Core Tip: chocolate activation of the role of proteolytic enzymes in the gastric juice can help digestion. Dark chocolate can improve the body's antioxidant levels, thus contributing to the prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Xiaobian give below details of the dark chocolate.

Cologne, Germany, University Hospital researchers in 44 volunteers experiment. These volunteers, aged 56 to 73-year-old German adults, health or normal body weight, but high blood pressure.

Buck - 6 grams per day

Volunteers at the beginning of the experiment, blood pressure average is about 86 mm Hg / 147 mm Hg. Since then, some volunteers ate only 6 grams of dark chocolate - Germany "campaign row block" brand chocolate a board divided into 16 small pieces, they only eat a small piece. Other volunteers as a control group, eat the same number of white chocolate.

Ate after 18 weeks, researchers found that consumption of dark chocolate group, systolic blood pressure an average of nearly 3 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure an average of nearly 2 mm Hg, and blood pressure did not change eating white chocolate group.

Take care - 30 calories a day

People doubt one of the dark chocolate to lower blood pressure, that is, it contains cocoa ingredients with high-calorie, easily lead to obesity. To this end, the research team only volunteers per day to eat dark chocolate with 30 calories. The end of the experiment, the consumption of dark chocolate group, decreased blood pressure, but the weight did not increase.

Prior studies have shown that cocoa contains flavanols in dark chocolate ingredients, has a blood thinning effect similar to aspirin. Many vegetables, green tea and red wine contain this substance, it can increase nitric oxide in the blood, improve blood vessel function.

How to do dark chocolate

The cocoa bean fermentation, and then to ground into a paste into chocolate liquor. Squeeze from the chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, the remaining powder is cocoa powder. Cocoa butter and cocoa powder or chocolate liquor plus sugar and dark chocolate can be made. Cocoa powder to give a taste of the chocolate flavor of the cocoa butter to provide a silky texture. When cocoa butter to achieve a certain structure, made of chocolate appearance, texture and taste.

Dark chocolate the containing cocoa

Europe and the U.S. FDA standards, dark chocolate cocoa content should not be less than 35%, Europe also provides 18% of cocoa butter. Our latest regulations only dark chocolate, cocoa butter content should not be less than 18%. In fact, the cocoa content dark chocolate 50% will inevitably become too sweet, the best cocoa content between about 55-75% cocoa content of 75-85% belong to a special bitter chocolate.

Cocoa butter and on behalf of cocoa butter, the difference between

Contains hard-fatty acids in the natural cocoa butter, be able to lowering blood pressure, beneficial to the body; on behalf of cocoa butter is an animal protein fats and oils, vegetable fats and oils, and cocoa powder mixed fats, high cholesterol, can not easily be absorbed in the intestine, more likely to make you fat . In addition the natural cocoa butter per ton of about 30,000 yuan, and substituting cocoa butter per ton of 6000 to 1.5 million dollars.

Anti-aging

Because dark chocolate has a strong anti-oxidation, thus preventing the rapid aging of the human body, experiments show that often amount to eat dark chocolate elderly life than not eat dark chocolate, a team leader.

Other advantages

(1) improve the life of optimism

Eat dark chocolate, to give people feelings of pleasure, which in a larger sense, to reduce the occurrence of more disease.

Late pregnancy, eating, and will give birth to a clever and lively baby.

The baby was born in late pregnancy, the appropriate eat some dark chocolate, significantly more than the mother does not eat the dark chocolate to a cheerful, lively.