Chocolate is a healthy food with aphrodisiac qualities. It’s great for our hearts in more than one romantic way. Since chocolate is excellent for cleansing blood vessels, and since we need a high rate of blood pumped throughout the body when we exercise or make love, chocolate is the answer.

Chocolate tastes great and is prepared in multiple ways, in such a way that it is very difficult not to find the right flavor and texture for us.

Chocolate is great for breakfast, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, for a romantic get-together, and it’s amazing if we want to say I love you or just to let someone know we care. It’s great for kids and adults alike.

There are so many presentations that we should have no problem finding the right one for every opportunity.

It’s lovely to be gifted with gourmet chocolate that you wouldn’t normally buy for yourself, but you could also include a jar of chocolate sauce, a tin of fancy hot chocolate, or some chocolate chip cookies.

It is a well known fact that chocolate is the most famous dessert known to both men and women. There is no culture on planet earth without a great recipe that we can enjoy for any occasion. You have the right to prepare, serve and enjoy the most delicious sweets in the world.

Chocolate is made from the seeds of the Theobroma cacao tree. Theobroma in Greek means ‘food of the gods’. The ancient Aztecs revered the cacao tree and used its beans as currency. They saw the tree as a source of strength and wealth and assigned their god Quetzalcóatl as its guardian.

Chocolate stimulates the release of endorphins, natural hormones in the body that generate feelings of pleasure and well-being. Chocolate contains a natural “love drug.” Tryptophan is a chemical that the brain uses to produce a neurotransmitter called serotonin. High serotonin levels produce feelings of elation, even ecstasy, hence the name of the designer drug that also works by increasing serotonin levels.

Scientists at the University of California published in 2001 the results of research carried out by them suggesting that the consumption of certain chocolates can modulate the synthesis of certain hormone-like compounds or cycosanoids that can help maintain cardiovascular health by reducing the vulnerability of the blood vessels and platelet accumulation.

Fine chocolate is produced using the highest quality natural ingredients and each variety has its own distinctive character that is carefully enhanced by the world’s best chefs.

Because the chocolate is made from the finest cacao beans, the end product contains many of the healthy compounds in plants, including minerals such as iron, copper, zinc, and magnesium, and excellent antioxidants such as polyphenols, such as found in tea and red wine, scientifically proven to be very healthy

In addition to being very tasty, chocolate is very important as part of healthy eating patterns. The variety of chocolates, such as dark chocolate, which is strong in flavor and less sweet, the final taste and quality of which depends on the proper mixing and quality of the chocolate beans, as well as the manufacturing process itself.

Chocolate is considered by some to be the food of the gods. The history of chocolate is fascinating. From the first cocoa beans prized by the Aztecs to the production in Britain of the first known commercial chocolate bars, this story is both fascinating and complex.

There are so many varieties of mixes, it’s possible to find great books of delicious recipes that celebrate the intriguing history and culinary popularity of one of the world’s most evocative treasures.

More than 3,000 years ago, the Mayans and Aztecs consumed chocolate. They used cocoa beans as currency. In 1502, on his fourth and final voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus came across a canoe carrying agricultural products, including cocoa beans. He seized the contents of the canoe and brought cacao to Spain. Chocolate became popular in Europe decades later when the Spanish added sugar to cocoa.

Chocolate bars, after-dinner mints, brownies, truffles, doughnuts, chocolate milk – if it has chocolate, we eat it. Hot, cold, solid, liquid, over ice cream… even over meat? Yes, a Mexican sauce called “mole” uses unsweetened chocolate in a sauce that is served over meat. It is a versatile flavor, chocolate. Chocolate has been blamed for acne and cavities, but research has found it to be innocent of these ills. That must have made many people around the world sigh in relief: The chocolate industry sells five billion dollars worth of chocolate every year in the US alone. The United States is only the eighth largest consumer of chocolate. Switzerland, whose citizens eat more than 21 pounds per person each year, leads the world in chocolate consumption.

Chocolate contains approximately 380 known chemicals, so it’s no wonder it’s hard to figure out why chocolate is such a favorite treat. And who’s to say that it’s just one or two things in chocolate that make us feel happy? Many of the chemicals in chocolate are found in other foods, yet we don’t buy heart-shaped bananas to show that special someone we care. It may be a unique chemical combination that gives chocolate its advantage over vanilla, berries, and caramel. Chocolate has been said to improve mood.

Chocolate is a great food and a great gift for friends, loved ones, and a great partner for romantic encounters.