they say it's good for our health, but why?
2006-10-24 17:13:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
When chocolate is made, the bean is crushed, mushed, filtered, extracted, dessicated, to death. Different powders and oils and ingredients are beaten out of it.
There are cocoa oils, cocoa butters, cocoa powders, etc. etc. and the dark chocolate is one of the powder ingredients or a mixture of the powders and oils and butters.
The white part is just the oils and butters.
If you get some type of whitish cream at a drug store, the chances are the " Base " oily buttery ingredient used to mix in the chemicals, is cocoa butter !
Cocoa, or chocolate, has ingredients in it that stimulate parts of the brain - sometimes giving a sense of well being ( sounds like cocaine... whatever ).
The white butter / oils in the bean would contain less of this chemical.
hope this helps
2006-10-24 17:22:18 · answer #1 · answered by cowgurl_bareback 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dark chocolate is real chocolate from cocoa. White chocolate is not chocolate at all...it doesn't really exist so it was made from corn syrup solids and other sugary substances and given the texture of chocolate, but there is no real chocolate in it. What I think you mean in is MILK chocolate, which is light brown in color, not white. The Dark chocolate is purer with antioxidants and several things that are good for you. Milk chocolate is dark chocolate diluted with milk to make it taste better, but it does not have as many health benefits and it has more fat and calories. The best way to go is dark chocolate, then milk and then (fake) white chocolate...but they all taste so good!!!
2006-10-24 17:18:56 · answer #2 · answered by cadodevine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aparantly the nutricional content in dark choclate is much greater than in white chocolate. They doctors often direct clients to eat chocolate if they are having trouble passing foods. Gives some people the runs!!! So apart from eating chocolate to clean out your bowels I dont think any form of chocolate is extremely good for ya. But yes, nutricion wise - stick to the Dark Choc!
2006-10-24 17:18:29 · answer #3 · answered by Tyler E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To begin with "white chocolate" ISN'T chocolate at all- it's some other confection with a similar texture... Dark chocolate has some other ingredient that actually is supposed to be good for you. Check it out!
2006-10-24 17:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white chocolate isnt chocolate at all but just the fat from the process that makes cocoa out of chocolate. the part that has the antioxidants in it is the cocoa, so the darker the chocolate the more concentrated the antioxidants are, the lighter the chocolate is the more fat and sugar and milk it has in it. one ounce a day is the limit though, over that and you are just making yourself fat.
2006-10-24 17:16:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know about the health issue but dark definitely tastes so much better!!
2006-10-24 17:16:41 · answer #6 · answered by grrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because dark chocolate explodes in your mouth
2006-10-24 17:22:02 · answer #7 · answered by Sexy Ray 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white chocolate looks like bat poop
2006-10-24 17:23:36 · answer #8 · answered by Rovot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's pure. Less additives.
2006-10-24 17:15:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anne d 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is more detoxidizers in dark
2006-10-24 17:16:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