Cocoa Flavanol Bring Even More Cardiovascular Benefits ...

? Ed Engoron, Co-Founder of Choclatique
Author of Ed Engoron?s Choclatique, Running Press, 2011

There is so much more to learn about the food of the gods?CHOCOLATE. Some of the largest chocolate companies (Mars, Hershey, Nestle, Kraft) are working with independent researchers, private laboratories, universities and the USDA to unlock even more of the secrets of cacao.

According to Mars, Inc.?s recent study of the health benefits of cocoa, we have now learned that cocoa flavanols? cardiovascular benefits might be independent of any antioxidant properties. Absorption and metabolism play a significant role in how flavanols provide circulatory and cardiovascular benefits, while earlier research suggested flavanols exerted their benefits through an antioxidant mechanism.

¹This chocolate supplier?s study shows the extensive metabolism of epicatechin following consumption of a flavanol-containing cocoa drink. The company says that because in vitro studies using un-metabolized cocoa flavanols do not consider metabolism, they are not able to accurately reflect what is happening in the body.

Dr. Hagen Schroeter (University of California at Davis), the study?s author and director of fundamental health and nutrition research for Mars, explains: ?The study provides a critical step towards a more complete understanding of flavanols and their benefits and, ultimately, towards the translation of this knowledge into innovative flavanol-rich food products and concrete health recommendations.?

Much of these benefits can be derived from a cup of Choclatique chocolate a day. Choclatique makes 3 award-winning Chocolate Drinking Mixes?Dark Chocolate, Cinnamon Chocolate and Peanut Butter Swirl. Each are blends of our select crushed dark chocolate and select cocoa powders for preparing rich, hot (and cold) chocolate beverages. Simply add your favorite Chocolate Drinking Mix to cold milk, whisk and heat for a steamy, cold-weather chocolate treat for a totally sinful chocolaty indulgence.

¹The research has been published in the international journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine and at http://www.sciencedirect.com.

Chocolate Doctor

Tags: Antioxidants, Cardiovascular Health, Chocolate Research, Dark Chocolate, drinking chocolate, flavanols

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