Wine News: Chocolate as healthy as red wine - cocoa industry

"Chocolate must be regarded as a health food on a par with red wine, and a bigger taste has to be developed for it in new markets to sustain poor African cocoa farmers, food and industry experts said on Tuesday.

"Everyone knows that red wine is good for the heart, but so is cocoa because it has the same ingredient called flavonoids which reduces hyper-tension or high blood pressure," Cesar Fraga, a nutritionist at the University of California, told a conference in Malaysia.

Fraga, from Argentina, said he gave a group of Argentine footballers cocoa products for a study and they showed a dramatic improvement in blood circulation."

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Posted by Jennifer at July 19, 2005 6:43 PM