If you are a health and wellness follower from way back, you will know that several years ago antioxidants began to emerge as amazing wellness "tools".  A broad spectrum of compounds, there are many antioxidants available in a wide array of foods.  In the beginning, just knowing certain foods had antioxidants made them desirable to the health consious individual.  Then a little later in the game we began to have the ORAC scale, a means by which the total of antioxidants could be measured.  This gave us an idea of of just how many free radicals the antioxidants would presumably sweep out of our bodies.  As time went on and knowledge increased we began to understand the powers of one antioxidant over another.  And emerging as the real powerhouses are catechins and epicatechins.  Without getting into chemistry, (which frankly I couldn't if I wanted to) this is getting down to the nitty gritty of exactly which particles have the power to bind with more free radicals in certain areas of the body such as the brain, heart and vascular system.  And emerging as the powerhouse of epicatechins is chocolate.  Pure, unprocessed chocolate.

So, I've said all that to say this, if you are shopping for chocolate with health benefits look for one that tells you the actual milligrams of epicatechins.  You need presumably, according to research, around 900 mg. of epicatechins daily.  Xocai products will all soon list the mg. of epicatechins. Right now our new cookie aready lists the good news.  Over 1000 mg. as compared to one of the most advertised "healthy" commercial chocolates on the market which has just over 100 mg.

So folks, love your chocolate, but find a chocolate that loves you back!