Few will say they do not love chocolates. Almost everybody enjoyed the sweetness of chocolate, its texture, its shape, its color or anything about the way it looks and tastes.
Chocolates are smooth, sweet and brown solid food. It can be a candy or use as a flavor to other foods like cakes, desserts, cookies, and breads. Chocolates can also be a drink, a flavor to coffee, sauces and ice creams.
Chocolates are made from the seeds of a cacao trees that is commonly grow in Africa, South and Central America, and some parts of the world most especially in tropical areas.
1. Dry and roast the cocoa or cacao beans.
2. Ground the cocoa beans and then crush to form thick liquid called chocolate liquor, which contains a fat or the cocoa butter.
3. Add sugar, vanilla, and other cocoa butter (it makes the chocolate product creamy and delicious) to the chocolate liquor.
4. Mix well all the ingredients and let it cool and ready to be serving.
*To make milk chocolate, add condensed or dried milk to the ingredients.
• Unsweetened chocolate- this chocolate does not have any sweet ingredients like sugar or milk. It is purposely made for baking use.
• Dark chocolate- it taste bitter and sweet combination. It has less sugar content, some extra cacao content and vanilla flavoring. Dark chocolates are usually use in flavoring cakes, desserts and other foods.
• White chocolate- these are chocolates that does not contain chocolate liquor. It is a mixture of cocoa butter, milk powder, milk fats, sugar and corn syrup. It is often use in candy coating.
• Milk chocolate which is common nowadays can be eaten in bars or can also use in candy coating.
Chocolates are love by many even if it lack of nutrients and vitamins, but as to some studies and researches by some specialist and doctors, chocolates can give a good benefit to our body.
• Chocolates are a great source of energy.
• It was also proven that dark chocolates contain antioxidants, which help our body cells resist damage caused by free radicals.
• Dark chocolates, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, can also lower high blood pressure among middle age people with mild hypertension.
• Dark chocolates can improve cardiovascular health.
*Despite the health benefits we can get from the chocolate, it is advisable to take chocolates moderately because it contains high cholesterol.
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I am a chocolate foodie. The fridge is always loaded. Whenever I am on holidays abroad the most shopping I do is for chocolates.
Eating chocolates was confined to kids and Children only. There were people who were not allowing their children to eat chocolates. It was Parry & Co., which introduced Chocolates in India. Their Chocolates were very crispy and soft. The Chocolate was coming in a Pink color paper. Some Chocolates were wrapped in red, and green color papers also. Subsequently, they introduced Coffee Bite Chocolate which was in a Brown colored wrapper. Everything was fine. However, Cadbury could give them a tough competition by introducing various types of chocolates, toffees, Diary Products etc., It has revolutionized the industry with its Dairy products.
Today everybody prefers to have a chocolate irrespective of their age.
Yes. Chocolates are good antioxidants and prevent the free radicals which minimize the immune system of the body. Chocolates as good antioxidants provide good resistance to the body in fighting the diseases.
As per the latest Research Report, they effectively control the Blood Pressure and also protects from attacks.
Other proven benefits of chocolates:
Chocolate may improve your skin
Researchers at Germany’s Heinrich Heine University exposed chocolate eaters to ultraviolet light and found that after six weeks, they had 15 percent less skin reddening than those who didn’t eat it. ‘We believe the compounds in chocolate act as UV filters,’ says study leader Wilhelm Stahl. After 12 weeks, the chocolate eaters’ skin was 16 percent denser and 42 percent less scaly. Concerned about it causing acne? Researchers at Australia’s University of Newcastle reviewed the evidence and found nothing to suggest that chocolate triggers blemishes.
‘ Chocolate checks cancer
Georgetown University researchers found that when breast cancer cells were treated with chocolate flavanols, the cells stopped dividing. The findings could also apply to other cancers.
Chocolate works as a relaxing food that boost your mood. I also believe that it also relieves the eczema for children and adults improving the immune system.