Posted on 06/02/2004 9:15:27 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The Milky Way Midnight bars with the dark chocolate are sooooooo good. And now they're good for me too :-)
Bummer. I don't do dark chocolate...as I bite into a Godiva milk chocolate Open Oyster.
Nope! Cannot and will not accept that lighter chocolates aren't good for you but darker chocolates are. My favorite is lighter chocolates (really love my snickers bar too)/
Actually I am sure there is good stuff in milk chocolate, just not as much. You probably have to eat twice as much milk chocolate to make up for it. ;)
I knew it!!
Nothing like one or two or eight Shiner bocks diluted with two or three shots of rumple.
Not a bad idea. Not a bad idea at all.
In another article I found:
"In fact, a small bar of dark chocolate contains as many flavonoids as six apples, 4.5 cups of tea, 28 glasses of white wine and two glasses of red wine!"
http://www.brinkzone.com/qanda6.html
Probably milk chocolate contains 1/3 to 1/2 as much flavanoids as dark chocolate, so, as I said, you have to eat more milk chocolate to get the equivalent of what's in a piece of dark chocolate.
I am actually amazed that there are more flavanoids in chocolate, than in other well known foods/wine.
And more good news:
E. The Benefits of Eating Chocolate
Narrator: This is Science Today. A recent University of California study has found that people who ate one dark chocolate bar a week experienced an increase in blood vessel dilation, which is an important indicator of cardiovascular health. Researcher Mary Engler says that's because dark chocolate contains flavanols - a class of the heart-healthy flavanoids found in back tea and red wine.
Engler:There is a difference between the dark chocolate and the milk chocolate. Milk chocolate has milk in it and it dilutes out the amount of flavanoids. Dark chocolate has a higher percentage of flavanoids.
Narrator:And surprisingly, study participants didn't raise their cholesterol or weight by eating a dark chocolate bar, two weeks straight.
Engler: Chocolate has always had a bad rap because of the high calories and the fat content, but forty percent of the chocolate is represented as mono and saturate fat - oleic acid - which can lower LDL, or the bad cholesterol. The other sixty percent consists of thirty-five percent of stearic acid, which is cholesterol neutral.
http://www.ucop.edu/sciencetoday/pages/archive/transcripts/2003/sci768.html
I bet those brownies will go fast, even if people don't know it's also a health food. ;)
It stands to reason that milk chocolate is better than no chocolate at all. With or without flavonoids. ; )
It is not the choclate, but the hydrogenated trans fats included with those candy bars that are so bad for our cardiovascular health.
Yumm! :)
I never tried the Dove dark chocolate bar, but I have to look for it, next time I am in the grocery store.
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See the info (last paragraph) in my post 12.
Drat! And my lifelong taste for "sweet" chocolate has in the past few years... evaporated. As in, I'm indifferent to it. Will bitter chocolate do? Chicken en mole?
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