Another study has come out demonstrating that the flavanoids in cocoa may are good for your heart. When it comes to chocolate products, the dark variety has the highest concentration of these flavanoids (In fact, the aforementioned study actually used dark chocolate to measure the positive benefits of flavanoids). Milk chocolate has fewer flavanoids, and white chocolate has virtually none.
So what does this mean for chocoholics like myself? Researchers aren't sure, since even dark chocolate is high in fat and sugar, both of which are certainly not good for your heart. So while researchers try to figure this one out and determine what healthy amounts of dark chocolate would actually be, let's hope that the news media doesn't do their usual oversimplified and hyped up reporting, as this would inevitably makes chocolate consumption seem like the next magic bullet when it comes to heart health. Because then we may have to worry about the "dark chocolate diet" becoming the next low carb or low fat fad. Can you imagine?
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