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[Alex Jokela <alex@camulus.com>]

Off topic (for the list), but there is a relatively new book called 
"Chocolate Wars" by Deborah Cadbury

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586488201?ie=UTF8&tag=imgfus02-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1586488201

It outlines and details the rivalries between the chocolate companies of the 
late 1800s/early 1900s.

Interestingly enough, health claims with chocolate are nothing new.  


 -acj

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On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:17 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> (if only I could figure out how to grow cacao as a container plant,
> I've never been able to keep one alive for more than a couple years)
> 
> Chocolate is the new super fruit, claim Hershey scientists
> 
> http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Chocolate-is-the-new-super-fruit-claim-Hershey-scientists
> 
> By Jane Byrne, 07-Feb-2011
> 
> 
> Cocoa powder and dark chocolate has equivalent polyphenol content and
> greater antioxidant and flavanol content than various super fruits,
> claims a new study by research scientists based at the Hershey Center
> for Health and Nutrition.
> 
> Research suggests chocolate can deliver a bigger antioxidant payload
> than some so-called super fruits
> The authors, who published their findings in the Chemistry Central
> Journal said that their results indicate that cacao seeds thus provide
> nutritive value beyond that derived from their macronutrient
> composition and thus should be termed ‘super fruit’.
> 
> The fruit pulp of the Theobroma cacao pod that surrounds its seeds can
> be consumed; however the vast majority of people have only consumed
> the seed-derived portion of cacao in the form of cocoa powder or
> chocolate. So the goal of the study, said the Hershey scientists, was
> to compare cocoa powder and chocolate, products representing the
> commonly eaten portion of the cacao fruit, with powders and juices
> from so-called “Super Fruits”.
> 
> Cocoa powder and chocolate were compared with powders derived from
> acai, blueberry, cranberry, and pomegranate, continued the authors, on
> measures of antioxidant activity, as measured by oxygen radical
> absorbance capacity (ORAC (?M TE/g)), total polyphenol content (TP
> (mg/g)), and total flavanol content (TF (mg/g)).
> 
> (more online)
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