Is Chocolate The Secret To Better Health? | Spencer Hyman

Is Chocolate The Secret To Better Health? | Spencer Hyman

💬 “Chocolate has got more complexity of flavour than just about anything else on the planet” ~Spencer Hyman

⚡️ Spencer Hyman is the Co-Founder & Chair of Chocolate at Cocoa Runners, a company that sources the world’s best craft chocolate and brings them all together under one roof. Spencer is a chocolate and flavour nerd and hosts regular tasting events to share his passion. I even get to taste some myself!

⚡️ In this episode Spencer and I explore the history of humankind’s love of the cocoa bean, why craft chocolate is so much healthier than your classic supermarket bar, as well as the surprising range of health benefits it offers.

🎧 Stay tuned to find out:

➡︎ How modern processing strips all of the good out of supermarket chocolate bars

➡︎ The sneaky tricks “Big Chocolate” uses to get you to scoff bar after bar

➡ The difference between flavour and taste, and how to savour your food more

➡︎ Whether dark chocolate really is healthier than milk

➡︎ Why toxic heavy metals have been showing up in chocolate bars

📕 Chapters

(1:47) How your chocolate is made

(3:38) Chocolate’s history

(5:08) Why it matters where your chocolate is from

(6:31) Normal vs craft chocolate

(11:29) Health benefits of good chocolate

(17:21) Can milk or white chocolate be healthy?

(22:12) Flavour, taste and mouthfeel

(26:15) Chocolate and heart health

(32:38) Why you should savour your food

(37:26) Why we find it hard to describe flavour

(41:46) Taste test

(58:39) Where can you buy craft chocolate?

(1:00:25) How much chocolate should you eat?

(1:01:58) Heavy metal contamination

(1:06:47) Why ‘fair trade’ isn’t very fair

📱 Connect with me:

TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan

Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr

📱 Connect with Spencer:

Website: https://cocoarunners.com/

🔥 Get my free weekly newsletter filled with easy to action health tips, interesting facts and science to fill your curiosity: https://drkaran.beehiiv.com/subscribe

🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook

🎙️ An OG Podcasts production.

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