A new study finds people who eat a small, daily serving of dark chocolate have a reduced risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. People who ate milk chocolate did not have a lower risk. Here's why.

Dark chocolate with 50-80% cacao has the highest flavan-3-ol content with 3.65 mg/gm, while on average 35%-cocoa milk chocolate has 0.69 mg/g. White chocolate has none.

Eating at least five tiny servings of dark chocolate each week may lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 21%, according to a new observational study. In fact, as dark chocolate ...

Dark chocolate has been viewed as healthy and beneficial. The compounds in cocoa are linked to good heart health, a 2015 study published in Heart concluded.

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