Cacao is a Super Food! A SUPER FOOD!

“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

Beans
Powder
Butter
Nibs
Paste

Cacao (chocolate) is one of the most delicious and healthy super foods that exist.  It is beneficial with PMS symptoms, good for metabolizing glucose, keeping the heart healthy, easing depression and it also helps as a delivery agent for many other super-foods like mushrooms, goji berries and spirulina.  In addition to supporting cardiac health and lifting moods, cacao is well-known to east symptoms of PMS, enhance glucose metabolism and may even help prevent colon cancer.

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz.

In it’s most natural form cacao is a seed.  Everything chocolate comes from a seed and is called cocoa beans.  Chocolate does not have sugar or dairy not unless you add it.  If you want a delicious, high energy weight loss food; chocolate is your bean!

What is in chocolate and what it does

Magnesium – #1 source of
heart, brain, muscle cramping, elimination, alkaline, bone strength
Iron
blood
Chromium
balances blood sugar

Copper
blood, immunity
Manganese
blood

Vitamin C
Zinc
immunity, liver, pancreas, skin
 

Omega-6 Fatty Acids
(healthy unless chocolate is cooked…then it is a trans fat)
Phenylethlamine
focus, alertness, appetite suppressant
Anandamide
endorphin (same as what is released after exercising)
Tryptophan
mood enhancing,
Seratonin
stress defense (feel good)
Fiber
elimination
Methylxantines
antibacterial, cardiovascular
Oxalic Acid
(when cooked is bad for the kidneys)
 

There are also many good reasons to eat chocolate only when raw.  The oxalic acid and omega 6 fatty acids become problematic (trans fat and oxalates).  There are a lot of delicious ways to use raw cacao.  You can buy nibs, powder and cacao butter.  One of the special qualities cacao has for is to hide the flavor of foods that don’t taste so great.  You can eat spirulina with cacao and never even taste it.