Sentences with phrase «healthy cocoa flavanols»

«Add heart healthy cocoa flavanols to your diet.

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Barry Callebaut today said it is adding to its healthy chocolate portfolio with the official launch of a cocoa product containing a high level of antioxidant flavanols.

He suggested these findings would be of specific interest to chocolate manufacturers responding to a demand for healthier chocolate, citing Mars's CocoaVia range, which promises to deliver 375 mg of cocoa flavanol antioxidants per serving.

In young and healthy adults, for example, a high demanding cognitive test was required to uncover the subtle immediate behavioral effects that cocoa flavanols have on this group.

In keeping with this, recent studies showed that flavanols, a subclass of flavonoids that is richly represented in natural cocoa beans, increase NO production by cultured human vascular endothelial cells (16) and improve endothelium - dependent vasorelaxation (NO - dependent) in finger (2) and brachial (3) arteries of healthy humans.

For the study, which was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, a group of scientists from Columbia University and NYU gave a daily dose of flavanols extracted from cocoa powder to a small number of healthy 50 - to 69 - year - old subjects.

Plant chemicals in cocoa known as flavanols help the body synthesize the compound nitric oxide, which is critical for healthy blood flow and healthy blood pressure.

The Kuna drink plenty of a beverage made with generous proportions of cocoa, which is unusually rich in flavanols that help preserve the healthy function of blood vessels.

According their study, Italian researchers tested the effect of cocoa flavanols in 90 healthy adults between the age of 61 to 81 whose memories and thinking skills were in pretty good shape for their ages.

Always check the cocoa content when choosing dark chocolate to ensure a high flavanol level and avoid milk chocolate and low cocoa content products that contain little more than sugar to maximize the heart healthy benefits.

One study of healthy volunteers showed that 5 days of consuming high - flavanol cocoa improved blood flow to the brain (21).