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Last edited Fri Apr 7, 2023, 09:56 AM - Edit history (5)
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Ocelot II
(130,560 posts)spooky3
(38,635 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)Ocelot II
(130,560 posts)because there's less sugar than in milk chocolate, and there are good nutrients in the chocolate itself. Dark chocolate is rich in disease-fighting antioxidants. It can help reduce blood pressure and lower the risk of heart disease.
debm55
(60,669 posts)True Dough
(26,688 posts)Some is far less healthful...
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/heavy-metals-found-in-popular-brands-of-dark-chocolate
niyad
(132,483 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,723 posts)...is that dark chocolate is significantly higher in cocoa solids.
Cocoa has a lot of flavenols, and those are well-known for having circulatory benefits.
Also, cocoa is reasonably high in fiber. The higher cocoa solids, the higher the fiber content. Fiber is both heart & digestive system friendly.
Milk chocolate tends to have less cocoa powder & more cocoa butter. The butter has nowhere near the nutritional benefits as the powder.
It's the richness of the cocoa that makes it healthier.
debm55
(60,669 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,723 posts)Flavenols exhibit what's called tautomerism. This is a phenomenon where a labeled hydrogen (usually) can flip from spot to spot giving the molecule 2 different functions. (Many amino acids do this.)
These are known to create less bacterial adhesion of bacteria in the urinary track, hence reduced urinary infections.
Also, studies have shown that diets high in flavenols (mostly from fruits & vegetables) inhibit cognitive decline with age.
unweird
(3,297 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(11,713 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,546 posts)Because it doesnt contain cocoa particles. Its just cocoa butter mixed with sugar.
debm55
(60,669 posts)I spent most of my first 14 years in Europe and never knew there was anything other than dark chocolate
napi21
(45,806 posts)ailsagirl
(24,287 posts)its always the dark chocolate because it has more taste than the milk chocolate flavor.
But otherwise, I prefer milk chocolate (as in Milk Duds)
debm55
(60,669 posts)ailsagirl
(24,287 posts)RockRaven
(19,388 posts)So a good milk chocolate might be preferable over a lousy dark chocolate. It depends.
White? GTFOH.
elleng
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White? GTFOH.
DARN, could have picked up bar of dark w orange @ CVS today, but wasn't thinking clearly!
Glorfindel
(10,175 posts)The darker the better.
Tetrachloride
(9,625 posts)also good, depending on the maker.
niyad
(132,483 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)taste of it. Or maybe it was cooking chocolate.
niyad
(132,483 posts)and sugar. I prefer chocolates with cocoa above 72 percent. But each person has their own preference. I am lucky to have locally produced Chocolove bars.
Ocelot II
(130,560 posts)you have to use a lot of sugar. Straight baking chocolate is very bitter, pretty much inedible by itself.
debm55
(60,669 posts)for it.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)For an attack of the munchies
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,953 posts)"White" chocolate is an oxymoron. That's all.
debm55
(60,669 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)When I was in kindergarten, we'd get a milk snack in the middle of the morning, and I always got chocolate milk. Well, one week I decided to be good and ordered white milk, and just hated it.
I don't understand the current hate for things like chocolate milk. Or cow's milk in general.
debm55
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Ocelot II
(130,560 posts)They were straws that flavored milk as you sucked it through them. I remember the strawberry flavored ones which were kind of terrible.

debm55
(60,669 posts)Ocelot II
(130,560 posts)that dissolved in the milk that went through it. It wasn't a powder. If you spat the milk you sucked in back out through a strawberry straw, the milk in your glass would turn pink.
Different Drummer
(9,083 posts)It's always been chocolate milk or no milk for me.
northoftheborder
(7,637 posts)debm55
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Deuxcents
(26,946 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)Deuxcents
(26,946 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)Deuxcents
(26,946 posts)Got 2 new ones in the freezer as I was at the store yesterday!
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)But there are many different flavors of milk chocolate
I like them all but the milk chocolate hersheys uses in their Mr Goodbar is my favorite hands down for a candy you can buy anywhere
I like dark also but I remember reading only a week or two ago that some darks were found to have high levels of lead in them.
We cant have anything nice.
CozyMystery
(732 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,671 posts)Ethel M chocolates - anyone else been to the cactus garden and factory in Las Vegas?
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)Lindt. Gherahilli Tuescher, Val Rohn, I know I'm screwing up the spellings sorry!
