{"id":506435,"date":"2026-07-02T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:04:23","slug":"is-dark-chocolate-healthy-benefits-risks-and-how-much-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506435\/","title":{"rendered":"Is dark chocolate healthy? Benefits, risks and how much to eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Let&#8217;s not overstate the benefits. Yes, it has more helpful compounds than milk chocolate \u2013 but it&#8217;s not a health food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s still a &#8216;treat&#8217; food and can be high in calories and saturated fat, so I would view it as a healthier choice than milk chocolate rather than a health food in its own right,&#8221; says Ludlam-Raine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The challenge is that flavanol content varies enormously between chocolate products and is rarely declared on packaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In practical terms, a small portion of high-cocoa dark chocolate, such as 20\u201330g, can fit into a healthy diet, but there is no universally agreed amount that guarantees health benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s not overstate the benefits. Yes, it has more helpful compounds than milk chocolate \u2013 but it&#8217;s not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-506435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}