Forget the wine, break out the hot cocoa and marsh mellows Gary!
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Hot chocolate brews health benefits
Study: Higher antioxidant concentration than tea, red wine
By Kristen Gerencher, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 5:46 PM ET Nov. 13, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Break out the marshmallows, hot cocoa lovers.
Your beverage of choice contains more cancer-fighting agents than tea or
red wine, according to a new study.
As winter blasts into parts of the country, people curling up with a cup of
hot chocolate may be heartened to know that cocoa showed the highest
antioxidant concentration among the three popular drinks, according to an
article to appear in the Dec. 3 issue of the American Chemical Society's
peer-reviewed Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Antioxidants are
chemicals that have been shown to fight cancer, heart disease and aging by
reducing the number of "free radicals" in the body.
Other studies have hailed the health benefits of red wine, but when
measured on the same per-serving basis, the antioxidant concentration in
hot chocolate was almost twice as strong as red wine. Cocoa's concentration
was two to three times stronger than that of green tea and four to five
times stronger than that of black tea, Cornell University researchers found.
The results surprised even Chang Yong Lee, the study's lead author and
professor of food chemistry at Cornell. "I didn't expect cocoa (to be) that
high. I thought cocoa was close to tea," Lee said
Yours bar none,
Garry Lewis
garrylewis747@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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