{"id":632,"date":"2013-06-30T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=632"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:51:58","slug":"do-not-eat-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Don’t eat chocolate!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

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It was curiously overheard the other day:
Don\u2019t eat chocolate!<\/a>
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Why eat chocolate when there are so many alternatives
A few interesting and more healthy alternatives to chocolate<\/strong><\/a>

By Coco <\/a>\u00b7 France<\/em><\/a>
Vegetables, especially green vegetables provide excellent nourishment, vitamins and micronutrients
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By Xocolatl <\/a> \u00b7 Mexico<\/em><\/a>
Whilst potatoes have a very pretty flower, they contain significant amounts of starch so should be avoided unless a high calorie intake is required.
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By Schokolade <\/a> \u00b7 Deutschland<\/em><\/a>
Fruits are considered to be an excellent food source containing many vitamins and importantly necessary sugars.
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We must however remember that, as with the potato, whilst the lemon tree very pretty and lemon flower is sweet the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat despite the obvious benefits that, as a fruit, it brings to the body.
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[Don\u2019t forget the durian – colour yellow, as big as a football, thick prickly peel, rich flesh-coloured yellow, sticky, juicy, sweet like eating warm melted ice cream. It is a first-class smelly fruit, like the foul smell of beef. There are big white pieces of meaty flesh in each pod \u2013 five to fourteen \u2013 which is said very sweet and delicious, even the child may have it  fried. Its flavour is such as Li (untranslatable).]
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Truffles as the currency of the new economy<\/strong><\/a>
By Chocolat <\/a>\u00b7 Fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/a>
It is well known that truffles provide absolutely have no nutritional value, nevertheless they command such a high premium both for the ability to absorb flavours in some varieties and in others provide sweet and pungent aromas and tastes of their own in a wide range of culinary dishes. Indeed the esteem which they command has led to the consideration that in the new economy gripping southern Europe, the varieties grown in Greece being especially favoured, they could become the currency of choice to replace the euro.
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Chocoholicism and the Federation<\/strong><\/a>
By Choco <\/a>\u00b7 USoA<\/em><\/a>
Enough! Everyone knows that addiction to chocolate is no bar to enjoying good food and life. Why I spend an inordinate amount of time, though probably far less than they do in actual preparation, thinking about the wonderful array of victuals one could produce using the items mentioned by, should I say by my colleagues, above but then I reconsider. Should I spend time doing that, or simply enjoy what helps you work, rest and play? The conclusion is obvious.
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Truffles<\/strong><\/a>
By PureChocolate <\/a>\u00b7 NR<\/em><\/a>
Truffles may be being cited as the new global currency, but if there is one reason why one should not eat chocolate, and there is only one, it is that truffles are available. Of course these are not that variety of fungus found by pigs in the roots of trees, but those that have been carefully and lovingly prepared from the roasted, cured and fermented beans of the cacao plant. These beans are the very \u03b8\u03b5\u03bf\u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03b1 as my Greek friend should know, which are full of the most nutritious (Cocoa solids contain alkaloids such as theobromine, phenethylamine and caffeine. These have physiological effects on the body and are linked to serotonin levels in the brain. Some research found that chocolate, eaten in moderation, can lower blood pressure and eaten in therapeutic doses will reduce stress and enhance pleasure) content that ever the world knew.

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