If it's not RAW chocolate, then it's a processed zero food...

[goldencup]

We seem to have that effect quite often...

[loulou]

i think we all frightened poor gareth away.

What did we do?

[netbuddy]

Well it seems that "Newbies" are a rare entity given that most of them that join end up advertising out right, spamming or using subtle ways to "Market" a product.

Unless Gareth comes back to state otherwise, I am going to assume that the motive for the thread was just that, an advertising subvert. In English, the motive was always to advertise under the guise of being a thread. The title sayas it all "If it's not RAW chocolate, then it's a processed zero food..."

My rest my case M'lud.

[drterror666]

YAY!

[davidc]

I once read in a womens weekly magazine (not that I read them of course...) that dark chocolate has all the goodness taken out of it as the taste makes it too bitter, therefore effectively making it even less good for you than milk chocolate. At least milk chocolate has calcium (milk) in it!

[drterror666]

What they do is they remove the flavonoids, which contain all the good stuff but retain that bitter taste.  Now, I love that bitter taste, but most of the British public don't.  So, most of the crappier chocolate companies take them out, making any health benefits of the chocolate redundant.  Milk chocolate may have milk in it, but it also contains a lot of sugar!