99% Cacao baby
As More Torah readers know – I am a health nut and a sucker for healthy eating. And I saw recently that a little bit of chocolate is good for you (it does something, I am not sure what, but I think it has to do with the heart).
Intuitively, store-bought chocolate, loaded up with sugar and junk, cannot be good. But then I started noticing the high percentage cacao chocolate (I don’t know what cacao is – but it sounds healthy). I bought an 83% bar – it was good, a little bitter – but at 83% that means 17% junk – not for me.
Then I found 99%! And the bar apologizes for the 1% (they did it to be careful). It tastes just like raw coffee beans, but eating it feels good (except that it gets pasty and stuck to my teeth), and a lifestyle of 99% can only mean better living.
I am now an advocate for 99% cacao pure healthy chocolate. Along with coffee and shwarma I plan on living forever.
Does anyone know what “evaporated cane juice” is? It sounds like a scam to me…
October 12th, 2008 Food Talk
2 Comments Add your own
1. Ruth | October 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Tzvi……dear…… I feel a tremendous need to point out to your readers that the chocolate you mention is by far the most disgusting thing they will probably ever eat! It isn’t bitter, it is absolutely evil in it’s ability to rid your mouth of any natural moisture!
I highly recommend that people try Cadbury’s ( made in the UK though) it is admittedly not so healthy but by far more superior in taste! If you want a treat have a treat! If you want a coffee you don’t drink decaf….chocolate is the same.
2. Eliza from the Boston trip 3-4 years ago | May 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Rabbi Tzvi! This is genius! I have been a 99% chocolate fanatic for many years now. My brand of choice is Scharfenberger, which recentlly received kosher hecture. I think it’s wonderful that red wine, dark chocolate, green tea, and so many of life’s finest pleasures are really health foods in moderate quantities. Yay!
And at the risk of exposing myself as a food nerd: Evaporated cane juice is just relativey healthier sugar - the raw sugar cane just was evaporated, and what’s left is sugar cane with all the molasses and natural vitamins etc. left intact.
Also, if you come back to Jerusalem anytime soon it would be an honor for me and my husband to buy you a shwarma or just offer you a proper - caffeinated - organic coffee at our little place in Nachlaot.
All the best,
Eliza Who Was the Oldest Girl on the Boston Trip 3-4 years ago
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