Is dark chocolate a clean food?

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  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
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    I'm racist, white chocolate or GTFO.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
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    I'm racist, white chocolate or GTFO.

    I must be a self-hating racist because I'm European yet don't really like white chocolate all that much. I like it dark. The darker the better!
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
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    I'm racist, white chocolate or GTFO.

    I must be a self-hating racist because I'm European yet don't really like white chocolate all that much. I like it dark. The darker the better!

    Ummm, chocolate traitor? Once you go dark, you never go back?
  • hmg90
    hmg90 Posts: 314 Member
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    I eat 70% or above. They have considerably less sugar.

    You have to get to 85% before you get the antioxidants people associate with dark chocolate. I don't know what the definition is of "clean eating" but if I was obsessively on that, I'd stick to 85%.

    Obviously you need to always read the package carefully. I have read that the EU and the US Food Adm. only require a cocoa amount of 30% (!!) to qualify for putting "dark chocolate" on the cover.
  • TX_Rhon
    TX_Rhon Posts: 1,549 Member
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    Not sure if it's "clean" but according to the interwebz....

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    So it must be true cuz you can't put anything on their that is not true. :drinker:
  • shartran
    shartran Posts: 304 Member
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    Remember to vote with your wallet...

    FAIR TRADE chocolate is the way to go...
  • harrypotter22
    harrypotter22 Posts: 27 Member
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    my biology teacher says that dark chocolate would worsen your depression if you ate enough of it so he doesn't eat it and his diet is like 100% perfect. he's really strict.
    however i think dark chocolate is fine.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,139 Member
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    does it have less than five ingredients? If yes, then yes...
  • ayalowich
    ayalowich Posts: 242 Member
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    I'm with you. If it's not healthy, it's a waste.

    Smug alert, smug alert.

    Enjoy it in moderation and stop worrying about it. 100 calories a day of chocolate isn't going to hurt.
  • jmv7117
    jmv7117 Posts: 891 Member
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    This is my favorite: Intense Dark 86% Cacao Midnight Reverie Bar

    it's so yummy

    Dark chocolate is like a fine wine! My favourites: Habitual 100% cacao, Olivia 92% raw cocoa and pure maple syrup (organic), and Green & Blacks 85% cocoa (organic).
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
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    I only eat conflict free chocolate. The rest of you enjoy your blood chocolate. You're worse than Hitler.



    :tongue:
    Doesn't 4Chan come to your house and kick your *kitten* if you invoke Hitler on an Internet thread? :laugh:

    No, it's Godwin's Law .. ("As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1")

    4 Chan are great guys. They send you pizzas.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,139 Member
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    This is my favorite: Intense Dark 86% Cacao Midnight Reverie Bar

    it's so yummy

    Dark chocolate is like a fine wine! My favourites: Habitual 100% cacao, Olivia 92% raw cocoa and pure maple syrup (organic), and Green & Blacks 85% cocoa (organic).

    six ingredients = not clean...
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,932 Member
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    The definition of "clean food" I am familiar with is "natural". So, unless the food exists in nature, it's not 100% clean.

    But a food made from 100% natural ingredients could arguably be considered 'clean', in which case it would depend on the dark chocolate.

    In my world, there are varying degrees of 'clean'.
    So it's 0% clean, because chocolate is fermented.
    All of my wut.

    How does that make it not clean? I thought "clean eaters" were all about sauerkraut/kombucha/kim chee? What the hell is the problem with fermentation?
    Does it exist in nature? Dried, fermented beans?

    I guess that means beer is clean?
    I see.

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    Yup, that's exactly how cocoa beans are fermented.

    Oh wait, no it's not.

    So, answer the damned question: Is beer clean?

    No one cares. At least no one who uses his/her brain cares . . .
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,139 Member
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    The definition of "clean food" I am familiar with is "natural". So, unless the food exists in nature, it's not 100% clean.

    But a food made from 100% natural ingredients could arguably be considered 'clean', in which case it would depend on the dark chocolate.

    In my world, there are varying degrees of 'clean'.
    So it's 0% clean, because chocolate is fermented.
    All of my wut.

    How does that make it not clean? I thought "clean eaters" were all about sauerkraut/kombucha/kim chee? What the hell is the problem with fermentation?
    Does it exist in nature? Dried, fermented beans?

    I guess that means beer is clean?
    I see.

    0.jpg
    Yup, that's exactly how cocoa beans are fermented.

    Oh wait, no it's not.

    So, answer the damned question: Is beer clean?

    No one cares. At least no one who uses his/her brain cares . . .

    lol..agreed x 100000000000
  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,074 Member
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    Only if you don't drop it on the floor
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
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    my biology teacher says that dark chocolate would worsen your depression if you ate enough of it so he doesn't eat it and his diet is like 100% perfect. he's really strict.
    however i think dark chocolate is fine.

    I'm sure it's the other way round!
  • Brack3t
    Brack3t Posts: 5 Member
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    My absolute favorite chocolate is unsweetened 100% cacao baking chocolate. Each person will have their own definition of what they consider clean, and for me that chocolate is.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
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    My absolute favorite chocolate is unsweetened 100% cacao baking chocolate. Each person will have their own definition of what they consider clean, and for me that chocolate is.

    Wow 100% - bet that goes nicely with a glass of red wine.
  • Brack3t
    Brack3t Posts: 5 Member
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    My absolute favorite chocolate is unsweetened 100% cacao baking chocolate. Each person will have their own definition of what they consider clean, and for me that chocolate is.

    Wow 100% - bet that goes nicely with a glass of red wine.

    I've never tried it, but now I will have to. Thanks for the suggestion!
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
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    My absolute favorite chocolate is unsweetened 100% cacao baking chocolate. Each person will have their own definition of what they consider clean, and for me that chocolate is.

    Wow 100% - bet that goes nicely with a glass of red wine.

    I've never tried it, but now I will have to. Thanks for the suggestion!

    Red wine is great with dark chocolate - it just takes the edge off the bitterness.

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