Sunday, January 30, 2011

Concerning Health And Eating Chocolate

By Christa Andrews


Delightful, sleek, sweet, comforting... ahhhh, this is the goodness chocolate may bring. It could be a bar or a drink, chocolate can indeed make a person's day complete. From kids to grandmothers, chocolate is really a treat to conquer. It's not called "happy hormones" for nothing. However, there are people who have health conditions or dietary preferences that forbid them to enjoy chocolate. But there are chocolate-related recipes we may be unaware of that might be heaven sent for people with specific health problems.

Health Concerns With Chocolate

A large number of chocolate-related recipes utilize the typical and readily-available chocolate in shops, plain, sugar-loaded milk products. Due to this, the market from the chocolate products is restricted to people without restrictions within their diet. However, with today's relatively unhealthy population, the chocolate industry may be really missing out a great deal if they don't make their products health-sensitive.

Seemingly, the promotional and product geniuses of these chocolate companies are aware of this and they are not going to give up their share of healthfriendly chocolate products on the market. The recent years have witnessed the birth of many health-conscious chocolate products or chocolate recipes that are not just limited to the usual sugar-free and diabetic-friendly ones, but also those which address other health issues too.

Allergies to Milk or Chocolates

Anyone who has allergic reactions to milk are now able to enjoy fresh cup of Milk-Free Hot Chocolate. Just be sure to buy a chocolate mix that is dairy-free such as Vance's. This dairy-free mixture is really a corn derivative. To include creaminess to your drink, you may add vanilla extract or marshmallows. If brownie bar is a dream which you can not reach due to the corn, dairy and wheat content or even gluten, then awaken from that dream now. You might now bake batch after batch of allergy-free brownies by substituting bananas, vegetable oil, potato and brown rice flour instead to the usual ingredients utilized in baking brownies.

How To Deal As A Vegetarian

Vegetarians say they can not eat chocolate since it is a dairy food and it contains eggs. There are chocolates which are now commercially available that claims to be vegetarian friendly because they do not contain eggs and dairy food. These chocolates are diabetic friendly too and are available in various flavors for example mint, spicy, pure dark, vanilla bean citrus, chocolate coconut, pink peppercorn, chocolate crispies, chocolate toasted almond and pure dark organic.




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