WE marked Earth Chocolate Working day this thirty day period. But can it ever be balanced?
Cocoa beans – the major component in chocolate – contain naturally happening polyphenols, micronutrients that may perhaps help to cut down blood force and have antioxidant houses.
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But a lot of extra fat and sugar is normally blended in.
Jane Atkinson exams out some of the newest chocolate products that declare to be much better for your well being.
Oatie biscuits
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PRODIGY has a new range of plant-based mostly biscuits with 50 percent the sugar of the frequent equivalent alternatives.
I tried Phenomenoms Chocolate Oaties that are not Too dissimilar to a chocolate Hobnob – while a great deal lesser and fewer crumbly.
But when you are receiving a vegan biscuit that is wheat-no cost and high in prebiotic fibre to aid gut well being, these really are not a negative different.
Moreover they truly feel denser, far more filling and fulfilling.
The “real thing” has 92 calories and 6.2g sugar with 23 for every cent fat, though these dinky biscuits have just 36 energy and 1.2g of sugar furthermore 22.6 for each cent body fat.
That’s not lousy likely. I like these and would buy again. From 71p for a pack of 4 biscuits. See prodigysnacks.com.
Choc corn
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YOU listened to me right. Chocolate sweetcorn. Sounds very odd doesn’t it, but then I surprise who thought up chocolate raisins.
Chocolate Crunchy Corn from Really like, Corn is an odd blend of crunchy dried corn, with a very small bit of salt and milk chocolate.
Incredibly it is effective. They are moreish like pimped-up popcorn with a clean exterior. I tried them observing a film and they vanished!
These have 176 calories per 35g serving, and 26 per cent extra fat due to the fact they are cooked in sunflower oil.
A 90g sharing bag, RRP £2.50. See lovecorn.co.uk.
Lower-cal doughnut
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SNACK brand name Fibre 1 90 Calorie has released a Chocolate flavour and Strawberry & Product flavour doughnut.
These do what they say on the packet – with 22 per cent fibre, they will fill you up but not fatten you up.
They are dinky tiny doughnuts included in a chocolate-flavoured coating and multicoloured crunchy sprinkles.
To examine, an common 25g chocolate doughnut has about 250kcal and 1g of fibre, so the comparison is amazing.
They appear independently wrapped in a box of four.
These are a decent snack, but I located them dense and the dark chocolate caught to my teeth.
If you are a chocolate doughnut nut and require an substitute to the sugar-rich address then it’s possible they are worthy of a go. But not for me.
£2.89 for a box of 4. See tesco.com.
