Dark chocolate fan padt 3 decades. Gotta have dark chocolate every day.
The best comes from the island country of Grenada. Picked it up there first hand. Yum!
Grenada Chocolate Company video of how it us harvested. Been there.
https://thegrenadachocolate.com/
Real … pure dark chocolate doesn’t melt in your hand… unlike milk chocolate.
I used to wonder how it was that the ancient Aztecs and European colonizers could appreciate chocolate, since it is very bitter at high purity / cocoa levels like they surely consumed back then (initially at least). But now after trying 95% and 100% dark chocolate over a period of time, it’s grown on me. I now think 70% is way too sweet, and I can’t even eat it anymore.
Like everything, tastes adapt.
Covered in this thread earlier: COSMOS Study Shows Cocoa Flavanols Reduce Risk of Cardiovascular Death by 27% - #197 by RapAdmin
Everything except mother’s milk is an acquired taste!
Just curious if it is any superior to raw cacao (undutched) powder(such as Navitas or Cocoavia) or cacao nibs?
I think this article mainly questions the touted benefits of dark chocolate bars being sold in grocery stores or elsewhere since they have added sugars which is a valid point. Thats what causes dopamine surge and wanting the brain to consume more specially when the neocortex has been conditioned to beleive ‘dark chocolat=flavanols, Flavanols= Cardiovascualr health’. Added sugar is for your dopaminergic circuits to work in the background…brilliant neuromarketing hack!!