Who doesn’t love a nice thick bar of chocolate when you’re craving something sweet? One of the world’s biggest comfort foods, especially after a tough breakup, chocolate is among the great gifts to mankind—except for the fact that the truth about chocolate is a lot less sweet than you think. Here’s why the world doesn’t see chocolate for what it really is.
It’s Not Actually Sweet
All drama aside, we’re not saying that chocolate isn’t amazing. It is. And the companies who have been manufacturing chocolate as we know it today for over a century aren’t exactly hiding anything either. No, they’re not hiding anything about what’s in it, such as the abundance of sugar in its content. It’s all there on the package. But perhaps what we, as a society, don’t realize, is that chocolate at its core is not sweet. It’s quite bitter, in fact.
The Roots of Chocolate
As many people know, chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, often imported from countries in Central and South America. It goes through a rigorous process, but it doesn’t actually get its sweetness till much later—when all that sugar is pumped into it. Now, that’s not to say that the essence of chocolate isn’t tasty. On the contrary, it contains a bevy of health benefits, which is why dark chocolate is actually recommended to eat in some cases. And chocolate has a beautiful history. But we as a society have placed it under this guise of candy-like sweetness—and perhaps lost sight of its more gritty, and more authentic origins.
