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Dark Chocolate
food70%+ cacao chocolate rich in flavonoids
Reported Benefits
Cocoa flavanol consumption improves cognitive function, cerebral blood flow and oxygen utilization in healthy older adults
Lamport DJ, et al.
Flavanol-rich dark chocolate improved cerebral blood flow, oxygenation, and cognitive performance including memory and processing speed in healthy older adults.
Flavanol-rich cocoa consumption enhances cerebral oxygenation and cognitive function in healthy young adults
Desideri G, et al.
Daily dark chocolate consumption for 8 days improved cognitive performance, systolic blood pressure, and flow-mediated dilation in healthy normotensive subjects.
Consumption of flavanol-rich cocoa acutely increases cerebral oxygenation and modulates brain activation during cognitive tasks in healthy humans
Lamport DJ, Pal D, Macready AL, et al.
Acute dark chocolate intake increased frontal cortex oxygenation and improved performance on cognitive tasks in healthy young adults.
Flavanol-rich cocoa consumption enhances cerebral oxygenation and cognitive function in healthy young adults
Desideri G, et al.
Daily dark chocolate consumption for 8 days improved cognitive performance, systolic blood pressure, and flow-mediated dilation in healthy normotensive subjects.
Effect of cocoa and dark chocolate on biomarkers of cardiovascular disease in humans: a systematic review
Hooper L, Kay C, Abdelhamid A, et al.
Dark chocolate significantly improved flow-mediated dilation from 4.4% to 7.0%, reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 11.9 mmHg and 8.5 mmHg respectively, enhanced insulin sensitivity, and lowered LDL cholesterol in healthy subjects compared to white chocolate.
Dark Chocolate Consumption Reduces Stress and Inflammation in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Mastroiacovo D, et al.
High-flavanol dark chocolate attenuated oxidative stress responses to psychological stress by 65.6% and reduced pro-inflammatory markers in healthy young adults.
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