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Article: Healthful chocolate? Anatomy of a sound bite. (phenol-containing chocolate may be as useful as red wine for lowering heart disease risk)
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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Chocolate lovers across the country were jumping for joy over the recent news that chocolate contains phenols--the same antioxidant compounds found in red wine and believed to help lower the risk of heart disease.
Is this a dream-come-true scenario from Woody Allen's Sleeper? (That's the movie in which Allen finds himself in a future where everything that was once bad for you is now good.) Not quite. There are some crucial caveats.
In a series of recent laboratory experiments, wine chemist Andrew Waterhouse, Ph.D., of the University of California at Davis, measured phenols in various cocoa and chocolate products. He also measured the extent to which ...