Do You Know the Differences Between the Chocolate Types?
It’s very rare to find someone in the world who doesn’t like chocolate at all, even if it’s just the habit of tasting this sweet as an ingredient in some combination or recipe. It is correct to say that chocolate is simply an irresistible food, and as if that were not enough, there are several ways to consume it. However, there are three types of traditional chocolate: white, milk and dark. Do you know the main features and differences between each of them?
Milk chocolate is a preparation that takes cocoa mass – in proportions smaller than 50% of the recipe’s composition –, butter, milk, powdered or natural, and sugar. This mixture guarantees this type of chocolate a lighter brown color, creamy texture and a sweeter flavor, which pleases most palates.
White chocolate is one of the types of chocolate that, despite not having the characteristic coloring of cocoa, can also be classified in this food group because it contains cocoa butter, instead of the fruit mass, in its recipe. It is also prepared with milk and sugar, characteristics that increase its concentration of fat and caloric value. Precisely because they use a high volume of fruit in their recipes, dark chocolates are considered more nutritious than other types because they have a higher content of phytochemicals and other nutrients in their composition, as well as a lower fat and sugar content.
Chocolate, White Chocolate or Both?
Although chocolate is delicious, consuming it too much can cause diarrhea, reflux, nausea, stomach pain, headache and even trigger an allergic reaction. This is because chocolate is rich in fats and sugars, which can overload the body when consumed in excess. In addition, excessive consumption of chocolate accelerates weight gain, overloads the pancreas, altering the functioning of insulin – which is a hormone with an important role in the metabolism of carbohydrates in the blood – in the body. The consequences of this are many, and the most dangerous of them is diabetes, a disease that occurs when there is an increase in blood glucose. Exactly why we should look for the healthiest way to taste this delicacy.
Here at Tuscany Cookies we make our chocolate, white chocolate and black and white cookies in the most natural way possible. This way, even if you eat several units of them, it won’t be harmful to your health the way the others are. After all, we bake real handmade cookies, with no artificial preservatives, nothing artificial to improve flavor or color and no addition of hydrogenated fats. All the ingredients we use are 100% natural and fresh. Our Master Chef Diego Silva has always cared for food and a healthy lifestyle for all and that is why he made it his mission to improve the market across the country with affordable, delicious, healthy food options for people to live better lives. With this vision, much love and hard work, he has created the whole Avatar Natural Foods Company, a food service manufacturer made to fulfill all your needs with affordable gourmet food.
This is how he created our delicious Chocolate, White Chocolate and Black & White Chocolate Cookies, so we can please everyone who likes chocolate, allowing them to have access to the flavor they prefer, and if they still can’t choose between chocolate and white chocolate, we have the Black and White together to please them.
The Benefits of Eating Chocolate
Chocolate is good, as long as it is consumed in moderate amounts. The main nutrients within the cocoa bean are: fats, carbohydrates, proteins, fibers and minerals. But what makes it really beneficial for our health is its bioactive principles. Chocolate consumption improves heart health, as it promotes adequate blood flow due to the potent antioxidants from the flavonoid group it contains, which are catechins, epicatechins and procyanidins; stimulates the central nervous system and heart muscles, as it has theobromine, which is a substance with a similar action to caffeine; increases the feeling of well being, as it helps to release the serotonin hormone; lowers blood pressure and improves blood circulation as it produces nitric oxide, which is a gas that allows the arteries to relax; increases good HDL cholesterol and decreases bad cholesterol, in addition to preventing the formation of atherosclerosis plaques due to its antioxidant and cardioprotective effect; improves brain function by increasing blood flow to the brain due to stimulating substances such as caffeine and theobromine, which also prevent Alzheimer’s.
Exactly because it has so many benefits that Tuscany Cookies does its best to make it even healthier when included in our recipes, because we don’t want our customers not to eat a sweet that, in addition to being delicious, also brings comfort and so many other things. good for our health. In this way, our chocolate, white chocolate, and black and white cookies are ideal for consumption, as they only bring a delicious and healthy experience, which is what we cherish the most.
