Monday, November 16, 2009

Xocai Healthy Chocolate

We're all familiar with chocolate... at least the candy bars available at most supermarket checkouts and corner stores. Why do you think chocolate takes up so much valuable store "real estate"? It's because one BILLION people eat chocolate every single day! And half these consumers are addicted to it.

It's the guilty pleasure that we indulge in when we're depressed because it makes us feel better, or eat to fill a gap between meals. It's also the bane of all diets due to the high sugar content and high caloric value.

Now there's a healthy version, but it isn't like anything you've ever eaten before. The taste is equal to any delicious, high quality, dark Belgian chocolate, but that's where the similarities end. Xocai Healthy Chocolate contains no refined sugar, fats, caffeine, waxes, fillers, artifical flavour or colour.

What it does contain is raw, non-alkalized cacao which is cold pressed using a patented process. Acai Berries and Blueberries are added to create the highest antioxidant food known.

Compare the ORAC values of various foods on the left. By the way, ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbency Capacity which is the measurement used to determine how many free radicals can be absorbed by the antioxidants in a food. More on free radicals later! It's hard to believe, but one small Xocai Nugget has the same amount of antioxidants as 1/2 lb spinach!

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