Cacao beans are great healthy food for that brain

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Cacao Beans Are Great Healthy food For That Brain

Wait, you mean chocolate, right? Hurray! I have been searching for a reason hitting that vending machine and

grab a bag of chips...it's chocolate inside it, now that it is healthy, right?

WRONG. Well, mostly wrong: what's healthy is the cacao bean, minimally processed. This amazing, hedonistic

bean is one of the world's longest-revered

natural food

(think 'time from the Aztecs' old) and it has recently been

proven to become a veritable powerhouse of cognitive enhancement, mood and bliss-enhancement (thanks simply

to the Theobromine in cacao), antioxidants, flavonoids, catechins and several other brain & body-enhancing

elements. In fact, chocolate continues to be very recently cited by some top health professionals and researchers to

be THE single most exciting health food, so that as more research continues to pour in, the more true this seems to

be. And that we discussed the health advantages of chocolate (and walnuts) in our BrainReady Blog feature

recently.

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How's this possible, something that only recently was thought of as a poor, dangerous, guilty indulgence...a sign

of dietary decadence, now being hailed as good for everything from brain health to skin elasticity to

cardiovascular health to anti-cancer and pretty much everything between? It's simple: chocolate doesn't equal

cacao bean, nor vice-versa; most candy and chocolate bars contain not only low levels of cacao bean compared to

other unhealthy ingredients such as sugars, milk fat, artificial flavorings and so on, but the quality and processing

of the cacao used in these items is usually of low health benefits because of from alkalization (e.g. \"Dutch process

cocoa\") to refining and processing and over-roasting the

heath food stores

elements out of the beans.

So if you would like the real stuff, the best bet is to either use 100% organic foods from non-alkalized cocoa

powder from a high-quality maker who minimally processes the cocoa to ensure that the health properties are

retained, or, second best, choose only high cacao percentage dark chocolate bars (typically a minimum of 75%

cacao content or higher, but we recommend 85% or higher), also from a high-quality provider.