Can you actually buy 'Healthy Chocolate'...?

Virdi · 20 Oct 2009 at 10:58

Hi all,

My question for today is - Can you actually buy 'Healthy Chocolate'...?

...or am I just kidding myself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1161288/Is-new-healthy-chocolate-good-true.html

The Dread Pirate · 20 Oct 2009 at 10:59

Yes It's Called Dark Chocolate!

scorza · 20 Oct 2009 at 10:59

I've heard on the radio that dark chocolate is healthier than milk/white chocolate (shame it tastes disgusting). Probably less healthy than no chocolate at all though

robgmun · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:01

dark chocolate tastes 10 times better. You really need to improve your tastes if you think it's disgusting

RDM · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:02

Chocolate, like most foods, isn't unhealthly. Too much chocolate, like most foods, is.

Fenris · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:03

RDM said:
Chocolate, like most foods, isn't unhealthly. Too much chocolate, like most foods, is.

Alfie · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:05

Green and Blacks Maya Gold. Nuff said

http://www.greenandblacks.com/us/what-we-make/bars/maya-gold.html

Food of the gods.

deano_deano · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:05

robgmun said:
dark chocolate tastes 10 times better. You really need to improve your tastes if you think it's disgusting

I think like anything it is down to personal preference. My gf loves fine chocolate so I have tried my fair share but just can't take the bitterness of the high % chocoa ones.

meghatronic · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:05

robgmun said:
dark chocolate tastes 10 times better. You really need to improve your tastes if you think it's disgusting

You never heard of people having different tastes?

Dark chocolate tastes one million times worse than milk for me.

CBJ · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:06

The closest you'll get is chocolate with a very high cocoa content. If it's 80% cocoa then that only leaves 20% for sugar and fat, though of course that's still not exactly a low-calorie snack. Cocoa itself has some beneficial ingredients.

Cosimo · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:06

Plain dark chocolate but don’t forget to count the calories.

robgmun · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:08

Milk Chocolate doesn't taste anything like real chocolate at all.

After getting used to fine dark chocolate, milk chocolate tastes like it actually is, sickly cream and sugar and makes me feel ill. Tastes no different to hersheys to me anymore

Virdi · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:10

I wish there was a proper alternative to Chocolate - Which didn't contain so much fat and sugar - But gave the same taste and pleasure.

sicknote · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:10

It's like everything else that tastes good. Eat it in moderation.

steve-h · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:18

stop worrying about it... you're not going to keel over if you have a bar or two, trust me.

Xappy · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:12

Chocolate releases endorphins into the brain. It's good for you.

Energize · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:38

Lower blood pressure, you'd probably be better off putting propranolol in the chocolates than eating all those calories.

arknor · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:40

RDM said:
Chocolate, like most foods, isn't unhealthly. Too much chocolate, like most foods, is.

its full of sugar and milk though , dark choclate isnt

lambda · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:41

stupid idea.. chocolate is chocolate; an unhealthy treat

if you're fat and worrying about calories, than dont eat it..

there is no point eating low fat alternatives because you will just end up eating more of it.

D.P. · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:49

Virdi said:
Hi all,

My question for today is - Can you actually buy 'Healthy Chocolate'...?

...or am I just kidding myself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1161288/Is-new-healthy-chocolate-good-true.html

Lint 90%
Or indeed any dark chocolate over 70% cocoa solids has very little fat or sugar, and also tastes infinitely better than the watered down murk such that you only need to eat a little.