The glory of Dark Chocolate/Bitter chocolate

What exactly is bitter chocolate?..Well ! It is cocoa nut paste in its purer form..where the butter it has got is the cocoa butter in more or less its natural percentage and with not that much of added sugar.You must understand that cocoa paste is very bitter, so, unless any sugar is added to it, It will remain bitter and may not be edible as a chocolate bar or a snack.Cocoa does have natural butters aka the cocoa butter.Natural cocoa paste has a different percentage of cocoa butter in it from what the actuall cooking chocolate has.Any chocolate bar irrespective of whether it is cooking chocolate bar or eating chocolate bar, essentially has a different percentage of butter and cocoa from natural cocoa bean paste.That is because, cocoa paste is first sepearated to its cocoa powder and cocoa butter components first and packaged off for seperate use.While making the chocolate bars, these ingredients are remixed again in a different proportion and packaged.Cooking chocolate has re added cocoa butter in a different percentage so that the chocolate bar is more stable at room temperature.
Now that i have given a simple insight into food chemistry and food technology, let us get back to bitter chocolate.
Pure cocoa has considerable amounts of caffeine which is deemed a stimulant.It also had a lil bit of other substances which are stimulant in some way too.Cocoa also is deemed to be cardioprotective too. It could be by virtue of the caffeine per say or by virtue of the other substances which are antioxidants .
Having said that, lot of people mistake milk chocolate to be beneficial to the heart and such.WEll, milk chocolate or the other commercially available edible not so dark chocolates have very high quantities of refined sugar in them, not to mention the added preservatives since milk has been added to make the milk chocolate and will go bad if there are no preservatives..The percentage of original cocoa butter is not as high as there is substitution with added animal milk butter instead of the cocoa butter in milk chocolate.So, milk chocolate is not healthy.
Bitter or dark chocolate in comparison is definitely healthier .Dark chocolate has a rather aquired taste appeal though.It is bitter and sometimes if it almost 80% cocoa, it is medicinal tasting to some palates ..LOL..but i am a great fan of Bitter chocolate,,Love it to death.