Reasons why you love Chocolate?

Chocolate: An Ambrosial Dessert

The sweetness comes itself with mouth watering images of creamy, dark-brown milky Chocolates in mind. The cherishing dessert is prepared from the roasted and ground cocoa seeds in three forms that are cocoa solids, butter and liquid.

The most favorite food of all age groups has a vast procedure before it reaches us in the form of delicious bars. These seeds of cocoa tree are intensely bitter in taste. Therefore, they are fermented in order to develop the desired flavor. Afterwards they are dried, cleaned and then roasted and finally are molted in the form of liquid, paste, blocks or bars that we purchase. 

 

   

Mainly originated from America, and now widely spread in the West African countries and in the whole world as well. Prepared through ages, it was served as liquid in the initial period of origination and was called as liquor. In today’s lifestyle it is used in different fields like particularly in desserts, cakes, pudding, mousse, brownies, and cookies. Apart from those used as flavoring ingredient in different foods and also served as beverages in chocolate milk and hot chocolate. Popular in alcoholic drinks too, most famous is Crème de cacao.

The finished product of chocolate is of different kinds.

Some Types of Chocolates mentioned with some good examples of chocolates to have:

·         Milk Chocolate: The sweetest chocolate contains condensed milk in high quantity. And thus possess 540 calories and very less amount of cocoa are added.

·         White Chocolate: The chocolate has same texture as milk and dark chocolate. Don’t have cocoa solids but imparts dark color.

·         Unsweetened Chocolate: Contains 75% of cocoa with small amount or negligible calories. Thus has strong deep chocolate flavor and intense bitter taste. Also called as baking chocolate or pure chocolate liquor.

·         Dark Chocolate: This type is made by adding fat and sugar to the cocoa mixture. It is semisweet with low sugar content, as 15% concentration of chocolate liquor consists of minimum 35% cocoa solids.

Benefits of chocolate:

Yes, chocolate is healthy for human body when took in right quantity.

·         Chocolate is a very good food when one is suffering from stress on any type of tension.

·         Also prevents dizziness or sleepy moods.

·         Helps to memorize things, when ate while studying.

 

Healthy living by Dark Chocolate or Unsweetened Chocolate:

Dark chocolate is the one with high cocoa percentages, contains cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Especially prepared without the usage of milk, with low sugar, fat and calories. These all above qualities makes it much healthier than other types.

 

It is known by many names like Black Chocolate, Dark-Black Chocolate, Plain Chocolate, or Sour Chocolate.

Have you ever here about Lindt Chocolates? The sweet is made from the Tropical Theobroma cocoa tree seeds. As it contains many dietary minerals, with 29% of vitamin-B6 and 92% of iron in every 100 grams of it. Other minerals like magnesium, copper, manganese present in high percentage makes it highly nutritious. Possess mostly saturated fats which are not so complex for digestion. Other health benefits are:

·         Best source of antioxidants.

·         Lowers risks of heart diseases.

·         The bio-active compounds like soluble fiber and caffeine improve blood flow and purify blood.

·         Protects skin from ultra-violet harmful rays of sun.

·         Also helps to improve brain functioning.

Looking at the benefits of dark chocolate one should prefer it for healthy living. And the delicious taste of chocolate attracts us itself no matter of what type it belongs.

Here are some chocolate brands that I mostly recommend to eat:

• Amul dark chocolate (Indian origin).
• Lindt dark chocolate.
• Bournville dark cocoa chocolate.
• Temptation

Eat healthy stay healthy.