Chocolate as a Health Food?
Besides satisfying cravings and tasting delicious, chocolate may have healthful benefits.

Cocoa is one of natures leading sources of Flavonoids. Dark chocolate contains more flavonoids than most other food—including green tea, black tea, red wine, and blueberries.

Flavonoids serve as a potent antioxidant in the ongoing war that is waged inside our bodies; antioxidants represent our front line of defense against major health conditions such as heart disease, cancer and macular degeneration.

Chocolate also has been associated with mood elevation. To test the theory that chocolate enhances mood, a study was conducted at the University of Pennsylvania. The results suggest that it is not some secret chemical ingredient in chocolate that provides the euphoria, but the sensory experience...the taste, the smoothness and the aroma. Perhaps the mood-enhancing chemicals are just the "icing on the cake."

But while there may be some healthful positives to chocolate, it also is a confection containing both sugar and cocoa butter. Cocoa butter consists of 34% monounsaturated, 3% polyunsaturated, and 60% saturated fats. Of the saturated fats, 60% is a stearic fatty acid a saturate found NOT to have any affect on cholesterol levels.
Adora disks, however, only weigh .25 ounces and contributes only 30 calories to your daily dietary in-take, a fairly insignificant source of nutrition to any diet. So, think of Adora as a good way to assure that you will get you daily requirements of Calcium and Vitamin D. Adora takes this important supplementation from a daily chore to a daily pleasure!

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