Cocoa is a powder made from bitter cocoa beans. It is the main raw material for making chocolate and in its pure form its beans are very healthy. Cocoa beans contain fats, sugars, vegetable proteins, a number of minerals and vitamins.
Caffeine is also found in cocoa, but it is in very small amounts - much less than the caffeine in coffee. Cocoa beans have less caffeine than tea, which means that the amounts are really very little.
According to a number of studies, cocoa contains more antioxidants than blueberries, goji berry, red wine and pomegranates. As we all know, antioxidants are extremely valuable in the fight against harmful free radicals.
Cocoa has stimulating properties due to the small amounts of Caffeine in it and theobromine. Theobromine is a mild stimulant that has a weak diuretic effect. Last but not least, cocoa contains serotonin - the hormone of happiness.
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