Healthy Chocolate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11453538/

I saw articles several months ago about dark chocolate being good for you. Now Mars Inc. is coming out with a new candy bar to capitalize on it. It sounds like a good idea to me. I like chocolate, and have been choosing dark chocolate over milk chocolate since reading those first articles. Dove dark chocolate is one of the best, I think (I just like how it tastes). I bet this new candy bar is going to come with a higher price tag though, because it's supposed to be healthy. I just hope that everyone doesn't just start charging more for dark chocolate because people will pay it. There's nothing special about the new candy bar as far as I can tell, other than it's dark chocolate.

It all comes down to that dark chocolate has more flavanols, which have antioxidant properties, than milk chocolate does, because milk chocolate has more sugar and less cocoa, so it dark chocolate is more concentrated. Also, antioxidants are good for you (but they are also in fruits and vegetables - it's not like chocolate is the only source), but sugar is still bad for you. So if you are going to eat chocolate, because you like chocolate, it may as well be dark chocolate. Too much of it (including dark chocolate) is still bad for you. It's still candy, not health food.