Ben & Jerry's NY Super Fudge Chunk, or Chocolate Therapy
Talenti's Dark Chocolate Chip Gelato
And we have a chocolater Jaque Torres who set up shop in the early ?'00s-
wonderful dark chocolates, dark chocolate ice cream, double chocolate chunk cookies with walnuts. Chocolate bark with almonds, pistachios, and hazelnuts.
I always preferred dark chocolate from the first time Hersey's Special Dark came out in those little Halloween candy bar size in the ?early '60s.
I still do love milk chocolate and peanut butter Reese's.
But Trader Joe's introduced their own
"Reese's" type and THEN they made a dark chocolate version about ?5 yrs ago. Yum!
As you can see. I'm crazed about dark chocolate! 😄🥰
However I have cut down bc of lead, cadnium issues 😕
debm55
(60,669 posts)electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)A bunch of brands were listed as unsafe, or less unsafe.
I'm not sure if any one that was tested is totally safe.
Some had high levels of both, others had less of one or the othet. Maybe.
I took screengrabs.
Actually now I remember this was posted here on DU. Almost positive
I will just eat less. Try to cut down by 65 - 75%. Sigh.
Maybe I'll eat vanilla, or butter pecan, and add high quality bittersweet chunks, or nibs in.
Talenti's gelato, or sorbet has a dark chocolate with tiny chocolate pieces. They're very dark chocolatety!
They also make a blackberry version with those same tiny pieces. Not that easy to find at least in my current nabe, but I know at least place in the Bronx where I did get it (where I briefly lived).
Sure more places in Manhattan like While Foods would have it. I'll see.
I may ask my clinic to have least, and cadnium levels tested at least as a baseline. Circumstances have had me eating a lot less chocolate than in the past 35 yrs or so.
debm55
(60,669 posts)Thanks for posting that.
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)tomorrow.
debm55
(60,669 posts)levels of lead and minerals in the dark Hershey's chocolate. Report was from www.pennlive.com
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)GPV
(73,393 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)strawberry flavored chocolate? Vaguely I remember a light pink chocolate cross and bunnies. but that was years ago.
sanatanadharma
(4,089 posts)True story! I retired from a chocolate company.
When I was interviewed for a retail store manager position, I was introduced to the owner of the company.
The owner asked me if I liked chocolate.
I replied, "I can take it or leave it".
Nonetheless I was hired; managed a retail store, became the production manager, then the buyer, plus facilities and equipment management and repair, deliveries, trade shows, catering, more.
I can still take or (usually) leave chocolate, preferably dark.
mopinko
(73,731 posts)1st job after business school. she talked about it often. she loved getting to eat the rejects.
was a loyal mars customer all her life, but i hold a grudge for her. they made her quit when she got ENGAGED. 1940.
MissMillie
(39,656 posts)I refuse to choose.
betsuni
(29,080 posts)tasted really good European chocolate, not that gross American stuff. YES I HAVE. I don't like coffee that much either.
debm55
(60,669 posts)of European chocolate like? Thanks.
lark
(26,081 posts)Belgian chocolates are what I love - light, dark, white - they are just so much better than anything made here that I've found.
Emile
(42,309 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)so yummy
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)a very nice dark choicolate w raspberries. So does Trader Joe's.
debm55
(60,669 posts)electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)area51
(12,694 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,194 posts)Raine
(31,179 posts)and white chocolate though that one I like the least.
Luciferous
(6,586 posts)Skittles
(171,724 posts)and I've had chocolate from all over.......
debm55
(60,669 posts)to look for it. Don't live too, too, far from Hershey. PA. I should be in their market.
Skittles
(171,724 posts)but I will check it out
there's just something unique about Hershey's, I love that stuff
debm55
(60,669 posts)we would take my son to Hershey Park. It's an amusement park, but they have all kinds of edibles made with Hershey's chocolate.
I think the bar was called Symphony.
Kali
(56,829 posts)Tikki
(15,142 posts)nuts and chews if it shows up.
Just like coffee....chocolate tastes oily to me.
Tikki
debm55
(60,669 posts)Tikki
(15,142 posts)which leaves me with not many chocolate choices so I just move on to other candy.
I like any kind of red hots. But I don't eat much candy these days.
