Dark Chocolate is Good for You

[Mardo]

I recently developed a taste for it. You need to get 'proper' dark chocolate, at least 71% cocoa. My favorite is Green&Black's 85%.

Dark chocolate is loaded with nutrients that can positively affect your health. Made from the seed of the cocoa tree, it is one of the best sources of antioxidants on the planet. Studies show that dark chocolate (not the sugary crap) can improve health and lower the risk of heart disease.
authoritynutrition.com/7-health-benefits-dark-chocolate/

Is anyone else a dark-choc lover? Any tips for a relatively inexperienced lover like me?

 

[gb2000ie]

Green & Blacks is just amazing stuff!

Also - dark chocolate has the advantage of being rich enough to stop you wanting to eat a lot of it. You get more nutrients, less sugar, and less quantity than with milk chocolate.

B.

 

[HustleMe15]

Feed Me Chocolate!

I'll have to look for that. Right now just eat a lot of Hershey, Dove, and Ghiradelli.

 

[syko2d4]

Green & Black is way out of my price range now that I am enjoying austerity, but Lidl to the rescue, they have some very cheap, made in Germany, chocolate that is a decent quality substitute.
More important than any nutritional benefit is the psychological lift that good chocolate brings, it's the best anti depressant.

not sure where you're from, but if you're in the US, theres a chain called Aldi that has it pretty cheap for the high cocao content stuff...

 

[dargelos]

This one looks tasty, if the white layer really is flavoured with the of Eurocreme models, as per my dreams.

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

I love high quality dark. Green and Blacks is good. There's a brand called Alter Eco is great. But yes it has to be over like 70% to be considered healthy. In the states Chocolove is a great brand and reasonably priced. Equal Exchange is a good brand as well.