Chocolate that is healthy?!

[E.R.K.2006]

Found out that curly wurlys (British chocolate), is actually alot more healthy than most chocolate! 

[A_Lurker]

I suspect the issue is portion control (ie. it's a smaller serving).  Usually dark chocolate is considered the healthiest.  My person opinion is that if chocolate is your thing then you find a way to work it into your diet. Restricting everything you love will most often end up with you eating way to much of that particular food.

[silverwalker]

I buy my chocolate fix at Aldi's.  85%dark chocolate comes with portions wrapped individually.  It does take some time to get used to the lack of sweetness in dark chocolate but it can be very satisfying.  And I am much less likely to go over one portion with the darkest version. 

[Dominique]

Here is the nutritional information of Curly Wurly:

You may consider it "healthier" than plain chocolate, as it has less calories per 100 g. But that’s still a lot of sugar, not much protein and hardly any fiber. For about 100 more calories, I’d rather eat 100 grams of peanut butter and get 10 times more protein, 10 times more fibre, lots of good fats and only one tenth of the sugar content.

What is going to make it "healthy" is portion control, as mentioned by @A_Lurker: if you are able to eat a smallish amount and it keeps you happy and prevents you from binging on other undesirable items, then fine.

[DanielleinDC]

I agree that it's largely a matter of portion control. A small amount of chocolate is good. Eating an entire bar is not so good.I've also discovered that the higher the cacao content, the higher the sat fat content. I usually go for dark chocolate in the 55 to 65 percent range. What I hate is when companies put milk in dark chocolate. Why? That negates all the benefits.

[emili]

yep dark chocolate is the way to go. For me, I eat 5 -7 dark chocolate M&Ms to satisfy a craving and I am good to go... tiny and delish.

[shipo]

For those of us who are runners, chocolate has anti-inflammatory properties; I'm partial to the Lindt Excellence 70% "Smooth Dark" bars myself.  🙂

[GKI]

Lindt 85-90% black chocolate is my favorite!

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[AndyDandyPandy]

Eating healthy chocolate is like drinking diet soda.

If you have a problem with chocolate in the first place i suggest to just avoid it until you are disciplined enough about portion control and don't binge.

[shipo]

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@AndyDandyPandy wrote:

Eating healthy chocolate is like drinking diet soda.

If you have a problem with chocolate in the first place i suggest to just avoid it until you are disciplined enough about portion control and don't binge.

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Ummm, no, diet soda, or any soda for that matter, has zero redeeming value; chocolate, especially very dark chocolate, has numerous documented healthy properties.

[modelmalina]

I've always love chocolate. Dark chocolate is the best.

It's great for your heart.

M.