Facts About Chocolate

Chocolate 101: Select the Best Chocolate

Ready to take your chocolate enjoyment to the next level? Select the best chocolate by knowing a few simple tricks.

The health benefits of chocolate are many. Did you know that chocolate is one of the top antioxidants?

Are chocolate and dogs a bad combination? YES! Can kitty have some of my bon bons? NO! Protect your pets by keeping them away from chocolate.

Tasting chocolate the way the connoisseurs do will open up a whole new level of chocolate enjoyment. Become a chocolate snob in eight delicious steps!

Chocolate history is both yummy and interesting! Discover who invented chocolate as you read about the history of chocolate.

Who won our custom chocolate bar contest? Find out here.

Ever wanted to create your own chocolate bar? It’s the perfect Valentine’s gift for that special chocoholic in your life, not to mention great fun!

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, ChocCreate.com is offering our readers 20% off your very own custom chocolate bars! Just enter the discount coupon code “chocfacts” at checkout. Yum! (Coupon good through 2/28/11)

Custom chocolate bar companies let you choose your base chocolate (white, milk, or dark), and then add a whole slew of ingredients of your choosing. Toffee/banana/candied lilac bar, anyone? Er, okay, maybe not. But if you wanted one, you could create it online.

Alert reader Aubrey had this Fair Trade Chocolate question:

Hi,

I enjoy “dark” chocolate. Lately I’ve been buying Lindt 85 or 90% cocoa bars. I’ve read some strong statements the company has made, claiming that their beans are carefully sourced to avoid environmental and human rights problems. However, they do not have a Fair Trade certification.

Can I keep eating this chocolate with a clear conscience? If not, what would be a good substitute?

Thanks for your help.

I love a good chocolate movie, but they are so few and far between. That’s why I’m pleased to share this little bon bon with you. Independent filmmaker Sarah Feinbloom …

A friend went to Japan and came back with–yes, it’s true–chocolate toothpaste. A company there called Margaret Josefin has a whole line of uniquely flavored toothpastes, called the “Breath Palette.” …

This evening we had barbecue, and, failing to find our usual barbecue sauce at the grocery store, got suckered into buying Big Mike’s BBQ Sauce. It claimed to be “mild.” …

Chocolate 101: Select the Best Chocolate

Health Benefits of Chocolate

Chocolate and Dogs, Cats, and Other Pets

Chocolate 102: Tasting Chocolate

Chocolate History: Who Invented Chocolate?

And the winner is…

A Coupon, A Contest, and A Custom Chocolate Bar!

To Fair Trade, or Not to Fair Trade?

Finally, another good chocolate movie!

Chocolate Toothpaste?! I kid you not.

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