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Is Chocolate Better Than Red Wine?

  • December 21, 2003

Scientists have long known that cocoa contains antioxidants, but no one knew just how plentiful they were compared with those in red wine and green tea. Now Cornell researchers have found that that cocoa has nearly twice the antioxidants of red wine and up to three times those found in green tea. Earlier this year I had an article on the appropriateness of consuming chocolate. The reason that cocoa leads the other drinks is its high content of compounds called phenolic phytochemicals, or...