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Are you too like me head-over-heels in love with dark chocolate? Now you can hog them as much as you wish without feeling guilty of it affecting your health or you putting on tons of weight.

Dark chocolate is also known as healthy chocolate when compared to milk chocolate or white chocolate simply because of its health benefits. Dark chocolate has more than 65% of cocoa content in it. The taste of dark chocolate may not be as appealing as that of the other two, but it can boast of being as elegant as wine with a class that associates with a fine dinner.

Have you wondered how this wonderful edible delight is made? Cacao pods are harvested from the cacao plant. These shells are removed to obtain cacao nibs which are fermented and made a paste out of it. This paste is call cocoa liquor or chocolate liquor. This liquor can be routed to cocoa solids and cocoa butter. This cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportion gives bitter chocolate.

By controlling the quantity of cocoa butter and solids in the cocoa liquor and by adding fat and other sweeteners different types of chocolates are produced. The bitter chocolate when combined with milk and sugar in varying degrees forms the very popular dark , milk and white chocolate. Similarly if other ingredients are added, chocolate of different flavours are produced.

Dark chocolate is said to be highly beneficial. Studies have signified that consuming a bar of dark chocolate everyday can lower your blood pressure and even cholesterol level.

It is known to be good for the circulatory system, which is due to the component called epicathechin present in cocoa.

Did you know chocolate is known to be an aphrodisiac? It means an object that increases sexual desire. But there is no scientific proof for this. Another known goodness of chocolate is that consuming chocolate drinks are known to give better muscle recovery when compared to other recovery beverage of high carbohydrate.

Cocoa also plays a key role in medicine. Studies say that cocoa when used in certain types of drugs helps in the treatment of diseases like diabetes. Also cocoa is said to be a good supplement in delaying the brain function delay that happens with age. It is also effective in reducing diarrhoea and cough symptoms.

Now, lets see into a few evils of dark chocolate. Chocolates can cause obesity, by providing high level of calories. This is mostly seen in milk chocolates and white chocolate due to the fat content and sugar in it. Chocolate is known to increase acne, but it is mostly due to the cocoa content or due to the fatty substances used in chocolate. The lead content in chocolate can cause lead poisoning and is highly dangerous to animals.

It is important to buy dark chocolate from good retailers as if the cocoa beans are not handled well, it give a sour taste, making dark chocolate not so delightful.

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