Chocolate Sweets - Enticing Healthy Eating
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Indulge in Dark
Chocolate
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Is Life like a Box of Chocolate?
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Health Benefits
Antioxidant powers—
polyphenols and
flavonoids—protect against
cancer and heart disease
Antioxidant levels are
superior compared to other
foods
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What about all that negativity
towards chocolate?
Type of dark chocolate to shop for:
Enzymes, flavonoids, amino acids active
Cacao content 70% or better
Sugar content less than 3g per serving
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Support a Good Cause
What is Fair-Trade certified (“slave
free”) chocolate?
June 2001—congress passed labeling
law for fair-trade certified chocolates
Help fight against childhood slavery in
Africa
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Fair-Trade Certified
Chocolate Companies
What about Hershey’s?
Alter Eco
Divine Chocolates
Equal Exchange
Green and Black’s
Ithaca Fine Chocolates
Sweet Earth Organic
Endangered Species
•January 2012—released this statement:
“Later this year, U.S. consumers will be
able to purchase Hershey’s Bliss®
products with 100 percent cocoa from
Rainforest Alliance Certified farms.
Rainforest Alliance Certified farms have
met comprehensive sustainability
standards that protect the environment
and ensure the safety and well-being of
workers, their families and communities.”
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Dark Chocolate’s
Aphrodisiac Powers…
Primary dark chocolate ingredients
include alkaloids that work as
aphrodisiacs.
Increase serotonin levels—”feel good”
hormone
Phenethylamine increases
sex drive
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Spread the Love
Improve your love life?
Woo that special
sweetheart?
Try a dark chocolate
fondue party
Buy that special someone
a box of dark chocolates
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Indulge in Dark
Chocolate
Health benefits
Support a growing global
movement for a good
cause
Add a little more love to
your life
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