Tikki
debm55
(60,669 posts)side for Christmas and Easter. I bought brandied cherry in chocolate. I bit into the chocolate and the it was horrible. But the inside was delicious. So, I bit off the tops, threw it away, drank and ate the brandied cherries and threw the rest away. My bad.
ProfessorGAC
(76,723 posts)While my favorite is the Toblerone bar. But, I hardly ever see them around here.
So, my go-to is Symphony with toffee & almond bits. It's Hershey's premium brand. Profoundly more creamy than regular Hershey bars and a better flavor.
debm55
(60,669 posts)market, though I do live in PA.
sakabatou
(46,154 posts)debm55
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mvd
(65,914 posts)I can eat dark chocolate, however.
LudwigPastorius
(14,738 posts)Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Mr. Goodbar
Baby Ruth
Nestle's Crunch
Butterfinger
I believe these all contain milk chocolate.
I like dark chocolate, but there's too much caffeine in it for me.
debm55
(60,669 posts)intrepidity
(8,582 posts)Your list has all ones I like.
As for See's, Nuts and Chews. But the truffles are great too, ngl.
There's hardly a sweet I wouldn't enjoy.
debm55
(60,669 posts)debm55
(60,669 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)The product is very, very good. As far as I can tell, the company is still using good, fresh ingredients. Yes, it is expensive but so is all good chocolate. I hope the company never outgrows its original intent and recipe.
Since Im a Costco shopper (over 20 years), Ive sampled the boxed chocolates they sell, with mixed results. For awhile their Kirkland-branded Belgian chocolates were divine, then something shifted and we got brand names of Belgian chocolate that were not as good. For candies by the bag
Godiva by the bag isnt as good as Sees in my opinion.
Costco sells Sees gift cards, but not the candy itself. Thats fine with me I am willing to wait to get to a shop in a mall, and pick and choose my own assortment. Mmmmmm.
I am in California. My sis lived a long time in Mass., then NY, and doesnt know Sees, so to a certain extent it is regional.
debm55
(60,669 posts)to sell them as top grade chocolate.
Different Drummer
(9,083 posts)1-Dark
2-Milk
debm55
(60,669 posts)Aisle of Misfit Rabbits.They are all white chocolate. Someone told me it was for people who were allergic to milk or dark. Milk chocolate is my favorite.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,204 posts)It was fascinating. It started with showing what the cacoa tree looks like, the pods etc, to the history of chocolate, the introduction of sugar and later milk, the manufacturing process, etc. Most of the chocolate we eat is blended to produce a certain flavor, so a Hershey bar always tastes like a Hershey bar, but cacoa from different countries tastes different. At the end of the exhibit, of course, they had bars of single source chocolate. Some were fruitier, some nuttier. Wonderful exhibit.
debm55
(60,669 posts)my students there, We had a class on chocolates and then they would take us on a tour. One part of the tour included a room set up like South America, waterfalls real trees. They showed how the chocolate was harvested and made . What I found really interesting is the tapioca as if the cutter is not careful it can be poisonous. If you are ever in Pittsburgh you showed visit. It is beautiful and open year round. They also had a Japanese room with bonsai trees and trees native to Japan. After one visit I got 3 Japanese fire trees.
mopinko
(73,731 posts)i have that bitter gene. love dark coffee, dark chocolate, hoppy beers.
i was the 6th of 7, and had an aunt that would bring a big box of fannie may fruit and nuts when shed visit. that peel was usually the last to go, and i developed a taste.
i thought that was weird, but they tell me its very popular. its their #1 seller for fathers day.
debm55
(60,669 posts)like the stuff in put in fruit cake? Thank you.
mopinko
(73,731 posts)fms is a long strip. but ive had small chunks from other places.
i like candied citrus peel in general. i make a white fudge at xmas that i make my own peel for. im the only one who likes it, but im the cook. usually have clementines so thats what i usually, but lemon is good, too.
yellowdogintexas
(23,696 posts)Milk chocolate tends to give me heartburn, for some reason. Bad heartburn.
I like 60% and higher cacao content; I use 100% cacao for baking unless the recipe calls for a sweetened variety
White chocolate is a nice ingredient to blend into frosting, but I don't like very much to just sit down and eat it.
Years ago I used to bake a White Chocolate Cake which was very similar to an Italian Cream Cake with the white chocolate folded into the batter. (melted and cooled of course)
debm55
(60,669 posts)I was wondering if it was strawberry flavored.