On another site I read a person wondered about shipping chocolate in summer months. The factory rep responded that it cost $50 to ship a $24 order, so advised waiting till fall to order chocolate thru the mail.
Now, we don't wait to ship living organisms like orchids..... so what's up with that?? Vendors commonly use cool/heat pads when they ship, and I don't think they cost an additional $20-$25 does it?
K Barrett
Peanut butter cups are different.......
Once you mix the chocolate with other ingredients, no prob. Chocolate ice cream comes to mind.
It's not that the chocolate goes bad. It just loses texture. (Oh, jees, now I'm getting a chocolate jones. Kathy, what have you started?) ;oD
Diana
Just finished Rocky Road ice cream, microwaved so the marshmallows were soft and runny but the ice cream still cold! Ah!
KNow that's a feat!!!
Yours Sincerely Kye
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Well, that's a simplified version of it.
The flavonols in high cocoa dark chocolates do reduce blood pressure.
You need to eat dark chocolate with at least 60% (IIRC) cocoa content. I use Lindt's 85% cocoa chocolate. It might be a tad bitter for some folks.
Non-dutch processed cocoa gives good results too, when made with water to cut down on fats. The alkali used in "dutch" processing reduces the effectiveness of the cocoa.
Milk chocolate and white chocolate (no cocoa content) are useless .
Hershey's is now selling high flavonol chocolates. I haven't tried them yet.
A Carribbean tribe that was known for not suffering from high blood pressure was one of the starting points for this research. It turned out they drank an extremely bitter, high flavonol cocoa every day. If they stopped drinking the cocoa---when they emigrated, for example--- they developed HBP as often as everybody else.
J. Del Col ( who has had his Lindt ration for the day)
Yeah, we knew that! But all I had in the house was white choc, along with a powerful chocolate hunger, LOL!
Diana
Now I'm salivating!! Did you have to add the photo?!!!
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