CHOCOLATE AND YOUR HEART HEALTH
Channel: doctorsTmd
Date: 13/12/2022

CHOCOLATE AND YOUR HEART HEALTH.
In the spirit of THE HOLIDAY SEASON, we are looking into the FOOD OF THE GODS.(part 1)
The link between this food and health has been recorded for years.
We are asking 4 questions
1-  What is this food?
2- Where does it come from?
3- What types of this food do we have?
4- Are all the same regarding health benefits?
Chocolate has been consumed for hundreds of years and has played a prominent role in many civilizations including the Maya and the Aztecs. It was taking to Europe by the Spanish explorers.

Chocolate is a product of a long refining process that begins with the fruit of the cacao tree,Theobroma cacao. It takes many steps from cultivating the cacao tree, harvesting the pods, removing the beans fermenting them and drying them.
They then are usually shipped to the factories, they are sorted and roasted, subsequently the beans are cracked and winnowed, then the nibs are grinded and refined, and finally tempered and finally molded in different shapes and forms.
During all this processing regrettably a lot of the flavanols are lost.
Flavanols are the components responsible for the health benefit of chocolate. Like with any other food closer you are to the source healthier it is.
Cocoa nibs, cocoa paste, and dark chocolates with at least 70 % cocoa are the healthiest.
Milk chocolate, white chocolate, candy covered with chocolates are really candy and should be looked as such. No health benefits.
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00: Introduction
00:28 Asking 4 questions
01:30 Cacao throughout history
01:57 How is chocolate made?
02:41 What are different types of chocolates?
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