ONE-HUNDRED EIGHTY BARS A DAY
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. What about a chocolate bar a day? Cacao beans, the primary ingredient in chocolate, are part of the fruit from a flowering tree, just like apples. Cacao beans are the seeds from the cacao fruit. Cacao beans have more than 300 chemicals, including a poison. Yet eating a chocolate bar doesn’t kill us—it makes us happy.
CHEMICALS GALORE
Let’s look at exactly what’s inside this tasty treat. Several compounds in the cacao bean belong to a group of chemical compounds called alkaloids. Alkaloids
