[Balata]

Hershey bars are full of refined sugar and milk. You need to eat 85% or higher coco content for the chocolate to be good for you.

You are correct on the sugar and milk, but the % cocoa is different. What's important about the health benefits of Cocoa and is not it's percentage but if it has been roasted during the process.

Roasting destroys between 50-75% of the good bio active phyto-nutrients. As you know in nutrition when you cook veggies you destroy the nutrient value.

[little jeremiah]

Hmm, I have bought bulk cocoa powder with no added ingredients - just plain, no sugar, nothing else, with the label “dutched”. I will have to look into this. I am not a huge chocolate fan but it has to be bittersweet or semisweet, milk chocolate has always made me gag.

I just make food with chocolate in it occasionally but heck, if it’s healthy, I’ll cook it more often.

So even roasting is bad? Is regular plain cocoa powder roasted?

I don’t agree that cooking vegies destroys nutrients thought. Raw potoates? ick.

[southern rock]

Interesting. I had read that the method of cooking counts for alot. Steaming is the best, and can actually realease more nutrients in some cases. I do always try to go for “raw” almond butter and cashew butter.