healthy chocolate? - Healthy Lifestyle Message Board

tropicalfreeze2 · 08-08-2005, 11:35 PM

so i pretty much eat for health and have a question about these studies that chocolate is good for the heart, in moderation of course. so i hear different views about it all the time. things like it should be organic, it should be dark chocolate, and should have 70%> cocoa in it. i have also heard that it has be processed in a certain way to save it nutrients, such as antioxidants. does anyone know what kind of chocolate i should be eating...i never know what brand to buy or where to it from? i have heard that hershey's special dark chocolate doesn't have a high enough % of cocoa in it, but it doens't even have a % on the label? i really believe that cocoa beans have great benefits, i am just not sure what to buy? any ideas? any info will help Thanks!!! Eat well!

Bell Jar · 08-12-2005, 03:22 PM

Hmm, do you really need to have chocolate if you're just eating it for health? I'm sure there are positive health benefits with chocolate, but I imagine they would be minimal and you could probably find those antioxadants in other foods as well.

Although if you want to have chocolate, eat it for pleasure and stick with dark chocolate as it tends to be more satisfying. Or say "they" say.

cookiepls · 08-12-2005, 06:13 PM

The only thing I've heard was on the news several times. That is that dark chocolate like ' Hershey's special dark' is the best one. Has fewer calories than the milk chocolate and more of the good antioxidents. There will naturally be a higher percentage of cocoa in dark chocolate since it has less sugar and milk.

I think, if you gotta cure that sweet tooth with chocolate, the dark is the best way to go.

tropicalfreeze2 · 08-12-2005, 08:59 PM

Thanks, just trying eating a variety of food in life!

cryingdestiny · 12-10-2005, 09:13 PM

I think thats a good question because you obviously care bout what you eat and you eat to stay healthy but you want to treat yourself too, Hey dont we all! So you were just seeing if there is a healthier method to eating chocolate by looking into it and seeing if there's healthy chocolate. I dont know much about it but I did hear that dark chocolate is better than milk chocolate.