Really Healthy Chocolate More than Fruit?

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Chocolate is often used as 'medicine' to eliminate stress and improve mood.
Not only delicious, snacks from South America is indeed known to have many health benefits.

Researchers at the Center for Health and Nutrition Hershey chocolate declared worthy of the title of 'super fruit'.
From studies in the laboratory, are known to have many antioxidant chocolate.

Levels of polyphenols and flavonoids in cocoa powder one gram more than the fruit used to make juice.

Experts found the cocoa beans, fruit origin chocolate has extraordinary nutritional macronutrient content, as quoted from medindia.net.

The findings, published in the Journal of Chemical showed that dense chocolate (dark chocolate) and cocoa powder contain flavonoids and polyphenols is higher than fruit juice.

Antioxidants found in fruits such as grapes, strawberries and pomegranates, some types of juice, dark chocolate, green tea and red wine.
Antioxidants are compounds that will fight cell-damaging free radicals.
When the body lacks antioxidants, can cause health problems.

However, other experts assessing the phrase 'super fruit' is not true and just created a manufacturer as part of marketing.
Therefore, there is no one type of food that has all the essential nutrients.