Unsweetened Chocolate – Choosing Healthy Chocolate

Executive Summary About Unsweetened Chocolate  By Chris Alleny

Abstaining from chocolate is surely not an easy feat. Even chocolates that are marketed as sugarless or sugar-free still contain maltitol, which is almost as bad as sugar. Is it possible to consume chocolate in its pure yummy goodness without consuming the carbohydrates and alarmingly high sugar? Chocolate, particularly unsweetened chocolate, also contains lots of minerals. The fat contained in chocolate, when it is made of pure cocoa butter (and not animal fat or vegetable fat), is healthy fat-either stearic acid or monounsaturated fat, both considered to be “good saturated fat.”

Appreciating Unsweetened Chocolate

The Maya and Aztecs, the earliest civilizations known to have consumed chocolate, used to drink unsweetened chocolate spiked up with some chile and spices. Sugar

unsweetened baking chocolate

alcohols can provide the same characteristics as regular sugar to chocolates. It counteracts the bitterness of chocolate wonderfully better than artificial sweeteners. When buying sugar-free milk chocolates, use sugar alcohols that have the least impact on blood sugar such as erythritol. A healthy, but still yummy alternative is diabetic chocolate.

Different Types of Chocolates

Take AERATED chocolate for instance. It usually dark or white chocolate where air bubbles are introduced to the chocolate as it is being made.

And then there is FILLED Chocolate. The content of cocoa was 40-60%. Now some producers make chocolate ranging from 70 to 85%. Here is a list of unknown or unimagined chocolates.

Unsweetened Chocolate—this what people use to bake with. It is sometimes referred as pure or bitter chocolate. It contains at least 35% chocolate liquor. There really no difference between bittersweet and semi-sweet chocolate. Often times they are referred as dark chocolate. The chocolate bittersweet or semi-sweet (the type baked with) is sweetened by adding cocoa liquor without adding the cocoa butter.

Sweet Chocolate—this chocolate is sometimes mistaken for bittersweet. Milk Chocolate: This raw chocolate contains at least 10% chocolate liquor then cocoa butter and sugar is added in various amounts then at least 12% milk, cream, or milk powder is added.
White wedding favors Chocolate: technically isn’t considered a type of chocolate since it doesn’t contain chocolate liquor. Cocoa powder— is really cocoa powder or unsweetened cocoa.

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