第1个回答 2010-12-31
Since ages, chocolate is loved by all people due to its special taste. Many experts have noted that chocolates are unhealthy and continuous eating often results in tooth decay. Some medical experts have stated that chocolates contain sugar substances and thus add calories to the body and increase the sugar levels in the blood. But, it has been recently found that chocolates are good for our health as they have a lot of advantages. Chocolates contain antioxidants. Therefore they kill the free radicals and obstruct the oxidization of lipids into our body. The antioxidants are a concentrated form of flavonoids.
The antioxidants help in the anti-ageing process. According to the study if you consume chocolates you are reducing your chance of heart problems. Chocolate is an anti-inflammatory agent too. Chocolate contains cocoa butter to some extent and this helps in regaining the lost elasticity in the body.
Besides these properties, chocolate acts as an interesting medication for depression. The French suggest that you munch a chocolate whenever you feel like eating it. You can really pass your time in a very interesting way and forget all the problems of life when you taste delicious chocolate. So, what are you waiting for, go get your chocolate bar now!
You know chocolate comes from cacao beans. Do you know it has been eaten for centuries? Around 1100 BC Central American Indians were making beer from the pulp of cacao seedpods. The seeds were discarded.
Some 300 years later, according to a National Geographic Website article, "Chocolate Origins Traced to Beer Makers 3,000 Years Ago," beer-makers were using the seeds to make a non-alcoholic drink -- the origin of the cocoa we drink today. "The drink was poured form special pitchers that created high froth in the drinking cups," the article notes.
The Nibble Website has a detailed history of chocolate. From 600 AD -- 1,000 AD the Mayans were farming cacao plantations. In 1570 cocoa, as we now spell it, was used as a medicine and aphrodisiac. By 1674 chocolate was eaten in solid form. The Cabury brothers sold candy at a British exhibition in 1849. The Ghiradelli company began production in 1860.
According to the time line, the "first-known" recipe for brownies appeared in "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book," by Fannie Merritt Farmer, published in 1896. After my mother-in-law died, I received her 1936 version of the cook book. I found the recipe and it contains the same ingredients we use today: eggs, butter, sugar (brown, not white), flour, vanilla, melted chocolate, and walnuts.
In 2000 fusion cuisine found its way to the chocolate industry and extra spices, such as saffron, curry, and lemongrass were added to products. While grocery stores carry thousands of products, including cookies, but no cookies taste as good as home made. Baking squares and chips need to be stored properly for the best baking results.
Improperly stored, the square and chips can "bloom," according to the "Hershey's Chocolate and Cocoa Cookbook." This happens "when condensation forms on the surface of semi-sweet or milk chocolate." When it is stored correctly, chocolate will stay fresh for more than a year. So store it in a cool, cry place at 70 degrees. If it gets really hot, store squares and chips in the refrigerator.
If you bake cookies, you probably bake chocolate chip, but other cookies are equally as good. These Chocolate-Almond Crinkle Cookies are almost candy. Here is the recipe, just in time for summer picnics and barbecues. These cookies are fragile, so pack them carefully if you're bringing them to a picnic. Serve them plain or stick one or two in vanilla ice cream. Yum
The thin secrets of chocolate have been discovered. It's warm weather again and time for wearing less and less clothes! Thin secrets of chocolate can put an end to the stress, in more ways than one! I do love chocolate and with all the information being released about it healthful benefits it all makes sense.
Chocolate is made from plants and that means it contains many benefits of dark vegetables. The benefits of these dark vegetables is antioxidants. Antioxidants protect us from free radicals which causes aging, heart disease and weight gain.
Dark Chocolate contains nearly 8 times the number of antioxidants than strawberries.
Antioxidants do even more;
* Relax Blood Pressure
* Balance Certain Hormones
* Lower Cholesterol
* Improve Sexual Function
The list goes on. Thinking about the few mentioned above which gives you a link to the weight loss function. All the mentioned factors increase the ability of the body to loss weight and keep it off.
The number one thing that makes a diet the worst thing we can think of to do is the horrible way we feel once we start to reduce calories. This makes us miserable.
Thin secrets of chocolate are the light bulb moment you have been waiting for. Chocolate taste good and it gives us a feeling of pleasure. Pleasure is something rarely associated with dieting and yet now it can be. Thin secrets of chocolate are a long list of great things that make it possible for you to take the weight off and keep it off.