Real Chocolate is Actively Good for You

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Real Chocolate: Over 50 Inspiring Recipes for Chocolate Indulgence

By Chantal Coady

Published 2003

  • About

Among the purposes of this book is to give real chocolate a positive image and to allow everyone to feel good about eating and enjoying it. It is one of the most nutritious and easily digested foods known. It contains a multitude of vitamins (A1, B1, B2, C, D and E), minerals (calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, zinc, copper, chromium and phosphorous) and complex alkaloids, all of which enhance health and well-being. The iron in chocolate also comes in a form 93 per cent useable by the body, the oxalic acid helping bond the iron and calcium so it is bio-available.