White Chocolate and Milk Chocolate contain a ton of sugar.
Dark Chocolate is made up primarly of cocoa. It’s much healthier.
As a general rule, the darker the better.
Don’t be fooled. REAL dark is made at least by 80% of cocoa. If it contains less than 80%, then it’s not actually dark chocolate.
If you are used to eating a lot of sugar in your diet, you might be horrified and shocked by the taste of dark chocolate. Don’t go to extremes like 99% immediatly. You need to get used to the bitter taste.
Isn’t this common knowledge?
Ok to be fair I live in Belgium. We know a thing or two about chocolate.
And shorn scrotums at the age of fourteen according to Dr Evil in Austin Powers but I digress.
You should know milk chocolate is the best tasting one
To get the most “health benefit,” select dark chocolate (70-80% cocoa) with the least amount of added sugar.
I may eat dark chocolate but I sure don’t tell myself it’s for “health benefit”
You should know that eating oats straight from a bag is healthier than making oatmeal.
There’s a balance between nutrition and taste/enjoyment. I’ve never been able to stomach more than a bite or two of dark chocolate at once, and that’s perfectly okay.
Careful. Consumer Reports found lead and cadmium in popular brands of dark chocolate: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
Yeah, I was about to say that I thought this was already considered old news. Probably all chocolate is infected. Good thing I wouldn’t care if it went extinct.
Even if you aren’t a frequent consumer of chocolate, lead and cadmium can still be a concern. It can be found in many other foods—such as sweet potatoes, spinach, and carrots—and small amounts from multiple sources can add up to dangerous levels.
Good thing those veggies aren’t important.
TIL for me
Not if you’re a dog. Stop assuming I’m not a dog!
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Another obvious shill from big Dark Chocolate
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Edit: check the history. Nonstop link posts, from the usual sources that these accounts use, and no comments.
As a general rule, the darker the better.
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard that.
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Honestly, dark chocolate tastes much better than the milky stuff anyway, its way too sweet. Still, i’m not sure how ‘healthy’ it is compared to anything else.
Yep. I can’t stand milk chocolate. So gross.
The best way to eat dark chocolate is as a Mounds bar. The bitterness is swallowed whole by the sickly sweetness of the coconut and the coconut’s sickly sweetness is balanced out by the dark chocolate’s bitterness.
no shit, captain obvious.
I’d rather enjoy my chocolate and die young than eat chalk.
60% is peak tho
75%-80%. 60 is weak.
95% is dragon level
I eat 100% these days and it’s so good. The smell alone is amazing. When there’s nothing masking the taste of the cocoa, you can really appreciate the differences between different types too. Also, I tried some 99% recently and it’s shocking what a difference 1% can make, it’s completely different experience.
I’m who they make the 98% for. I honestly like the taste of almost fully bitter chocolate. I generally pair it with a drink because of how dry it is, but I enjoy the crumble of it and the taste is I guess something most people don’t like. I rather enjoy it.
I bought someone I fancied 99% chocolate as a joke. After a year or so, we got together. I opened the cupboard one day and saw it there, unopened. It came upon me to eat it :)
I love dark chocolate and until that point I thought the darker the better. Since then, I realised that I top out around 85%.
I’m more of a Kobold than a dragon.
Unless you suffer from acid reflux in which case the opposite is true.
