 years, to somewhere between 1400 and 1100 B.C.E., thanks to new chemical analyses of residues extracted from pottery excavated at an archaeological site at Puerto Escondido in Honduras

Study finds that people are programmed to love chocolate

harminka — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:39:41 -0500

For the first time, scientists have linked the all-too-human preference for a food — chocolate — to a specific, chemical signature that may be programmed into the metabolic system and is detectable by laboratory tests. The signature reads ‘chocolate lover’ in some people and indifference to the popular sweet in others, the researchers say.

Digestive system bacteria makes humans eat chocolate

Dinka — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:40:11 -0500

A small study links the type of bacteria living in people's digestive system to a desire for chocolate. Everyone has a vast community of microbes in their guts. But people who crave daily chocolate show signs of having different colonies of bacteria than people who are immune to chocolate's allure.

New test could help consumers avoid surprise headaches from chocolate, wine

harminka — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:46:09 -0500

Researchers in California are reporting development of a fast, inexpensive test suitable for home use that could help millions of people avoid those ‘out of the blue’ headaches that may follow consumption of certain red wines, cheese, chocolate, and other aged or fermented foods.

Chocoholics not addicts, researcher says

Dinka — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:22:56 -0500

Resistance is futile. The more we try to fight off a craving for chocolate, the more our desire for it grows, a British researcher has said. But chocoholics can take heart that such sweets are not addictive despite the fact many people consider themselves as having no control over their urges to eat them, said Peter Rogers, a psychologist at the University of Bristol.

Nice but naughty, our addiction to chocolate

harminka — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:31:48 -0500

Chocolate is the most widely and frequently craved food, but is it really addictive?

Dark chocolate Consumption associated with reduction in blood pressure

harminka — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:55:16 -0500

Eating about 30 calories a day of dark chocolate was associated with a lowering of blood pressure, without weight gain or other adverse effects, according to a study in the July 4 issue of JAMA.

Update on Allergy Alert on Dark Belgian Chocolate Bar

Anastvatz — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:18:02 -0500

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued the following update on the allergy alert issued earlier concerning undeclared milk protein in evasion no sugar added dark belgian chocolate bar

Anastvatz — Thu, 17 May 2007 06:38:57 -0500

Summer Chocolate Creations from La Maison du Chocolat