Chocolate Provides Health Benefits

Studies have now proven the current chocolate is good for you. It is rich in antioxidants and has a multitude of health benefits, including hurting blood sugar and cholesterol. Cocoa comes from the Theobromo cacao plant. Half of the cocoa bean is made of fat in the condition of cocoa butter. Cocoa powder is the edible non-fat part of the cacao bean. Most of the fats in chocolate are saturated, but it also contains heaps of the "good" fats: oleic and linoleic acids.
Cocoa has one of the highest concentration antioxidants of any foods, in the form of the flavonoids: catechin and epicatechin. ORAC scores are used to wonder the level of antioxidant housing in foods. This oxygen radical absorbance capacity test rates cocoa higher than most foods, including green tea or red wine.