Chocolate and Health: Friend or Foe?

• Main Author: Emilio Jirillo (auth)
• Other Authors: Mauro Serafini (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Antioxidants; Obesity; Flavonoids; Humans; Chocolate; Blood pressure; Inflammation; Cognitive function; Cocoa; Immunity
• Online Access: 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...