CHOCOLATE

Chocolate starts a tree called cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in place such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia.The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small pine apple. In side the fruits are the tree's seeds. They are also known as coco beans.

How to make chocolate ?

1. Choosing Cocoa

2. Fermentation The beans are fermented for about a week

3. Cocoa beans drying

4. Cleaning of Cocoa beans

5. Roast / Bake Cocoa beans

5. Peeling skin from Cocoa beans

6. Milling

7. Mixing ingredients8. The second stage milling

9. Conching

10. Tempering

11. Coklat ready to enjoy

Advantage of chocolate :Chocolate is rich in plant polyphenols, and especially in a subclass of polyphenols called flavonoids. These substances have been reported to improve vascular function, dilate blood vessels, and reduce the like lihood of clots forming where we really don't want them, such as in the arteries of the heart and brain.

Disadvantage of chocolate :

But it is very important to understand that chocolate also has a lot of calories. If you consume hundreds of calories of chocolate every day the beneficial effect will be more than offset by all of the problems related to overweight, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.

Conclusion :small amounts of chocolate beneficial for health but the larger amounts of chocolate will make it hard for your health

So the real question is - can you stop at one bite of chocolate?