At the Chocolate Appreciation Workshop, chocolatier Benjamin Pedro revealed surprising facts about chocolates. The Heavenly Chocolates Shop was filled with ohhh's and ahhh's by the chocoholic participants, as if they found the path to enlightenment.Here's what your mama didn't tell you about chocolates:
1. Chocolates are high in anti-oxidants that fight free radicals responsible for looking old and ugly (e.g. skin impurities, wrinkles, cell damage)
2. A bar of chocolate has less sugar than a can of coke.
3. Cocoa butter does not contribute to high levels of cholesterol.
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Be beautiful like the gods who enjoyed "cocoa", meaning food of the gods.
4. Chocolate has less caffeine than chocolates (high levels of caffeine triggers acne for some people).
5. The higher the cocoa content, the less sugar there is in your chocolate.
6. White chocolate is NOT CHOCOLATE, it is made of just cocoa butter. Darker chocolates have real beneficial cocoa.
Chocolate can be enjoyed as a drink or in solid state like chocolate bars or chips. Real chocolate is made of cocoa mass and cocoa butter. There are chocolates on the market that contain vegetable fat to replace cocoa butter, avoid that or you'll reap the fattening effects of vegetable FAT.
After the workshop, I recommend Swiss chocolate as the best for their traditional and intricate process of chocolate making.
To reap the beauty benefits of chocolate, discern well if the bar you are holding is made of REAL chocolate, opt for chocolates with single origins. This type has at least 64% cocoa packed with all the chocolate-y benefits.
Heavenly Chocolates is the home of single origin chocolates like Peru, Ghana, Madagascar (my favorite), Ivory Coast, etc. Learn more and experience beauty by chocolates, visit Heavenly Chocolates at Roces Centre, 127 Roces Avenue, Quezon City.
2. A bar of chocolate has less sugar than a can of coke.
3. Cocoa butter does not contribute to high levels of cholesterol.
READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP....
Be beautiful like the gods who enjoyed "cocoa", meaning food of the gods.5. The higher the cocoa content, the less sugar there is in your chocolate.
6. White chocolate is NOT CHOCOLATE, it is made of just cocoa butter. Darker chocolates have real beneficial cocoa.
Chocolate can be enjoyed as a drink or in solid state like chocolate bars or chips. Real chocolate is made of cocoa mass and cocoa butter. There are chocolates on the market that contain vegetable fat to replace cocoa butter, avoid that or you'll reap the fattening effects of vegetable FAT.
After the workshop, I recommend Swiss chocolate as the best for their traditional and intricate process of chocolate making.
To reap the beauty benefits of chocolate, discern well if the bar you are holding is made of REAL chocolate, opt for chocolates with single origins. This type has at least 64% cocoa packed with all the chocolate-y benefits.
Heavenly Chocolates is the home of single origin chocolates like Peru, Ghana, Madagascar (my favorite), Ivory Coast, etc. Learn more and experience beauty by chocolates, visit Heavenly Chocolates at Roces Centre, 127 Roces Avenue, Quezon City.
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