Sustainability: a concept once only contemplated by hardcore conservationists, green practices are becoming more and more mainstream. Though chocolate is a timeless dessert, manufacturers of the beloved sweet are modernizing and hopping on board the trend towards more environmentally conscious… Read More
Archive for the ‘Chocolate’ Category
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Thin Models: They Make Us Want to Eat Chocolate Even More
Chocolate advertisements: they’re pretty effective at making us salivate, with images of creamy, liquid chocolate and rich nuggets tempting us to make a purchase. A recently released study published in Appetite reveals a marketing technique that causes consumers to be… Read More
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Chocolate: So Good it Belongs in a Museum
The cocoa nut and the chocolate it produces is a versatile plant and food source: it’s been used as currency, in liquid form as an offering to the gods, and as the food that represents love, dominating Valentine’s Day sales…. Read More
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How Do You Take Your Chocolate?
The way people take their chocolate is much like the way they take their coffee: pure but slightly bitter, sweet, or with a touch of milk. But how can candy companies measure exactly how consumers want their chocolate to taste?… Read More
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Get Smart – Eat Chocolate, Win a Nobel Prize: Baltimore Candy Company
When Nobel Prizes were being issued this past October, Dr. Franz H. Messerli, a cardiologist at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, ventured to suggest that eating chocolate correlates with becoming a laureate. In a note printed in the… Read More
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Choosing Healthy Chocolate
We’ve been taking some time out lately on the blog to pay homage to the beneficial, disease blasting aspects of one of the candies we love best: chocolate. Thanks to the plethora of current research being conducted on the advantages… Read More
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Magic Beans: How Cocoa Improves Cardiovascular Health
Cocoa beans processed into cocoa solids could give the “magic” beans in Jack and the Beanstalk a run for their money with their antioxidant power that can help fight high blood pressure, heart disease, arterial plaque, cancer, and stroke. Dark… Read More
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Chocoholics Rejoice: Why Chocolate is Good for Your Health
We reach for chocolate as a temporary remedy for heartache and emotional headaches, but as it turns out, dark chocolate is proven to be a cure for potentially long-term health issues as well. Cacao – the main ingredient in dark… Read More