Chocolate and your Skin
September 7, 2009 by Jo
Eating chocolate produced in a process that preserves the high antioxidant content found naturally in chocolate can help protect the skin against UV damage.
MED which stands for the skin’s minimal erythema dose can be increased by flavanols in chocolate and relates to the dose of UV the skin needs to turn red.
Author of the study Stephanie Williams stated “A 20g portion of the chocolate contains 66mg of flavonols, whereas one green tea serving would contain 47mg and red wine about 160mg.”
She also warned that this would not replace sunscreen but was an additional means of sun protection.
In the study which ran over a three month period, half the subjects ate 20 grams of the high flavanol chocolate a day and half low flavanol chocolate. The MED was almost double in the high flavanol chocolate eaters than the low flavanol chocolate eaters at the end of the test period. The chocolates were made to the same recipe but with a different process.
Chocolate manufactured under normal conditions does not retain its flavanols to the same degree and the Acticoa technology used to create the high flavonol chocolate has been patented.
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Woohoo! I love chocolate!!
Great post…