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Article: Dark chocolate gains shelf space: Health benefits increase its popularity - but remember it's still candy
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- May 22, 2005
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Move over milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is commandeering real
estate in the candy aisle, quite pleased with its deep, dark self.
It's not just pricey imported chocolate bars taking up shelf space
and boasting how dark they are. Take a look at the dark chocolate
M&M's and dark Hershey's Kisses.
There's method to this darkness. It just so happens that
researchers recently have focused on the potential health benefits of
dark chocolate, which ultimately could translate into ... cha-ching.
In fact, candy makers are reporting an increased demand for the
biting taste of dark chocolate.
So far, candy packaging doesn't claim such benefits, but some
labels now billboard the candy's "percent cocoa" ...