Just to get us started, I'd like to give a brief overview of what makes one chocolate healthy, and another extremely NOT healthy. The key is in the processing and manufacturing of the chocolate. Starting with the raw cacao beans straight from the trees, the most healthy beans are chosen from the roughest terrain possible. These are packed with antioxidants because they are used to having to fight the elements for their own survival. They should be grown ethically, on small family farms, and dried in the sun. No alkalizing or roasting for hours at high temperatures for an easy and cheap way of taking the bitterness (thus the antioxidants) out of it. Then, after carefully processing, they must be added with only the healthiest ingredients. No refined sugars, no unhealthy fats, no preservatives or artificial sweeteners. So, you may say, "Is it possible to follow these rules and still come up with chocolate you can actually stand to eat?" Well, the answer is, it's not easy. But if you really know and love chocolate, where there's a will there's a way, and patient processing and adding only the best berries, sweeteners and other ingredients, you can come up with not only palatable, but down-right delectable chocolate.
You can learn the story of one lady who has done just that. Visit www.myfitchocolate.com Click the company link to learn about this company and the special lady who developed this chocolate to save her own life, and then had a passion to share it with others.
Now, let me know what you think about healthy chocolate, and lets get some chocolate talk going! 