What is made of dark chocolate
Materials needed for the production of dark chocolate: cocoa liquor block, cocoa butter, powdered sugar, light cream
The practice of homemade dark chocolate:
1. Put all of the cocoa liquor block, cocoa butter and powdered sugar in a clean container (Note 1. The container can not have a drop of water, otherwise the cocoa can not be dissolved.
2. Cocoa liquor cubes and cocoa butter are best in small pieces to save melting time.
3. Powdered sugar must be sifted and heated over water, stirring constantly. Temperature control between 40-60 degrees. When the cocoa liquor block, cocoa butter and powdered sugar completely dissolved, stir well to add light cream, stir quickly, you will find that the chocolate paste will be more and more viscous, more and more delicate. Fill it directly into your favorite mold, put it into the refrigerator to set and take it off the mold.
Dark chocolate is acidic or alkaline
Dark chocolate is weakly acidic.
Most people have a very vague understanding of food acidity and alkalinity, and think that food that tastes acidic is acidic, and food that tastes astringent is alkaline; some people use litmus paper to test the food juice, and judge the acidity and alkalinity based on whether the paper is red or blue. In fact, the opposite is true, a lot of acidic food, such as lemon, citrus, peach, vinegar, etc., into the human body, the food in the decomposition of organic acids into carbon dioxide, water and most of the cations, most of the metabolites for the alkaline material, and therefore belongs to the alkaline food.
What kind of dark chocolate is good
None of our domestic dark chocolate seems to be able to meet the requirements. If the economic conditions allow, we have to choose more than 50% cocoa content of dark chocolate (ingredients list are marked, imported dark chocolate in the front or back of the package can be found in the percentage of "%" to indicate the content of cocoa), preferably more than 70% of dark chocolate. Because only the cocoa content is more to a greater extent.
Benefits of dark chocolate on the body
1 protection of cardiovascular
Dark chocolate in the natural antioxidant polyphenols in high content, which has a similar anti-inflammatory effect with aspirin, in a certain concentration can reduce the activation of platelets, the transfer of free radicals in the vascular wall of the deposition, the cardiovascular play a protective role in a certain degree of reduction in the incidence of cardiovascular disease. The incidence of cardiovascular disease is reduced to a certain extent.
2 appetite control
The caffeine contained in chocolate has an appetite suppressant effect, and can promote human metabolism. Moderate intake of chocolate can create a sense of satiety and effectively control appetite. Among all the chocolates, dark chocolate has the lowest sugar and fat content, but its caffeine content is higher than milk chocolate.
3 Regulate the digestive system
The fiber in dark chocolate has the function of promoting intestinal peristalsis and helping gastrointestinal digestion, and isoflavones have the function of inhibiting the secretion of chloride ions in the intestinal tract, which can alleviate the symptoms of diarrhea.
4 regulate immune function
Dark chocolate can meet the body's demand for a variety of nutrients. At the same time, the flavonoids in dark chocolate also have the role of regulating immunity, which can protect the immune system from free radicals, and polyphenols also have the function of regulating a variety of human immune cells.