Chocolate Can Make Your Heart Healthy?

By : Carrie Dierks

Who does not love chocolate? Even chocolate is not only used as food. People also write some jokes about chocolate: A balanced diet is to eat the same amount of dark chocolate and white chocolate every day. Chocolate is good. And who buy and eat it too did little. No wonder that research on chocolate got its own place in the chocolate-making enterprises.

There is chocolate made very high melting point, so if brought to the desert once this chocolate will not melt. There are researchers who seek a special blend of chocolate with other flavors. But we also know that eating lots of chocolate is not really good. So much to feel guilty if you eat lots of chocolate. But there is an article written by Carrie Dierks who bring good news for chocolate fans. As with every issue has two different perspectives, the chocolate can be studied from two different sides of view.

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans are rich in aromatic compounds called falovonoids, which is also contained in tea leaves, mostly fruits and vegetables. To date, more than 4000 kinds of flavonoids have been identified. In a study sponsored by Mars, Inc.. (One of the largest U.S. chocolate company), researchers at the University of California Davis, also found that the flavonoids in chocolate increase the concentration of nitric oxide in the body. More results from this study is the process of making chocolate is actually destroys antioxidants compounds in chocolate. Mars has developed a new process in which the flavonoids in chocolate that is contained in their production is not lost. In the U.S. they would sell chocolate products in this process with the label "cocoapro".

Chocolate contains too much fat and sugar to be regarded as a healthy food. But many people who love to eat chocolate and science might be able to explain that this indulgence was not as bad as people think.