The Best Time Of Day To Eat Chocolate, According To Science

Timing might affect its health benefits.

Let’s start this article off with a caveat: although some of the components of dark chocolate, including fibre and heart-healthy polyphenols, are good for us, experts agree that doesn’t make it a health food overall.

And many studies that have linked cocoa consumption to heart health did so based on data about the Kuna people, who live on islands off the coast of Panama.

But they don’t eat chocolate in the form most of us are used to. Instead, they drink “many, many cups” (more than five) of ground-up cocoa beans a day, with far less added sugar and fat than you’d expect in, say, an Easter egg.

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