Hurrah for chocolate! Recent studies on cacao have concluded that best results were obtained by consuming 600 to 900 total mg of Total Flavonoids, plant based antioxidants that help the body's cells resist damage by free radicals. Flavonoids are easily destroyed in commercial processing. So even if a label shows 60 per cent or higher cocoa content, it is still processed, destroying most of the fragile flavonoids. There is only one product I know of that carries the flavonoid count on its label. Three servings of this chocolate will give you 1000 flavonoids with only 100 calories. To get that many flavonoids in commercial chocolate, you would get 10 times the calories because of the processing and added sugar. You can read more at: www.cocoa101.com.
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Hurrah for chocolate! Recent studies on cacao have concluded that best results were obtained by consuming 600 to 900 total mg of Total Flavonoids, plant based antioxidants that help the body's cells resist damage by free radicals. Flavonoids are easily destroyed in commercial processing. So even if a label shows 60 per cent or higher cocoa content, it is still processed, destroying most of the fragile flavonoids. There is only one product I know of that carries the flavonoid count on its label. Three servings of this chocolate will give you 1000 flavonoids with only 100 calories. To get that many flavonoids in commercial chocolate, you would get 10 times the calories because of the processing and added sugar. You can read more at: www.cocoa101.com.
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