What is dark chocolate? How beneficial for health?

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If you dreamed of eating chocolate every day, now you have an excuse – or eight.

A bite of dark chocolate during the day can not only be good for your heart but can also improve brain function, reduce stress and reduce the risk of diabetes.

What is dark chocolate?

Dark chocolate is a more bitter flavored chocolate that is made from cocoa solids, sugar and cocoa butter. It does not contain any milk.

Dark chocolate is usually 50% to 100% cocoa. Most brands of chocolate contain 85%, 85% or 90% cocoa.

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How is the nutrition supply?

Dark chocolate naturally contains iron, magnesium, copper, manganese, so it has health benefits and many more.

Iron helps our body make red blood cells which supply oxygen to the body. Copper helps iron to make hemoglobin. Magnesium directs the parathyroid gland of our body to function properly. And manganese helps the body make some enzymes Of which “food breaking enzyme” is significant.

Types of chocolates:

Actually four types of chocolates available in the market. There are-

  1. Milk chocolate
  2. Dark chocolate
  3. White chocolate and
  4. Raw chocolate

How beneficial for health?

It seems easier to say the disadvantages than to say the benefits of dark chocolate because it has no disadvantages. Let’s take a look at the benefits:

1. Dark chocolate lowers the body’s sugar level and controls diabetes.
2. This reduces the risk of stroke.
3. Helps to reduce blood pressure.
4. Keeps the heart active. Helps to cure various heart diseases.
5. Eliminates various problems caused by cold.
6. Plays a role in the development of brain function.
6. Plays an important role during pregnancy.
6. It is a huge store of antioxidants.
9. And it controls depression, anxiety.

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Dark Chocolate is the solution to all the problems we are currently going through. It seems that if we put some amount of dark chocolate in our food list every day then many of our problems will go away.

And when you see chocolate, the depression goes away, doesn’t it?

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Marzan Ramim

Content Writer

Marzan Ramim has completed BSc from Dhaka University. She started out as a writer for Authority of ChocoCraving in 2018. She now manages writer communications, topic selection, and managing reviews of all food content.