[A new product has been unveiled by Belgian company Delvaux which contains only natural antioxidants to improve consumers' overall health.
The innovative Delvaux Acticoa chocolate is created by fermenting cocoa beans under banana leaves to produce higher levels of antioxidants and reduce the bitter after-taste associated with some dark chocolate through a much longer and gentler process.
Delvaux claims that the new Acticoa chocolate is "guilt free", as it uses an innovative new process to retain higher levels of antioxidants called polyphenols in the coffee beans.
Polyphenols have been shown to eliminate free radicals, which can cause cell damage, but general methods for processing chocolate reduce the levels of antioxidants in the cocoa beans by as much as 70 per cent.
Acticoa retains up to 80 per cent of the naturally present cocoa polyphenols in cocoa beans to create a rich-tasting, smooth Belgian chocolate that also has health benefits.
Just two small pieces of Acticoa dark chocolate (nine grams) provide a little more than the recommended daily allowance of antioxidants, while Delvaux Acticoa milk chocolate contains almost the same levels of antioxidants as standard dark chocolate.]
http://www.fdin.co.uk/news/index.phpGuilt free?
I feel no guilt eating chocolate.
