Chocolate and Health: Friend or Foe?

• Autor principal: Emilio Jirillo (auth)
• Otros Autores: Mauro Serafini (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Colección: Frontiers Research Topics
• Materias: Medicine; Antioxidants; Obesity; Flavonoids; Humans; Chocolate; Blood pressure; Inflammation; Cognitive function; Cocoa; Immunity
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the ancient past, cocoa has been appreciated as a high-calorie food to boost energy in soldiers and for its undefined medicinal and mystical properties. During other times, chocolate has been considered as the forbidden "food of God": a treasure of pleasure for the mind and the soul. Th...