Healthy Chocolate

Healthy chocolate does truly exist and many people don't realize that unprocessed cacao is the highest source of antioxidants in the world. In fact, just doing a Google search on "cacao" and "health" will return over a million results.

And it's not just NBC, CNN, and CBS that are reporting on the healthy benefits of chocolate, it's medical professionals, scientists, and researches. So eat more chocolate, it's good for you, right? Not so fast. Before you run out to the store, you'd better read a little further.

Most commercial chocolate is anything but unprocessed. Chocolate treats found on store shelves lose their healthy benefits from over processing such as dutching and roasting, and most store brands even add unhealthy processed sugar, milk, fats, fillers, waxes and preservatives.

Benefits of Dark Chocolate

Unprocessed, raw cacao is considered to be the #1 super food in existence because it contains the highest ORAC value, or flavonoids, of any food substance on the planet.

Research has shown that the diverse beneficial phytonutrients and antioxidants in these flavonoids play an important role in protecting the cacao plant from oxidation.

If you're wondering about oxidation, think about bananas turning brown or metal rusting. Both are results of oxidation which is the process of adding oxygen to a compound. This process can produce "free radicals", which is an atom with an unpaired electron.

Science has taught us that oxidation occurs in our bodies naturally and certain behaviors can intensify the process such as smoking, pollution, poor diet, and unchecked exposure to the sun. But science has also shown that we can defend against oxidation, or free radical damage, with antioxidants.

Research has shown that the same naturally protective compounds found in cacao beans, when consumed by humans, also improves health by protecting cells from the damaging effects of free radicals.

In our bodies, antioxidants can react with free radicals to make them more stable and less likely to cause damage to our lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. Damage to these vital molecules has been linked to many common health issues and chronic diseases.

Our bodies can defend themselves against oxidation, but this ability declines with age. Eating antioxidant-rich foods can enhance our natural defenses and help support the immune system and cardiovascular system.

The Xocai Difference:
Comparing Xocai Healthy Chocolate
To Store-Bought Chocolate

Further, most store-bought chocolate use a process method called "Dutching," which adds alkali-potash to the cocoa before roasting. While this process makes processing cocoa less expensive, this alkalinization process removes most of the chocolate's antioxidant benefits.

Another process commonly used by store-bought brands is roasting. When chocolate is prepared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, most of its antioxidant compounds are destroyed.

Instead of roasting, Xocai healthy chocolate is produced with pure unprocessed cacao that is blanched, unfermented, sun-dried, non-roasted, non-alkalized, non-lecithinized, and coldpressed. Being unprocessed, it holds 100% of its antioxidant and nutritional value.

With Xocai, you get the maximum antioxidant power of dark chocolate without the fat, preservatives, wax, fillers and high sugar content of other chocolate. We also use low glycemic sweeteners in our products.

Because these proprietary processes are closely monitored, Xocai healthy chocolate delivers the maximum amount of antioxidants naturally found in unprocessed cacao along with the decadent taste of dark chocolate that you know and love.

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