Specialists have some news for
chocolate significant others: it might be beneficial for you. Researchers
reported preparatory confirmation as of late that cocoa and different
chocolates may hold hypertension down, your blood streaming and your heart solid.
The exploration, the most recent
which relates eating flavonoid-rich sustenances with a lessened danger of
cardiovascular disease(1), was exhibited in February at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) yearly meeting in Boston.
One study found that a substance
in cocoa helps the body procedure nitric oxide (NO), a compound basic for sound
blood stream and pulse. Another study demonstrated that flavonols in cocoa
counteract fat-like substances in the circulation system from oxidizing and
stopping up the conduits, and make blood platelets more averse to stick
together and cause clumps. Flavonoids are plant mixes with strong cell
reinforcement properties; in this way, researchers have discovered more than
4,000 sorts. Cocoa beans contain expansive amounts of flavonoids, thus do red
wine, tea, cranberries, peanuts, strawberries, apples and numerous different
foods grown from the ground) The flavonoids in chocolate are called flavonols.
By and large, science has found that dim chocolate is higher in
flavonoids than milk chocolate.(3) The way that cocoa powder and chocolate
syrups are fabricated expels generally flavonoids.