I add some turmeric to my cocoa as a chelator for the lead.
yuck.
Posted 13 April 2007 - 04:53 PM
I add some turmeric to my cocoa as a chelator for the lead.
Posted 13 April 2007 - 05:06 PM
I add some turmeric to my cocoa as a chelator for the lead.
That's an interesting idea. Do you have a reference to support the strategy?
Thanks!
I add some turmeric to my cocoa as a chelator for the lead.
yuck.
Posted 13 April 2007 - 06:02 PM
They are the peeled variety. Here is a link to the product.Lucid, are the beans peeled or unpeeled?
ETA: Sunfood sells both types. Looks like the unpeeled version is the whole bean.
Posted 13 April 2007 - 06:35 PM
Thanks for the link.They are the peeled variety. Here is a link to the product.Lucid, are the beans peeled or unpeeled?
ETA: Sunfood sells both types. Looks like the unpeeled version is the whole bean.
http://www.sunfood.c..._id=0878&m=home
Posted 14 April 2007 - 06:35 PM
LA times: News Source
Cocoa's sweet reward
Chocoholics rejoice: Foods rich in cocoa appear to reduce blood pressure, a study finds
By Janet Cromley, Times Staff Writer
April 16, 2007
CHOCOLATE — that traditional antidote for broken hearts — now has another use. Foods rich in cocoa appear to reduce blood pressure, according to researchers at the University Hospital of Cologne in Germany.
Testing the hypothesis that plant compounds known as polyphenols found in cocoa and tea have a beneficial effect on blood pressure, researchers analyzed five studies on cocoa and five studies on tea published between 1966 and 2006.
The report, which appears in the April issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that chocolate lowered systolic blood pressure by about 4.7 points on average and diastolic pressure by about 2.8 points. In short, a healthful daily dose of chocolate could reduce blood pressure of 140/80 to about 135/77.
Curiously, tea did not have a similar effect, possibly because the composition of the polyphenols in tea is slightly different. "It's likely that the phenols specific to cocoa represent the active ingredients," lead author and pharmacologist Dr. Dirk Taubert said in an e-mail. "A possible candidate are the so-called procyanidins, which are a group of complex phenols."
So a little chocolate a day may keep the doctor away? "Regular consumption of polyphenol-rich cocoa products like dark chocolate may be considered part of a blood pressure lowering diet, provided" — here it comes — "that there is no gain in total calorie intake," he says. Natch. There's always a catch.
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Thanks.Great work! I can't imagine how nibs can differ by 50x in their iron content, go get em. I'm still sold on the powder since there is more anti-oxidants in it than in the nibs. The nibs are fun to munch on though.
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Posted 29 April 2007 - 06:47 AM
Earthtimes.org: News Source
WASHINGTON, April 27 Chocolate lovers are fighting a proposed change to U.S. chocolate standards that would allow other fats to replace cocoa butter.
The current Food and Drug Administration standard says chocolate must contain cocoa butter. The proposed change -- listed in a petition supported by the chocolate lobby -- would make it possible to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable fat instead of cocoa butter, The Washington Post said Friday.
The newspaper said the products would still need to contain chocolate liquor.
Critics of the proposed change have started a grassroots letter-writing campaign to the FDA. They say some big chocolate manufacturers support the proposed change because vegetable fat, which contains trans fats, is less expensive than cocoa butter, which does not.
Copyright 2007 by UPI
Posted 29 April 2007 - 11:42 AM
Hmmm...
Earthtimes.org: News Source
WASHINGTON, April 27 Chocolate lovers are fighting a proposed change to U.S. chocolate standards that would allow other fats to replace cocoa butter.
The current Food and Drug Administration standard says chocolate must contain cocoa butter. The proposed change -- listed in a petition supported by the chocolate lobby -- would make it possible to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable fat instead of cocoa butter, The Washington Post said Friday.
The newspaper said the products would still need to contain chocolate liquor.
Critics of the proposed change have started a grassroots letter-writing campaign to the FDA. They say some big chocolate manufacturers support the proposed change because vegetable fat, which contains trans fats, is less expensive than cocoa butter, which does not.
Copyright 2007 by UPI
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Posted 15 May 2007 - 03:59 AM
Jarrow just came out with a new chocolate (cocoa extract) supplement called ChocoMind:
http://jarrow.com/pr....php?prodid=453
Posted 15 May 2007 - 10:25 PM
Jarrow just came out with a new chocolate (cocoa extract) supplement called ChocoMind:
http://jarrow.com/pr....php?prodid=453
This product is standardized for the stimulant theobrine in chocolate, not the flavanoids. It is the flavanoids which produce the benefits
in the original article.
Posted 15 May 2007 - 10:54 PM
Posted 15 May 2007 - 10:57 PM
Jarrow just came out with a new chocolate (cocoa extract) supplement called ChocoMind:
http://jarrow.com/pr....php?prodid=453
This product is standardized for the stimulant theobrine in chocolate, not the flavanoids. It is the flavanoids which produce the benefits
in the original article.
Right, the last thing I need is more stimulants/theobromine. [lol]
I'm holding out for the new, improved cocoa powders with increased flavanoids that should be coming soon (besides CocoVia from Mars, Inc.).....
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