Chocolate News
The Healthiest and Easiest Ways to Get Your Chocolate Fix
SNACKLAZY.COM If you don’t satisfy the craving with healthy chocolate snacks, you may end up binging on chocolaty sweets that will ruin your mood and add to your waistline. While there are many health benefits attributed by the cacao bean, the added ingredients to make chocolate (processed sugar and often dairy) are unhealthy. Check out these 10 healthy snacks, here.Chicago candy icon Fannie May celebrating 100th anniversary with new flavors, redesigned stores
A beloved Chicago chocolate and candy icon celebrates a hundred years in business this year. Fannie May has more than 50 stores in the Midwest – most of them in Illinois. As part of their anniversary, they’re re-designing stores and adding a few new flavors.
Happy National Chocolate Day! October 28, 2020
The Toxic Ingredient in Chocolate You Need to Know About
Cacao + sugar + a few other things = a food we all know and love: chocolate. It is commonly known that a diet high in chocolate candy can be bad for your health because of the high amount of sugar. But that isn’t the only thing making chocolate potentially harmful to your health. Although cacao is a natural ingredient derived from seeds, it can also carry some toxic properties. This is because of the soil the potentially toxic ingredient in chocolate is grown in. Much of the world’s cacao trees are located in Latin America. Here there are more traces of cadmium, a metal that can cause diarrhea, vomiting, and even kidney disease, according to the CDC. A team of researchers from Ecuador and Belgium are now looking to develop ways to reduce the amount of cadmium that ultimately ends up in cacao beans, according to a new report in the Journal of Environmental Quality.
Foodies are losing their minds over ‘hot chocolate bombs’ that explode when warm milk is poured over them – oozing cocoa and tiny marshmallows
Millions of foodies are obsessed with a DIY ‘hot chocolate bomb’ which cracks open when it comes into contact with warm milk, revealing a sweet surprise. Self-taught baker Jen from Sweets by Jen shared a video showcasing what the decadent dessert can do, with a number of Australians commenting on how ‘amazing’ it is. The footage from Jen’s kitchen in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has gone viral on social media with more than 15million views to date. Click, here, to view video.