The American Botanical Council’s HerbClipTM service recently provided a summary of a paper entitled Cocoa & human health.
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An abomination! Mixing chocolate with agar to reduce fat
Apparently food chemists have found how to replace a significant amount of natural cacao fat with various liquids like fruit juice or alcohol, if a special emulsion is created using agar.
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In April 2010 I wrote about Green & Black’s dark chocolate now having milk declared as an ingredient. Not long after that I received an email from Craig Sams, President of Green & Black’s discussing this issue.
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The ABC is reporting on a study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which seems to show that depressed people eat more chocolate. This is interesting due to the much discussed – but often poorly studied – link between mood and chocolate. However more detailed conclusions are not yet possible from this study.
Continue reading “Study: Depressed people eat more chocolate”The downfall of Green & Black’s chocolate
I recently heard from a friend that Green & Black’s chocolate, once a company offering fine quality milk and dark chocolate, has started putting milk products in all of its range, even its dark chocolate. Today I had a look at the range on the shelf of a local store and sure enough, even their dark 85% block had milk products listed as ingredients.
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