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Author :: Delmar Germyn  |
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| Article Title :: Homemade Chocolates - Fun to Make! |
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| Homemade chocolates can be fun to make. With microwaves in almost every home now, the art of melting chocolate wafers without burning them has been perfected. Adding fruit essences to the melted ooey-gooey-ness personalizes them, then pouring your creation into shallow molds with different details appropriate for the season, be it winter, Christmas or other festive practices.Now I agree with a lot of you and have to wonder, why make chocolates when you can go out and buy a box and even get it WRAPPED for no extra cost?! It is so much easier and less time consuming! If those are your thoughts, then making chocolates may not be for you, but I know it is something everyone needs to do (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Elizabeth Smith |
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| Article Title :: A Moment of Truth: Confessions of a True Chocoholic |
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| Is all the chocolate from your kids’ Trick-or-Treat bags gone already? And not because your children ate it all? If you are anything like me, the chocolate candies are nowhere to be found because you have relentlessly snatched them from your unknowing children and, with much guilt and remorse, ate them all. Not because you don’t like your kids eating too much chocolate (it’s for their own good, right?). And not because you are desperately trying to put on a few pounds. The truth is, you are a serious chocoholic, and anything containing chocolate doesn’t last long in your home because it ends up in your stomach.Now, many of us are well known as chocoholics, but others, to so (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Jaynne Nichols |
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| Article Title :: Chocolate - Good for You or Too Good? |
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| Is chocolate an important thing to include in your diet? Most of us are very willing to make chocolate a regular feature in our diet. In fact, people have implied that chocolate may have health benefits as far back as the 17th and 18th centuries.Today, chocolate is considered such a staple in our diet that it’s even included army food rations.We may love chocolate, but is it really good for us? Many scientists and researchers have given their opinion, with mixed results.Of course, a certain degree of cynicism surrounds these studies since many of them are underwritten by the chocolate industry. But there are have been some interesting studies related to chocolate (read full article) |
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Author :: Shalin Popat |
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| Article Title :: A Chocolate Fountain of Youth? |
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| We humans are strange indeed. People spend so much energy in an attempt to look and feel younger, that they so often miss the fact that they are using so much precious time doing so. Could the answer to retaining youth be right under our very noses, could something as well known as chocolate be the answer?Age is seen as the ultimate enemy of the modern man and woman. With the pressures to always be on top and keep climbing, capturing the energy and vitality of youth has a compulsion many cannot ignore. Through history a variety of notions to stop the effects of time have surfaced and allured so many. In the sixteenth century, the insane Countess Bathory and her ‘associates’ mu (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Ivy Mills |
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| Article Title :: Chocolate is Good for You - Inside and Out |
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| Chocolate has been viewed as a global delicacy for centuries, but only recently, it has been discovered that chocolate contains an array of phytochemicals, considered highly valuable to our health. Cocoa products, including chocolate, are among some of the most concentrated sources of flavinoids – rich antioxidants. These antioxidants have the ability to destroy free radicals and inhibit lipid oxidization.This is good news. That means that if you eat chocolate, you are actually lowering your risk of cardiovascular disease, increasing your trace mineral intake capabilities and intaking an anti-inflammatory. There are also rumors that chocolate can help in the fight against cancer. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Gabe Mirkin, M.D. |
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| Article Title :: Does Chocolate Prevent Heart Attacks? |
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| Will a chocolate bar a day keep heart attacks away?The candy industry keeps trying to convince us that chocolate is a health food by sponsoring and publicizing studies. One of the latest, in the medical journal Hypertension (July, 2005), shows that eating dark chocolate lowers high blood pressure. Jeffrey B. Blumberg, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University, gave 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day for 15 days to 20 people with high blood pressure. Their systolic blood pressure dropped by an average of 11mm.Researchers at the University of California at Davis reviewed a number of recent studies on chocolate and its health benefits (The Journal of the American (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Shalin Popat |
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| Article Title :: Chocolates at Valentines - The Way to a Woman's Heart? |
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| Well we all know that Valentines Day is the day of lovers and a day for giving gifts to those you care about but why is chocolate still the most popular gift given on Valentines Day? Why is chocolate is so closely associated with romance?Since chocolate was brought to Europe it has been considered the food of love. Stories of its properties as an aphrodisiac for the aristocrats were well known. The Spanish who brought it to Europe learnt about chocolate from the Aztecs. It was however a European tradition that each year on the 14th of February young men would court young ladies with flowers and gifts and because back then chocolate was rare and expensive it wasn’t long before thi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Jane Roseen |
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| Article Title :: The Ancient History of Chocolate |
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| A journey through the history of chocolate reveals that this mysterious food has woven its story throughout multiple cultures and continents impacting civilizations culturally, socially, economically and spiritually. A study of the history of chocolate begins by going back in time to the realm of the Maya Indians and the Olmec Civilizations of Central America.The word cacao was found in the Olmec vocabulary nearly 3,000 years ago. The hot, humid, but shady climate of the tropical rain forests of this region was perfect for growing cacao plants. The Maya felt the cacao tree was owned by the gods and the pods were offered as a gift from the gods to man. The cacao pod became the symbo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Joanna Jones |
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| Article Title :: Chocolate Fountains - The New Must Have For Parties, Weddings And Events |
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| Do you remember parties and events only a couple of years ago? Parties without chocolate fountains? How did we ever cope without them?!Chocolate Fountains are now the ‘must have’ feature for any party. Weddings, corporate events, product launches, premieres, Christmas parties, any type of event!Guests are drawn to them like bees around a honey pot. There are always a handful of people who just cannot stay away! They work their way around each dip. Stop… admit how guilty they feel, then carry on around the fountain again!Many chocolate fountain bookings are for weddings. With couples choosing them as an alternative wedding cake (let’s face it who likes we (read full article) |
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| Category :: Chocolate Articles |
Author :: Paul Cris |
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| Article Title :: How Chocolates are Manufactured? |
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| Making chocolates is a long process. It starts from harvesting cocoa and finishes with the drying of chocolate. The process begins with,Fermentation: After collecting the cocoa beans and surrounding pulp from the cacao tree the fermentation process starts. These seeds and pulp are placed either in boxes or banana leaves. It takes 5-6 days to form alcohol from the sugar of the beans. In the mean time the surrounding pulp becomes liquid and drains out. During the fermentation process the seeds germinate and are killed in high temperature. The beans turn into brown color and look like our familiar cocoa seeds.After the fermentation process the beans are dried and water content (read full article) |
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