Well, it always seemed too good to be true”chocolate as a health food? Not so fast, reports NPR’s Morning Edition, citing a recent editorial from British health journal the Lancet. Turns out that flavenols, those antioxidants that make dark chocolate so good for us, are also the ingredient that makes dark chocolate taste bitter. So some chocolate manufacturers actually remove the heart-healthy flavenols, leaving a confection that’s full of fat and sugar without any antioxidants to redeem it. Now that’s bitter.
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A good example of how big bad business is making money by taking out good stuff and adding bad. Table salt is another example.
lora bruncke December 27, 2007 | 9:29 pm ESTCorporations are also making more money by reducing the amount of sugar. Go figure that! Nestles reduced chocolate syrup is way more money than the original at my store.
A good way to keep everybody overweight and undernourished in the richest society to ever exist in the history of mankind! No wonder anti-depressants are so prevalent.
Is this an example of corruption?
Is this type of thing not rampant in our capitalistic consumer society?
Who suffers the most? Our children.
Lora