Chocolate Is Healthy

We love finding new ideas for healthy chocolate gifts. Vegan and fair trade, Nicobella chocolates use organic ingredients such as sunflower seed butter, oat milk and fair trade dark chocolate, creating blissful chocolate assortments.  Flavors include walnut flaxseed crunch, sunflower banana butter and ginger green tea.   (The walnut flaxseed was a clear favorite in the review we found below).

“Created by dietitian, nutritionist and yoga instructor Nichole Dandrea, nicobella truffles are made with 70 percent dark chocolate — fair trade, of course — and slightly sweetened with agave nectar and brown rice syrup. Open the package and you’ll be able to identify the flavor of each truffle by the decorative garnish. The Ginger Green Tea truffle, for example, is sprinkled with a green tea powder; the Blueberry Almond truffle has a piece of almond pressed onto a corner.

How do the truffles taste? My favorite of the six is the most crunchy-sounding of the bunch: Walnut Flaxseed Crunch. This decadent truffle had a perfect nutty creaminess — full of Omega-3s, to boot. I also loved the Pumpkin Chia truffle, which tasted like a rich, flavorful pie covered in chocolate, and the Ginger Green Tea truffle, which had a fierce ginger kick that made it the most intense of the six.”

Chocolate truffles made vegan, organic, fair trade and tasty!

From Shop.com: Our cookies are oatmeal based and were originally created for those people who didn’t have time to eat breakfast. They are all natural and a balanced source of complex carbohydrates protein fat and fiber providing you with a healthy and convenient alternative to other breakfast foods. Our cookies will supply you with long lasting energy and satisfy your hunger for hours. Although it is called a breakfast cookie it can be eaten any time of the day.

Baker’s Breakfast Cookies Breakfast Cookies Vegan Chocolate Chunk 12 Units / 3 oz

Healthy chocolate sources and raw food diets often go hand in hand, because the less chocolate is processed and closer to its raw state, the healthier it is.

This Indian spiced yogurt recipe from Rawguru comes to life with cacao powder, and includes walnuts and coconut water. It would be lovely for either breakfast or dessert.

Chocolate Chai Yogurt

Chocolate Chai Yogurt – RawGuru.

With traditional chocolate chips replaced by cacao nibs and sugar replaced by agave nectar and fruits, you won’t miss the butter and sugar in this no-bake healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe.   Minimal processing of ingredients, and less of a “sugar spike” make this a healthy chocolate treat. It’s also a great treat for kids to make on their own, while learning to measure and combine ingredients.

Clean Eating Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
1 ¼ cup raisins
½ cup pitted dates
2 cups whole oats
1/2 cup shredded, unsweetened coconut
4 tbsp. agave or honey
2 tsp. cinnamon
Pinch of salt, to taste
½ cup cacao nibs

Directions:

1. Place raisins and dates in food processor and chop into small pieces.
2. Add oats, agave or honey, cinnamon and salt. Process to mix well.
3. Empty into a mixing bowl and add cacao nibs. Mix well.
4. Use a tablespoon measure to portion cookies.  Enjoy immediately or chill before serving for firmer texture.

Clean Eating: Kid-Friendly and Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies | Healthy Endeavors: Developing Healthy Eating Habits for Life!.

Scrub soak and drink in the healthful goodness of Organic and Fair Trade chocolate Enjoy the health benefits of dark chocolate inside and out. Features

• 1 Dagoba Hot Chocolate Organic & Fair Trade Drinking Chocolate
• 1 Koko Beauty Hot Chocolate Milk Bath made with Organic & Fair Trade cocoa butter
• 3 jenzenorganics Chocolate Bath Truffles made with Organic & Fair Trade cocoa butter
• 1 Giovanni Hot Chocolate Sugar Scrub

Koko Beauty and Giovanni bodycare made in California and Dagoba chocolate made in Oregon. All this delicious organic and fair trade goodness is thoughtfully packed up in Earth Friendly 100% post-consumer paperboard gift box tied with Earth Friendly 100% cotton/soy ink Natural Ribbon.