Chocolate is not only good-looking and delicious but also can help you whiten and remove wrinkles and accelerate weight loss. At the same time, chocolate can also make you energetic and work efficiently. Don't you think it's incredible that a small piece of chocolate has so many benefits? However, this is only the tip of the iceberg of the benefits of chocolate.
01Skin care, weight loss, refreshing, chocolate is all good
1. Whitening and beautifying, improve skin elasticity
There are a lot of antioxidants contained in chocolate, especially flavanols. Researchers have found that eating 20g of dark chocolate containing flavanols a day can reduce skin problems caused by ultraviolet radiation by 15%-25%.
At the same time, scientists also discovered that high-purity cocoa products could effectively promote skin metabolism and reduce fine lines.
In 2016, researchers from Seoul University in South Korea found through a 24-week test: Women aged 43-86, taking 4g of pure cocoa powder (about 320mg of flavanols) a day can increase skin elasticity by 8.7% reduce eye wrinkles. Grow.
Studies have also shown that the flavanols in chocolate can increase collagen content (1, 3, 4) and effectively repair acne marks, closed mouth, and other skin problems. Therefore, instead of spending a lot of silver on buying collagen to eat, it is better to have a piece of chocolate.
2. Lose weight, get rid of meat bye bye
Many people dare not eat chocolate because they are afraid of getting fat and worry that the fat in chocolate will turn into unsightly fat.
But you don't have to worry so much! Because chocolate not only won't make you fat, it can also help you lose weight and let you get rid of the meat quickly. This is scientifically based!
Dr. Willie Kraul from the United States found in his research that eating a piece of high-purity dark chocolate 20 minutes before a meal and 5 minutes after dinner can reduce appetite by up to 50%.
Chocolate contains a lot of healthy fats. These healthy fats can significantly increase the feeling of fullness, greatly reduce your desire to eat snacks, and will not allow you to eat junk foods such as milk tea, puffs, cakes, potato chips, and help lose weight.
In addition, every 100g of dark chocolate also contains 11g of dietary fiber, which can meet nearly half of adults' daily dietary fiber needs. These nutritional fibers can prevent you from overeating and reduce hunger. Moreover, it can also clear the stool! Treat constipation!
3. Refreshing and refreshing, work efficiency is bursting
In addition to people who want to help your skincare, help you lose weight, and give you chocolate, they also want to keep you energized at all times.
This is because the theobromine in chocolate can increase heart rate, keep people excited, concentrate more, improve the brain's ability to process information, and naturally increase work efficiency.
Moreover, according to research, theobromine is much less irritating to the human body than the caffeine in coffee.
So eating chocolate is refreshing, unlike coffee that will cause insomnia at night. In contrast, a 5587-participant trial found that theobromine makes you sleep more peacefully at night.
4. Avoid sudden death
The antioxidant properties of cocoa beans and chocolate even surpass the super antioxidant fruit: blueberries.
Cocoa beans contain polyphenols, catechins, flavonols, and other antioxidants. In experiments, scientists compared Acai berries, blueberries, cranberries, pomegranates, cocoa, these super antioxidant foods, and found that cocoa has antioxidant properties. In addition, the oxidation capacity is far better than other berries.
In 2011, a research report published in the British Medical Journal showed that eating more chocolate can reduce the incidence of heart disease by 37%, and it can also reduce the incidence of stroke by 29%.
In addition, a large number of studies have shown that cocoa beans and chocolate can lower blood pressure, prevent atherosclerosis, and even improve insulin sensitivity.
So how should everyone choose chocolate?
02Black, white, sandwich, which one to buy?
The chocolate on the market can be roughly divided into dark chocolate, milk chocolate, filled chocolate, and white chocolate.
Among these chocolates, dark chocolate with a cocoa content> 70% is the most helpful to the human body. In addition, dark chocolate contains flavonols and other antioxidants, which are much higher than different types of chocolate.
However, dark chocolate with a high cocoa content usually has a bitter taste, and its taste is difficult to accept by the public who love sweets. Therefore, to increase sales and reduce costs, chocolate manufacturers will reduce the cocoa content in the chocolate and add milk and sugar during the production of chocolate to neutralize the bitterness of chocolate and allow more people to accept chocolate.
Milk and sugar do make chocolate silky and sweet, but at the same time, it also makes you consume too much sugar. This makes chocolate, which has initially been good for health, turned into "junk food" harmful to human health.
What's more, use cheaper cocoa butter substitutes to replace cocoa butter. Cocoa butter substitutes usually contain trans fatty acids. Buying this kind of chocolate is not only not good for your heart, but it will also harm your heart.
Sweetened chocolate is not a portion of healthy food.
What about white chocolate?
Compared with the several dark chocolates mentioned above, sweet and silky white chocolates have emerged in recent years. Their highly high value has quickly captured the hearts of many people.
However, white chocolate is not strictly chocolate at all.
This is because, in white chocolate, there is no essential ingredient for chocolate: cocoa mass.
The main ingredients of white chocolate are 20% cocoa butter, 14% milk (partly milk powder), 55% sugar, and vanilla. Among these ingredients, theobromine and flavanols are not beneficial to the human body.
Therefore, when choosing chocolate, avoid the sandwich chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate that can cause obesity, and choose dark chocolate with low sugar content.
After you buy the chocolate, store it in a cool and dry place as much as possible. It is not recommended to put it in the refrigerator because the taste will become hard. But if the temperature in the home where you live is greater than 36°C, put it in the fridge honestly.
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