Chocolate Is Healthy

These Raw-Cacao Brittles are made by hand. First each batch of raw cacao is slowly ground with other high quality ingredients; this process takes about a week to get the right smoothness and consistency without heating the mixture over 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

Then the chocolate mixture is tempered and added to most heavenly fruits and nuts.

Each bite is a smooth, deeply flavorful, divine indulgence. The quality and nutrient content along with an extremely high ORAC* value – OVER 13,700 PER PACKAGE – make this exquisite chocolate the healthiest chocolate alive!
Divine Organics Sacred Cacao Golden Princess Brittle

Vegan food blog Cruelty Free Kitchen shares two wonderful cookie recipes, 100% vegan, that incorporate cacao nibs.  If you haven’t heard us go on about cacao nibs before, here’s the scoop: One of the best ways to consume organic raw cacao is in the form of cacao nibs. Similar to chocolate chips, they are great as an addition to trail mix, yogurt or blended into a chocolate shake. They are unroasted and often unsweetened but taste like true chocolate.  And perfect, we’ve learned, to add to cookies. read more »

Let’s be real.  There’s healthy chocolate and there’s chocolate that isn’t so healthy.  While  we enjoy both kinds, here’s an overview of the best ways to each chocolate. Each maintains the nutritionally-rich and complex properties raw chocolate contains. read more »

As we repeatedly profess, raw, organic chocolate is the healthiest and most nutritionally-rich form of chocolate. Other types of chocolate?  Well, let’s just say the benefits take the form of satisfaction and taste, rather than health value.

With so many other types of chocolate appearing on supermarket shelves, here’s an overview of chocolates and their uses.  In general, the less processed the chocolate is, the more nutrition it contains. read more »

Once you understand the differences between processed and unprocessed chocolate, you’ll know  how to reap the profound health benefits of this mineral-rich  pod from the cacao tree. read more »