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We ♥ Raw Chocolate
Most of us love chocolate and with good reason! As well as tasting great, it’s full of antioxidants that make us feel uplifted.
Dream though we may, it’s not as simple as popping down to the corner shop and buying yourself a block of milk chocolate. When researchers talk about the many health benefits of chocolate, they are referring to chocolate in it’s raw form, raw cacao.
Although regular cocoa looks similar to raw cacao (and is also spelt in a deceivingly similar way), the process of roasting the regular cocoa at high temperatures reduces it’s enzyme content and lowers the overall nutritional value.
As is the way with many other foods, you are able to retain the highest amounts of nutrients when we eat it in its raw form. The process of cold-pressing unroasted cocoa beans keeps the living enzymes in the cocoa while removing the cocoa butter, and in turn removing all the fat.
Raw cacao is high in antioxidants that help to protect our nervous system and assist in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Antioxidants neutralize toxins, relaxing your blood vessels and in turn, lowers blood pressure.
As well as increasing the levels of your neurotransmitters that help keep our moods up, raw cacao is also full of minerals such as zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, manganese and iron.
Some of our favourite brands are Pana Chocolate and Loving Earth! Go ahead and treat yourself! You’ll find most of these beautiful raw chocolates at your local health food store x
