With Easter just around the corner, we’ve got cacao on our minds. So we asked a leading dietitian for the healthiest picks, from low sugar to decadent dark.
Good news for the dedicated chocoholics out there: eating a healthy diet doesn’t have to mean cutting out your favourite sweet snack. In fact, this beloved treat has a host of hidden health benefits (not to mention the joy-related effects of savouring it on the regular) too often forgotten in our diet-obsessed world.
Other than being packed with important minerals like zinc, copper and magnesium, the quality kind contains flavonoids (plant-based compounds) that have antioxidant properties and can help dial down inflammation. Translation: chocolate can actually support wellbeing, as opposed to completely derailing it.
Of course, like most good things, you can easily have too much of it, especially if you have a raging sweet tooth. But there’s no need to banish your favourite block to the back of the pantry until a special occasion arises. In fact, chocolate can be a regular and healthy part of your diet. How, you ask? Well, it all starts with making a smart choice in the confectionary aisle during your weekly grocery run.
So, to make life simple, we asked dietitian Joanna McMillan to nominate the best of the supermarket chocolate bunch. If the Easter Bunny doesn’t deliver the goods this year, take matters into your own hands and add these to cart for a hit of instant satisfaction.
