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The Beauty Benefits Of Dark Chocolate

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Angie Ho Instructor Curt Duffy English 101 10 Dec 2015 The beauty benefits of dark chocolate It is a well-known fact that chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors nowadays. However, many people tend to forget its origin. Generally, chocolate is made from cacao beans harvested from cacao trees in Central and South America together with parts of Asia. The beans are then roasted and crushed into a paste. There is a variety of ways to use chocolate. Cocoa butter, which is used in cosmetics and beauty treatments, is made of removed part of the fat from the paste. When it comes to baking, people use the remaining paste called chocolate liqueur to make bitter chocolate (or unsweetened baking chocolate). There is no surprise that chocolate is chosen to be one of the richest ingredients used in the industry of beauty. Many types of research have proved that chocolate has a lot of elements that benefit our health both inside and outside, and the chocolate type that stands out the most is undoubtedly dark chocolate. One cannot talk about this chocolate without talking about its health benefits. A good dark chocolate is one with a high cocoa content in it. Dark chocolate has no milk in it; this gives it a rich brown color. The content of sugar varies making it either sweet, bitter or semisweet. We have often seen statements like 30%, 75%, or 80% dark chocolate. These percentages signify the cocoa content in the chocolate, which attributes to the bitterness

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