Madison McGhee

BRIEFING Dark Chocolate Vs. Milk Chocolate

What are the pros and cons of both dark chocolate and milk chocolate. Which will you choose?

What is Chocolate? Chocolate contains over 300 chemicals. Chocolate is a stimulate. (Haines). Chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, off a tree. Once the beans are removed from the trees they are dried and

and all the sweet things are added into it, it loses nutritional value. When the cocoa beans are roasted, fermented, and processed the chocolates loses its natural antioxidants.

then turned into chocolate liquor. Which will you choose? You want The chocolate liquor is mixed with to make sure you are consuming Dark chocolate keeps you happy and cocoa butter and sugar. Chocolate chocolate in moderation and healthy has chemicals that produce choosing dark chocolate verities that happiness. This chemical blocks out depression contain at least 65% cocoa. (Food Fight) You and pain. should replace the sweets that you may normally eat with a dark chocolate. The more antioxidants What is in Dark Chocolate? in your chocolate the better for you it will be. Dark chocolate is a potent antioxidant. (DeNoon) Hersheys corporation is working on creating When you are falling in love your brain produces more natural chocolate with more antioxidants. a chemical called phenyl ethylamine (PEA). Dark Dark chocolate or chocolate nibs are a better chocolate contains PEA, so when you eat dark option when choosing your chocolate. chocolate you feel happy. (6 Health Benefits) This chemical is why dark chocolate is known to help with depression and anxiety. Chocolate is made Final Recommendation up of chemicals that brains already produce, that Dark chocolate is the chocolate you should makes us happy and makes us feel good. When the choose. Dark chocolate has chemicals that make chocolate is eaten the chemicals you happy and healthy. Dark stay in the body longer. All Dark Chocolate, a health food? chocolate that is 65% or over is the antioxidants and chemicals good for you and will keep you in chocolate help prevent things Dark chocolate is high in healthy. Milk chocolate does like strokes, heart attacks, and antioxidants, unlike milk chocolate not have the chemicals and depression. Chocolate contains that does not have antioxidants due antioxidants that dark chocolate potassium, iron, magnesium, to the manufacturing does. Milk chocolate is not and copper. processing.(Goodyer) The healthy, because of all the milk, antioxidants are called flavanols sugar, and creamer added to it. which increase blood flow. Dark Dark chocolate will keep you Why Is Milk Chocolate chocolate is also know to prevent happy and healthy! Unhealthy? heart problems and blood clots.( Milk chocolate is unhealthy Goodyer) because it does not have as much of the cocoa bean in it. Milk chocolate contains milk, sugar, and cream. (Food Fight). When milk chocolate is made
Should I Eat That? Project, HTHI Fall 2013

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Works Cited
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Should I Eat That? Project, HTHI Fall 2013