Beauty Product Must Have: Cocoa Butter
Products made out of cocoa butter, cocoa beans, and cocoa powder has the power to hydrate, rejuvenate, and protect skin. And, not like real actual chocolate, you can indulge without gaining any extra pound. Here, watch this video on why cocoa butter is great as a beauty product.
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Chocolate Making Classes As A Gift For Men
Everyone has a guilty pleasure. Some do indulge in different types of food and some love to eat and indulge in chocolates. Throughout the years, chocolates have been known to be a potent aphrodisiac as well as a good source of what people call the ‘sugar rush’. Some spend money to buy chocolates, while others go to chocolate making classes.
This is proven to be a nice gift for men since it allows and enables them to show their sweeter side. Chocolate making with your special someone is a sure fire way to have a quality time. Attending classes which teach techniques and processes needed to make chocolates will make affection between the two of you even stronger. This kind of gift can be ideal for men if they too have a sweet tooth for something as delightful as chocolates. You can even urge him to be your partner in taking these classes aside from making it as a planned gift for him.
An ordinary day coupled with well-planned activities like making chocolates can prove to be very well informative and fun. A normal class would include a brief discussion of where chocolate originated, how cocoa can be transform into daily treats we eat, and to differentiate as to what type of chocolate is the best for one’s appetite.
As this fun workshop progresses, you will be assigned in a kitchen and do the actual things that are needed to be done for him to make a chocolate gourmet of his preference and liking. These classes are oftentimes taught by trained and professional chocolate makers. Not only will you be making chocolates of your own design and way of preparation, but you will also be allowed to eat your own creation. These will prove to be a fun event for the two of you to enjoy each other’s company while doing something really worthwhile and educational.
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Raw Chocolate Processing & Tempature Kelly Johnson
The pods are harvested manually by creating a clean cut through the stalk using a well sharpened blade. For pods located high on the tree, a pruning hook type of tool may be utilized with a handle on the end of a long pole. Sounds interesting, eh? Watch this video.
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Sugarless Chocolate
Chocolates have been around for centuries and it is not going to be gone. These sweet treats have lots of types, flavors and variations that will sure captivate once sweet guilty pleasures. They are usually sweet but dark chocolates are normally bittersweet.
Chocolates have been derived from the cocoa plant. Candy factories and makes process the raw chocolate to enhance its taste and have added many new ingredients that improve and makes chocolates a whole lot more delicious. In recent years, they have lessened the use of sugar because it led to different problems and complications. People with diseases like diabetes are unable to process the main component which is sugar. Simple sugar or sucrose can drastically affect a person’s ability to process carbohydrates. Consequentially, people who are in a low carbohydrate diet are also unable to ingest them.
Sugar contains a certain amount of calorie, which are fondly called “empty or negligible calories” by certain nutritionists and these types of calories are not very helpful for the body and these experts suggest that people who are trying to shed off that extra weight are advised to avoid sugar as well. Sugarless chocolates are now available in the market for those chocolate enthusiasts and chocolate lovers that are troubled with sugar problems.
These sugarless chocolates are chocolates having no amount of any sugar that is processed. They utilize sugar alternatives which are either semi-artificial or artificially produced sugar that doesn’t contain any sucrose or simple sugars. There are sugar substitutes in these alternative chocolates like aspartame, stevia, neotame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium. Also other notable sugar substitutes which are acquired from natural means are substances like xylitol and sorbitol.
So start trying these sweet sugarless treats today. You can have lots of it while not being guilty about the negative effects it can give to the body. Indulgence has never been this good.
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Cacao Organic growing and harvesting
Pods that contain cocoa beans grow from the trunk and branches of the cocoa tree. Harvesting includes removing ripe pods from the trees and opening them to extract the wet beans. Pods are ideal for harvest for 3-4 weeks, after that time the beans start to germinate. Want to know more? Watch this video.
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