An explanation and understanding on chocolate

Okay so, I have thought about this and have given in person explanations on chocolate, so now, I am going to give an in depth explanation on chocolate for everyone to read and understand. Good news and bad news. The good news is chocolate, in its serving size quantity is healthy! Bad news, only dark chocolate is healthy in its serving size quantity. 

First off, let me start by stating that most people do not really like true blue chocolate! True blue chocolate comes from the cocoa bean and typically has a slightly bitter yet with a hint of a nutty taste. The cocoa bean in any natural form (whether grounded, whole, powder) is healthy! That's where the flavonoids and antioxidants are! A similar comparison to chocolate is flour. Flour in its natural state is a light brown/tan color because the wheat plant is a nice tan/golden brown color. However, the more of the natural seed that is stripped away from the flour, which is called "the wheat germ" or, as you will see on food packages called durum, the whiter and light the flour will be. And the lighter the flour, the less nutrients and the less beneficial it will be for us to consume. This standard principal goes for chocolate as well! Basically, the way white and milk chocolate is formed is by taking out more and more of the natural cocoa bean. White chocolate has absolutely NO "chocate" or no coca bean in it. White chocate is the equivalent to white, or bleached flour, absolutely ZERO nutritional or health benefits. All that white chocate is, is the remainders of the cocoa bean after it has been stripped (the remains tend to be oils and startchy fats) and loads and loads of processed, "white" or cane sugar. Milk chocolate has about 25%-50% of the cocoa bean within. So anywhere from 1/2 to 3/4 of the cocoa bean has been stripped from the milk chocolate. Milk chocolate isn't healthy either because in order to replaced what was stripped from the cocoa bean they have to replace it with additives like added oils, processed chemicals, added sugars, etc. 

And then there is dark chocolate. Dark chocolate ranges (from what I've seen) to having 65%-100% of the pure and complete cocoa bean within. This means only 1/3 or less of the cocoa bean is stripped from the chocolate. Which means that dark chocolate is going to have the least added oils, fats, sugars, etc. because of this, this is why dark chocolate is the "purest" most real chocolate and actually has some health benefits since the majority or all of the cocoa bean is in tact in the chocolate.

So, this is why I will say to people that if you do not like dark chocolate, then you are not a true chocolate fan. Because if you favor white or milk but hate dark chocolate, that means what you really like about "chocolate" are the added fats, oils, sugars, etc. Chocolate in its true state is the cocoa bean, nothing more or less. 

So, if you have one square to the serving size of dark chocolate ONLY per day, you do get health benefits from the antioxidants and flavonoids within! So there is some good news, some chocolate is healthy, just that it is dark chocolate and not white or milk chocolate.

Food for thought!!! That's all for now everyone! Remember to stay forever healthy and forever fit! It's a lifestyle! Not a fad!