Hooked On the Weightloss Shake

I’m not much for junk food candy bars. It’s a rather brutish way to get a chocolate fix. But I do like to keep up with what the major chocolate companies are doing. I always take an interest in Hershey’s new endeavors, or what candy or drink Nestle has altered to market as their own.

Well, it seems the manufacturers are finally catching on.

More and more these days I notice classic candy bars are coming in “Dark Chocolate” flavors. Milky Way, Twix, Kit Kat, and even the original Snickers bar all come in dark varieties. Of course, the Snickers bar isn’t a chocolate bar as much as a nouget and peanut bar coated in a thin layer of chocolate. Nevertheless, this new “dark trend” is certainly a step in the right direction.

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I’m a bit of a dark chocolate snob. I believe milk chocolate dulls the cocoa taste and just adds sugar. But now I may have legitimate reason to turn my nose up at milk chocolate… Recently dark chocolate has become more popular due to it’s antioxidant properties. Well, apparently, all the antioxidant power of cocoa is negated by addition of milk into chocolate: http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20030827/dark-chocolate-is-healthy-chocolate