Antioxidant-Rich Delicious Dark Chocolate is Healthy Chocolate!

Where Does Dark Chocolate Come From?

This is a good question because I didn't know this at first. It has a long history and the answers may surprise you!

History

Among the earliest people to discover the health benefits of dark chocolate were the Maya and their predecessors, the Olmec culture, in approximately 1,500 B.C. These ancient peoples in the Americas used the chocolate bean as the main ingredient in a bitter beverage revered for its nourishing qualities and ability to boost energy and stamina. It was also used to treat stomach and intestinal complaints, infections, fever and cough. The Aztec word for the delightsome drink—xocolatl, which means “bitter water”—is what was eventually transformed into the modern English word, “chocolate.”

It was most likely the Spaniards who discovered that mixing the bitter dark chocolate base with sugar and a variety of spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and the like, proved to be more suited for the European palate.

The new, sweeter chocolate concoctions were brought back to the Americans by European settlers. President Thomas Jefferson is said to have remarked, “The superiority of chocolate for health and nourishment will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America that it has in Spain.”

Our love affair with chocolate continues today, though the sweet cocoa confections we enjoy today bear little resemblance to the bitter Mesoamerican brew.

Cocao was first cultivated in South America, but today is primarily a West African crop. The harsh, West African environment of the Ivory Coast, according to MXI Corp, produces the highest ORAC value cacao available today. On average, a cacao tree's shiny leaves reach 20 feet ot the sky. Some 6,000 pink flowers bloom, but just 30 of them bear the yellow or reddish-brown, football-shaped pod that contains cacao beans.

MXI Corp is who makes Xocai Healthy Chocolate. They contract with small, family-owned farms (free from commercial exploitation) in the Ivory Coast for the purchase of cacao for their products.

• Lowers Blood Pressure
• Decreases Complications of Diabetes
• Helps Increase the Health of Pregnant Women
• Increases Energy
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Yes! That is why Xocai Healthy Chocolate has not let WalMart sell their products and wants us (the individual distributors) to share this product so that we can let people know the difference between most dark chocolate and healthy dark chocolate.

Many ingredients are added to chocolate which have a negative impact on our health. Sugar, for example, destroys the immune system, and causes diabetes, premature aging and other serious health complaints. Studies show that adding milk to chocolate cancels out all of the goodness. In addition, researchers have found that commercial chocolate can be contaminated with extremely high quantities of the toxic metal lead.

You may be asking yourself what is left if you can’t have milk chocolate, dark chocolate or any sort of processed chocolate. Fear not, the absolutely delicious raw chocolate is taking the world by storm. You don’t need to avoid chocolate because you can have raw chocolate. Raw chocolate is chocolate that has not gone through any sort of heating or processing, so all of the nutrients (antioxidants) are still in tact.

Xocai Healthy Chocolate does not have caffeine, preservatives, fillers, waxes, refined white sugar, milk fats or trans fats! It is has not been alkalized because excess heat of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit destroys antioxidants or nutrients.

Xocai Healthy Chocolate has been freeze-dried and cold-pressed so it is just like eating a raw fruit or vegetable. Also one daily serving of any Xocai product will have an antioxidant value of at least 9,000. That's equal to 2 pounds of raw spinach or 13 pounds of tomatoes! Always read the label on the products you purchase.

So when you are looking for a healthy chocolate product, look for a dark chocolate product with the following properties:

• Has not been alkalized.
• Has been dried and cool-pressed, rather than roasted.
• Consists of at least 70 percent pure cocoa.
• Contains cocoa butter instead of milk fats or hydrogenated oils.
• Contains natural, low-glycemic sweeteners-such as raw cane-rather then refined sugar.

Where Can I Find This Healthy Dark Chocolate?

You can find this delicious Xocai Healthy Chocolate on my Healthy Chocolate Page, or you can contact me below for more information on this Amazing Rich Belgium Healthy Chocolate packed full of antioxidants.

Yes! Dark chocolate is healthy chocolate! Cacoa powder (dark chocolate) is the highest-rated antioxidant food source-much greater than red wine or green tea. The USDA uses the ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) scale to measure the antioxidant capacities of different foods. Unprocessed cocoa powder is number one and has an ORAC value of 26,000 per 100 grams (3.5 ounces). Number two is Acai Berry with a ORAC value of 18,500 per 100 grams, and they are both in the Xocai Healthy Chocolate along with blueberries and lots of other natural ingredients. What does these numbers mean? See what Dr. Warren has wrote at www.mydrchocolate.com and go to research.

When it comes to choosing antioxidant-rich foods, Dr. Steve Warren (spokesperson for Xocai Healthy Chocolate) says, "Darker is better." Dark fruits like blueberries and acai berries are loaded with antioxidants, as are green, leafy vegetables like spinach. The Chocoalte Manufacturers Association says dark chocolate contains eight times the number of polyphenol antioxidants found in strawberries.

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