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CHOCOLATE CONTENT - Chocolate differs in actual cocoa content. It is the cocoa content that is beneficial to your health.

White chocolate contains no cocoa.

Milk chocolate generally contains 33% cocoa.

Dark chocolate contains between 55-100% cocoa. For instance, Ghirardelli bittersweet contains 60%.

Premium grade dark chocolate contains only cocoa butter, a fat that naturally occurs in cocoa beans and is made up of stearic acid (34%), oleic acid (34%), palmitic acid (25%), and the rest of other fatty acids, whereby the combined effect of all the fats found in cocoa butter is fairly neutral in regard to an individual's lipid profile.  However, when milk chocolate or lower grade chocolate is consumed, part of the total fat content of chocolate comes from milk fat or various other types of fat, which do adversely
affect cholesterol levels.

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