Various unknown bittersweet truth about chocolate

chocolateIt turns out from the image of bad for the body, recentlyPolyphenolHealth effects such as are attracting attention and may be one of the treats that can be eaten without guilt for those who are losing weight and those who care about blood pressure. Especially if you do not like sweets, there are many people who sometimes want to eat chocolate sometimes, such as when you have something disgusting or when you are tired.

From the health benefits of chocolate to the dark side of the chocolate industry, I will introduce the chocolate's knowledge that is not known unexpectedly.

Details are as below.The Bitter Truth about Chocolate


This is the 10 biggest chocolate manufacturers in the world. First placeMars(USA), second placeCadbury(UK), 3rd placeNestle(Switzerland), 4th placeFerrero(Italy), 5th placeHersheys(USA), 6th placeCraft(USA), 7th placeMeiji Seika(Japan), 8th placeLindt & amp; Sprüngli(Switzerland), 9th placeBarry Callebaut(Switzerland), 10th placeEzaki Glico(Japan). By the way, it seems that Hershey brand and M & M · Mars brand will occupy 2/3 of the market in the United States.


Consumption of Chocolate In the world's best America, the chocolate industry is forecast to reach $ 18 billion in 2011 (about 1.4 trillion yen).


The six largest in the worldCacaoProducing countries,Cote d'Ivoire·Ghana·Indonesia·Nigeria·Brazil·CameroonIt is all within the cacao belt from 20 degrees north latitude to 20 degrees south latitude.IITAAccording to the report, 284,000 children work at cacao farms using blades and pesticides. Of those, 12,500 are children who are totally incomprehensible in neighboring areas, suggesting the existence of human trafficking.


Chocolate makers purchase cacao through brokerage traders and distributors. Therefore, it can say that "It is not involved in slave labor or child labor in cacao plantation". I got to see you recentlyFair TradeThe chocolate is based on the effort to change the situation where the confectionery company purchases cacao directly from producers, excluding this brokerage, thereby altering the situation where workers at the farm are exploited.


Chocolate also has good health aspects. Chocolate does not increase bad cholesterol, and the effect of lowering blood pressure has also been confirmed.AntioxidantIt is abundant, and it is known that 40 grams of chocolate contains about 400 mg of antioxidant (equivalent to 1 red wine).


However, if you try to ingest the same amount of antioxidant with chocolate, while a calorific value of one glass of red wine is about 120 to 125 kcal, for example in the case of Hershey's milk chocolate it is 210 kcal of heat and 13 g of fat, 24 g of I will consume sugar. 24 grams of sugar is more than 6 teaspoons.


Chocolate is said to be the food that people sometimes "want to eat asexual" the most. In chocolateSerotonin·Tryptophan·Phenylethylamine·CannabinoidAlthough there are many foods with a psychotropic action such as psychoactive ingredients, there are many other foods containing these ingredients at higher concentrations, so "dependency" of chocolate is "seductive" that people have for chocolatedecadentIt is thought that it is great to bear the image of "food".


The average Americans seems to say 12 pounds (5.4 kg) of chocolate annually, but when calculating all this with milk chocolate, the amount of heat by chocolate is over 26,500 kcal annually. Chocolate is a high energy food.


Included in chocolateTheobromineIt is harmful to dogs, it acts on the central nervous system and myocardium, and it sometimes seems to die poisoning.


Weight loss information siteWeightLoss.orgAs it is edited data, there is a feeling that it treats chocolate as a bad guy a little, but as a confectionery company sings loudly the health effect of chocolate, it may be beneficial to know the dark side.