Dark chocolate recommended

Amity Island

Amity Island

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Relationship to Diabetes
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If people stick to dark chocolate with over 70 per cent cacao it has major health benefits.

The key ingredients are polyphenols - a helpful substance which can assist in reducing inflammation in the body - and this can assist in avoiding dementia, arthritis and diabetes.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Prof Tim Spector says sweet treat can stop dementia and diabetes

Nutritional scientist said this kind of chocolate is packed with good minerals and fibre and added 'one thing always surprises people'
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Is it me or does this story (and red wine) seem to come round every year or two on alternate rotation with the ones saying “sorry folks, those don’t do you any good after all”?
 
nonethewiser said:
Benefits of high % cocoa chocolate is been well known for long time.
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People have claimed that. (Mostly shortly before Easter and Christmas, in news reports which turn out to come from industry sources.)

I'm not sure there's a whole lot of evidence that eating normal quantities of dark chocolate might be positive to health, is there?

(I've nothing against dark chocolate (it's what I prefer), just as I've nothing against cinnamon. I just don't eat them for health reasons.)
 
Bruce Stephens said:
I've nothing against dark chocolate (it's what I prefer), just as I've nothing against cinnamon. I just don't eat them for health reasons.)
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That’s pretty much my take on these stories personally :D
 
Most of the chocolate I enjoyed would be classed as 'bad boys' these days - KitKat, Mars, Twix and I liked the cheaper stuff that was often used to make Easter eggs and chocolate ornaments. Purists will cringe. I say I used to enjoy them but I very rarely eat chocolate of any sort, haven't for 5 years or more. My wife eats Green & Blacks 85% stuff which I'm not keen on, which makes it easier to avoid. It would only take a bar of cheap fruit and nut, and I'd be back on it like a lapsed smoker.
 
Pidgeonpost said:
Most of the chocolate I enjoyed would be classed as 'bad boys' these days - KitKat, Mars, Twix and I liked the cheaper stuff that was often used to make Easter eggs and chocolate ornaments. Purists will cringe. I say I used to enjoy them but I very rarely eat chocolate of any sort, haven't for 5 years or more. My wife eats Green & Blacks 85% stuff which I'm not keen on, which makes it easier to avoid. It would only take a bar of cheap fruit and nut, and I'd be back on it like a lapsed smoker.
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Yes, I can relate to that. If I slip, it's a long, fast slide to the bottom and a long hard slog to climb back up out of it, so I really try to avoid that first slip. It's all or nothing for me. That said, I am trying to develop a taste for the higher cocoa solids chocolate and I can manage 70% with a spoon of peanut butter. I used to think Bourneville was dark chocolate but at something like 37% it hardly counts 🙄 and it will also cause me to binge, so I buy the odd bar of 70% from Lidl and have a square every now and then and that doesn't upset the apple cart but equally I can't say I really enjoy it, but hoping that one day I will.
Unlike some people whose tastes change, I could go back to stuffing my face with Dairy Milk or Snickers at the drop of a hat but it is scary now that I can see what it does to me and the insulin needed to cover it and the number of jabs.... especially as I would keep going back for more.... and more until it was gone.... just provides a tiny bit of extra deterrent.
 
Lindt 85% Dark for me, although I can't get it at the moment and my back-up Morrisons equivalent has been unavailable for ages, so currently on Lindt 90% Dark, which I'm actually finding OK.
 
"I could go back to stuffing my face with Dairy Milk or Snickers at the drop of a hat".

That's my problem. I daren't buy it. One square leads to another until suddenly all I'm left with is the silver paper. And the guilt. :rofl:
 
Bruce Stephens said:
People have claimed that. (Mostly shortly before Easter and Christmas, in news reports which turn out to come from industry sources.)
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Tbh never noticed timing of these news reports to see if they are around Easter Christmas, but you may be on to something.

Bruce Stephens said:
I'm not sure there's a whole lot of evidence that eating normal quantities of dark chocolate might be positive to health, is there?
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Not sure, don't have scientific mind to dig deeper into these things nor do I have any interest to do so, but dark choc does contain flavanols which are known to have a antioxidant benefits so must be good for us albeit in a small way.

That all aside, if you enjoy something then eat it, don't have any hang ups with food so enjoy both dark choc & dairy choc in equal measures, fav dairy choc is Galaxy by a long way.
 
Not sure about the health benefits of dark chocolate, but a couple of squares is meant to reduce hunger pangs ?
 
Alan44 said:
Not sure about the health benefits of dark chocolate, but a couple of squares is meant to reduce hunger pangs ?
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It's generally recommended because it's a source of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds, especially flavonoid compounds, and minerals. 70% cocoa or higher is considered to be best option.


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I always put a bit in my chilli con carni , i get this one from M&S it has 5 bars inside i use one bar and break it up just adds a bit of extra goodness to the chilli without impacting glucose 😉
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I bought a bar of 70% Green and Black's yesterday and ate the whole lot.
It was delicious. I felt such a pig afterwards, though.
 
I've always preferred dark choc, always been my preference - but much like biscuits I can eat one and be satisfied. I haven't therefore needed to change anything, so I have no idea how to change. Much like X amount of carb. I just can't eat much stodge so I don't - though OH likes much more plain stodge than me so if he's dishing up he automatically gives me half what's there, cos he's very 'fair' LOL which I then leave on my plate and eat the rest of the meal round it.
 
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