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How to Work Dark Chocolate Into Your Diet
CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG If you’re going to eat chocolate, a bar with a higher cacao percentage is a better treat than a milk- or white-chocolate one. Milk chocolate not only has less cacao and fewer flavanols but also contains about twice as much sugar as dark chocolate. White chocolate has cocoa butter but no cacao solids, and as a result, it has no flavonols. Its sugar content is comparable to that of milk chocolate. Click HERE to learn more.Happy National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day! January 3, 2022
The sweet truth
Comfort food has been integral to consumers since the Covid-19 outbreak. Chocolate, an innovative and fast-evolving segment that fits right into the comfort food bracket, is also growing at a healthy clip. On that sweet note, here are some trends and future predictions that will dominate the chocolate industry in 2022 (click, HERE).
How to live longer: The life-prolonging snack that lowers blood pressure and slows ageing
Some research states that a sweet treat could add up to two years to one’s life when consumed regularly. Dark chocolate contains levels of antioxidants high enough to significantly improve blood pressure and ward off disease. Findings revealed that those who ate three bars of chocolate per month had a 36 percent lower risk of premature death. The health benefits of dark chocolate have been attributed to its inimitable flavonoid content, which confers significant antioxidant benefits.
He went to 7-Eleven for chocolate milk and left with a million bucks
A Virginia dad’s chocolate milk run turned into a $1 million windfall. Dennis Willoughby of North Chesterfield went to a local 7-Eleven to buy chocolate milk for his kids when he decided to pick up a scratch-off lottery ticket, Virginia Lottery officials said Wednesday. The ticket, a $1,000,000 Platinum Jackpot, turned out to be a top prize winner. The lucky father was given the choice of taking the full $1 million prize in annual payments over 30 years or a one-time cash payment of $640,205 before taxes. He chose the latter. Although it’s not $1 million, it can still buy a lot of chocolate milk.