To many people, chocolate is a sweet treat to be enjoyed occasionally. It is commonly viewed as an indulgence that is entirely bad for one’s health. What many people do not know about dark chocolate is that it has provides many health benefits. This is a game changer for the classic treat because it is quite rare to find health benefits within such a widely enjoyed candy. Dark chocolate is traditionally seen as an incredibly unhealthy food. However, the health benefits attached to this treat, such as lowering blood pressure, improving children’s behavior, and reducing the likelihood of suffering from a heart attack or stroke, can transform it into a favorable snack for many to enjoy. Consuming something that both tastes good and has plentiful …show more content…
The sugar and fat content found within most chocolatey treats can quickly cancel out the benefits that the cacao poses. Dark chocolate is processed in order to make it more palatable, but this process often causes the sweet to lose some of the chemicals that make cacao healthy. If one were to consume too much dark chocolate, they could experience high blood pressure among other health complications. Therefore, it is extremely important to practice moderation when consuming this treat in search of its health benefits. It is recommended that one eats no more than 150 calories or one ounce of dark chocolate so as to receive only the benefits associated with the candy (Drayer 13).By following this simple rule, many could be on the path to a healthier …show more content…
Complications concerning one's’ heart and blood pressure plague numerous people around the world. Prevention of such complications is critical when working toward an overall healthier world.
Without knowing the studies about dark chocolate, recommending one to eat chocolate every day seems ignorant and unhealthy. To an extent that can be true. Eating copious amounts of chocolate poses almost no health benefits and does nothing beneficial for a person’s body. However, enjoying the treat in a controlled way is completely acceptable given the positive outcomes associated with consuming the right type of chocolate. Dark chocolate is not as bad as one may think, and it could greatly affect one’s life in a positive
While Europe and the United States account for most chocolate consumption, the confection is growing in popularity in Asia and market forecasts are optimistic about the prospects in China and India (Nieburg, 2013, para 9). According to the CNN Freedom Project, the chocolate industry rakes in $83 billion a year, surpassing the Gross Domestic Product of over a hundred nations (“Who consumes the most chocolate,” 2012, para 3). If chocolate continues grow popular in Asia, it stands to become even more lucrative.
One reason we should not serve chocolate milk is there is too much sugar. For example, Chloe Baker, from the Australian Investigative Reporter, says, “That one carton of milk has 30 grams of added sugar, white milk to start has 12 grams of sugar already, that is more than soda!” Many people think that chocolate milk is healthy but, it really is not healthy at all. Also, “When kids drink just
Starting with the dark chocolate; this type of chocolate has a natural source of antioxidants. Then in 2008, Hershey began making chocolate with vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter (Hershey, n.d.). No milk chocolate is not a healthy snack but popping one in your mouth is only 25 calories (Sun-Sentinel, 2007). These improvements modified the chocolate recipe to attract more clientele (Hershey, n.d.).
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¨ Chocolate milk has 18 total grams of sugar (12 grams of lactose naturally found in all white milk and 6 grams of actual added sugar),¨ According to the Western Dairy Association, the fifteenth leading milk producer in the U.S. On the other hand, sports drinks and colas have almost three times the amount of added sugar. Cola has nine teaspoons of added sugar and sports drinks have about seven teaspoons of added sugar, according to Melissa Dobbins a Nutrients. This shows that colas and sports drinks are the problem when talking about obesity not the healthy nutrition drink chocolate milk, Kids are not obese because they drink chocolate milk because it has zero grams of fat and very little added sugar. This proves that kids are not obese because they drink chocolate milk, but, because they drink beverages with mountains of fattening ingredients.This proves that chocolate milk does not cause obesity but colas and sport drinks
Chocolate or cacao was first discovered by the Europeans as a New World plant, as the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. In Latin, Theobroma literally means: “food of the Gods” (Bugbee, Cacao and Chocolate: A Short History of Their Production and Use). Originally found and cultivated in Mexico, Central America and Northern South America, its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning “bitter water” (Grivetti; Howard-Yana, Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage). It was also a beverage in Mayan tradition that served a function as a ceremonial item. The cacao plant is g...
