DailyDirt: Eating More Chocolate

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Fri, Apr 3rd 2015 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Plenty of folks like chocolate, so it makes some sense to try to make chocolate ever so slightly more healthy (as long as the taste isn't horribly affected). If you're going to binge on chocolate in the near future, you might want to check out a few of these links to help rationalize your chocolate consumption.

Scientists have figured out some simple processing steps that help maximize the naturally-occurring antioxidants in chocolate. Storing cacao pods for a week and roasting them at lower temperatures seem to help make slightly healthier chocolate -- as if anyone needed another excuse to eat chocolate. [url]
Watch how 12 pounds of chocolate is formed into an enormous Easter egg. Then watch some cacao farmers from the Ivory Coast eat chocolate for the first time. [url]
The global demand for chocolate is increasing, but the supply hasn't caught up. The price of chocolate might be going up unless farmers figure out how to grow more cacao to feed the world's hunger for delicious chocolate bars. [url]

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Filed Under: antioxidants, cacao, candy, chocolate, food, health

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Roland, 4 Apr 2015 @ 5:08am

CCN-51
There's a variety of cacao tree that is hardy & resistant to frosty pod & the other diseases that are decimating this field. It also produces good yields. It has one drawback: tastes like dirt. But scientists are working on it.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-save-chocolate-tree-without-sacrificing-flavor-1 80954148
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Anonymous Coward, 4 Apr 2015 @ 3:31pm

Is there a sarcastic and relevant comment that can be made in regards to how I can't watch the making of a 12 pound chocolate egg from my current geographical location?

Perhaps they think i'll pay 9.99 for a subscription to the chocolate network, or fear that I'll sell the chocolaty secrets to North Korea.
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- Rekrul, 4 Apr 2015 @ 5:41pm
  
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  Is there a sarcastic and relevant comment that can be made in regards to how I can't watch the making of a 12 pound chocolate egg from my current geographical location?
  
  Does this one work for you?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNSwj-5zp-4
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Anonymous Coward, 4 Apr 2015 @ 10:11pm

Uhm, hasn't 'antioxidants' been debunked?
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