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Why Chocolate Is Good for Your Heart 9/24/2008 - Can't live without dessert? Forget about ice cream and cakes, and go for dark chocolate! It′s actually good for you -- in moderation of course. Chocolate and cocoa are made from the cacao bean, one of the richest sources of flavanols, a group of polyphenolic antioxidants. The major flavanols in...

Processed Cocoa Loses Two-Thirds of Health-Enhancing Alkaloids 9/24/2008 - A common process used to make cocoa more easy to digest and to mix into other foods eliminates approximately two-thirds of the flavanols originally contained in the plant, according to research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Cocoa has attracted increasing attention recently...

Eating Cocoa Improves Blood Vessel Function in Diabetics 9/15/2008 - Diabetics who regularly consume flavanol-rich cocoa may improve their blood vessel function and reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study conducted by an international team of researchers and published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Diabetes is known...

Cheap, Processed Chocolate Has Virtually No Health Benefits Due to Lack of Flavanols 7/1/2008 - People should not be misled into believing that the typical chocolate bar is good for heart health, according to an editorial published in the influential medical journal Lancet, because most processed chocolate bars contain very low amounts of the nutrient that makes chocolate good for you. A series...

Hershey's launches new antioxidant chocolate products with emphasis on health 4/5/2007 - The Hershey Company has announced that it is adding two new products to its "goodness chocolate portfolio" of antioxidant-rich chocolate. The company has established special labeling for its new line, touting high levels of flavanols that occur naturally in cocoa beans. "Consumers are very interested...

Chocoholics rejoice; study shows that the flavanols in cocoa can reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer 5/26/2006 - The news the world has awaited with bated breath is finally here: Cocoa prevents cancer and heart disease. Candy producer Mars Inc., along with Harvard University, released the results of a 10-year study on Feb. 9 revealing that cocoa – rather, the flavanols in cocoa – can substantially reduce the risk...

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