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Chocolate in the News
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Objectives
• Discuss the different types of chocolate• Discuss potential health benefits of
chocolate• Discuss potential concerns of eating
chocolate • Evaluate how chocolate can fit into a
healthy diet.
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What Is Chocolate?
• Chocolate is made from the ground seeds of the cacao tree.
• Used for thousands of years
• First made into drinks, today made into food as well
• One of the most popular flavors in the world
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Where Does Chocolate Come From?
Cacao Tree with ripe fruit
Inside the fruit are the cocoa beans
Dried cocoa beans
Cocoa powder
Cocoa liquor
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Dark Chocolate vs. Milk ChocolateWhat’s the Difference?
• Dark Chocolate—tastes semisweet• Cocoa liqueur, cocoa butter, sugar,
sometimes vanilla, no milk
• Milk Chocolate—tastes sweet• Milk, less cocoa liqueur, cocoa butter, sugar,
vanilla
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What About Other Types of Chocolate?
• White Chocolate- made from some of the same ingredients
• Sugar, cocoa butter, milk, sometimes lecithin, sometimes vanilla, no chocolate liquor or cocoa powder
• With no cocoa liquor is it not technically considered chocolate
• For Cooking• Semisweet Chocolate• Bittersweet Chocolate
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What Are Flavonoids and Flavonols?
• Flavonoids are a type of polyphenols
• More than 4,000 different flavonoids exist
• Naturally found in many different plant foods
• They provide certain health benefits- many act as antioxidants
• Flavonols are one type of flavonoid.
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Potential Health Benefits of Chocolate
• Flavonoids decrease blood pressure in people with hypertension
• Flavonols decrease LDL “bad” cholesterol and increase HDL “good” cholesterol
• Dark chocolate consumption linked to improvement in insulin sensitivity
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Potential Health Benefits of Chocolate
• Keeps blood platelets from clumping together
• Increases blood vessel flexibility
• Consuming antioxidant rich foods like chocolate decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease
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Isn’t Chocolate High in Fat?
• Fat comes from the cocoa butter and is made of both saturated and unsaturated fat
• The saturated fat can have a negative health impact
• The unsaturated fat is a heart-healthy fat also found in olive oil- still high in calories
• Moderation is the key
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How Much Chocolate?
• Dark chocolate is recommended because it has more of the heart healthy flavonols and flavonoids than milk chocolate.
• To receive the health benefits of chocolate, some studies have found you would need to eat about 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day.
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Recent News
• New study found only 6 grams of dark chocolate necessary to show positive results
• About 1 and ½ Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Kisses (30 calories, 2 grams of fat, 4 grams of sugar)
• Decreased blood pressure in middle-aged men and women with slightly high blood pressure
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Ongoing Studies
• How much chocolate should be eaten
• How to keep high levels of flavonoids without affecting the taste
• Chocolate and aging
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What Adds Calories?
• In the chocolate making- sugar, milk, added fat• In chocolate bars
– Caramel
– Peanut butter
– Nuts
– Marshmallow
– Added fat and sugar
– Eggs
– Milk
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Watch The Label!
• Look for total calories, total fat, sodium (especially if you need to watch your blood pressure), and sugar (if you’re diabetic)
• Look at the serving size• Example: Dove Dark Chocolate
Bar (1 oz)
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Reading the Label
←Serving Size
←Calories
←Total Fat
← Sodium
←Total Carbohydrate
(sugar)
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Chocolate Choices!•Different chocolate products yield different amounts of fat, sugar and calories.•Choose your chocolate carefully!
Chocolate (1 oz) Calories Fat (g)
Sugar (g)
Dove Dark Chocolate Bar
144 9 17
Snickers bar 135 7 17
York Peppermint Pattie 101 1.8 22
Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bar
142 8 17
Hershey’s Dark Chocolate bar
124 8 17
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A Healthy Diet ~Balance, variety and
moderation~
• Chocolate can be part of a healthy diet• But, chocolate is not the answer to our
health problems and over-consumption might lead to problems such as excess calories and fat.
• Moderation is the key!
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References(for lesson plan developed by Gail M. Hanula, EdS, RD, LD, Extension Nutrition Specialist, 7/06.
Edited by Isabel Guenther, EFNEP Volunteer, 7/06)
• The Heart-Health Benefits of Chocolate Unveiled; Heart and Vascular Institute; Clevland Clinic; http://www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/guide/prevention/nutrition/chocolate.htm
• How Chocolate Works; How Stuff Works; http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/chocolate.htm
• Nutritiondata.com• American Heart Association• Environmental Nutrition• Consumer Health Journal