Benefit of Chocolate for Health
published by RIYO MCC on Apr 18, 2012
Chocolate or cocoa products processed from fruit is a healthy food. Trees that produce fruit that further processed into chocolate made into three kinds, namely criollo, forastero and Trinitario. Criollo cocoa types have complex flavors and soft, but less intense chocolate flavor, while forastero have a strong chocolate flavor. While Trinitario menupakan from crosses between criollo and forastero.
Savor chocolate to health as an antioxidant, antioxidants in chocolate obtained from beans that contain antioxidant flavonoids that are useful to keep free radicals. However, the efficacy of antioxidants depends on the levels of cocoa in the chocolate you eat, the greater the levels of cocoa, the greater the antioxidant benefit in chocolate bar. To see the levels of antioxidants in chocolate may be seen in the composition of the outer packaging may also be brown or brown color of itself, the darker the chocolate, the greater the cacao content contained therein. Antioxidant flavonoids contained in the cocoa bean is proportional to 6 or 4.5 cups of the apple.
In addition to being antioxidants, chocolate is also potent to help the body to rest or reduce insomnia. These properties are contained in the protein contained in cocoa beans, which are rich in protein amino acids tryptophan, phenylalanine and tyrosine.
Other properties are capable of supplying chocolate calcium and magnesium to the body. It is therefore useful to make your chocolate come to life again.
So the health benefits of chocolate for you, namely:
1.. Antioxidants to counteract free radicals
2. Helps the body to rest or reduce insomnia
3. Create a vibrant
But that has been mixed with chocolate milk tends to generate a lot of fat, which is why milk chocolate bars with high levels of avoided because it can cause obesity. After eating chocolate you should consume lots of water to avoid the risk of kidney stones