When cacao became available in Spain, it was modified with cinnamon and other spices; sugar was used to sweeten the mix. Somehow they were able to keep their drink invention among them for nearly 100 years before it escaped to Europe. Sweetened chocolate became an extreme craze for the continent. In a letter of 1779, a viceroy noted: “In this country [New Spain] cacao is primary food not only for persons of means as in other countries, but also among the poor people.” It seems that the people of Spain were content with sharing this savory chocolate among all the people, rather than those in other parts of Europe.
HFCS is being used for almost every food product in the food industry. However, if we look at HFCS from a limited point of view we just see it as something present in our food and not the health factors behind it. HFCS can be habit forming since it is a sweet replacement for sugar and in his article Peretti mentions that David Kessler said “sugar, through its metabolisation by the gut and hence the brain, is extremely addictive, just like cigarettes or alcohol.” People enjoy the taste and because of this they consume large quantities, which lead to health factors such as: obesity, diabetes, heart problems, infertility, liver problems, and so on. Our limited perspective may cause us to lose sight of how much of a risk HFCS possess. In my case I use to think that my family gained significant amount of weight only through fatty foods and...
In 2013, about 7.4 million tons of chocolate is expected to be consumed globally, totaling to nearly $110 billion (Pardomuan, Nicholson). I can honestly say that I will be one of the many people who contribute immensely to those massive quantities. Chocolate has always been one of my guilty pleasures, leading me to consider myself a “chocoholic.” After 20 years of eating chocolate, I learned there is more to chocolate than meets the eye. Many chemicals compose each delicious piece creating multiple psychological effects on the mind. With the knowledge of the chemical and psychological influences that chocolate has on the human mind and body and my own curiosity as to why I love it so much, this led me to ask: Why is chocolate considered such a pleasurable and craveable food?
chocolate is a food that people can just THINK about chocolate and feel satisfaction. chocolate is made from the cacao tree which is found in the amazon, and the forests of central and south america. these “chocolate beans” grow inside of cacao pods and then are made into a chocolate liquid. there is an ongoing debate on where chocolate was first made and who made it. some think that it was the aztecs, some think it was the mayans but others think that the olmecs were the people who made chocolate.
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The dark chocolate, on the other hand is a strong, somewhat bitter, deep chocolate flavor, a lower amount of sugar and milk fats, and more cocoa butter, and flavor enhancers such as vanilla, chili peppers, orange and mint. Dark chocol...
Introduction The 58 million pounds of chocolate eaten on chocolate the drenched holiday of Valentines Day is likely made from cocoa beans from West Africa. The Ivory Coast, also known as Cote D'ivoire in Africa is the source of about 35 percent of the world’s cocoa production. These cocoa beans were likely harvested by unpaid child workers that are being held captive on plantations as slaves. Chocolate companies use these cocoa plantations as their cocoa source for their chocolate products. And since the companies want to maximize their profit, they push plantation owners to lower prices, causing plantations to cut price any way possible (Philpott).
Growth of the chocolate industry over the last decade has been driven in large part by an increasing awareness of the health benefits of certain types of chocolate. Chocolate consumers are considerably price insensitive. Except in rare circumstances consumers are willing to purchase what they consider an “affordable luxury.” Chocolate is one of the most popular and widely consumed products in the world, with North American countries devouring the lion's share, followed by Europe
These sweets can direct our health to diabetes, heart disease, and cancers later in life. Many sweet desserts will increase our blood sugar and our triglycerides. Triglycerides are a type of fat in the blood. If someone who is diabetes or a diabetes-related condition, he or she will have a risk of heart disease due to the sugar. According to Rachel Johnson, a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington, “What we know is that added sugars put you at a higher risk for a poor lipid profile . . . A poor lipid profiles increase your risk for coronary heart disease” (Cox). Diabetics need to avoid having lots of desserts. Besides being diabetic, most Americans are having long-term health issues because of too many calories through sugary foods. A person who is receiving the sweet is not getting any fiber, vitamins, or minerals. This cause crucial health development to him or