The Definitive Guide to Chocolate

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Ah, chocolate. What a life.

According to the Aztecs, the great feathered serpent god of wisdom and creation known as Quetzalcoatl introduced the cocoa bean to mankind. It’s likelier that it originated in the Amazon rainforest and wound its way north to Mesoamerica, whose inhabitants figured out they could domesticate, ferment, roast, crush, and mix cocoa with water, chilies, and spices to produce a bitter, intoxicating drink. It then took a boat across the Atlantic, learning Spanish along the way. Europe wasn’t sure what to make of the bitterness until someone spilled a little sugar into the drink. Cocoa quickly swept across the continent, giving rise to large corporations that persist to this day, like Cadbury, Nestle, Hershey, and Lindt.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson from Marksdailyapple.com.
0:04.8	Enjoy this audio narration of a recent Marksdailyapple.com post by Tina Lehman.
0:10.0	Subscribe to this podcast channel so you don't miss anything from the blog
0:13.3	and read my daily posts on Living Awesome and much more at marksdailyapple.com.
0:22.5	The definitive guide to chocolate.
0:26.3	Ah, chocolate.
0:27.7	What a life.
0:29.2	According to the Aztecs,
0:30.9	the great feathered serpent god of wisdom and creation
0:33.9	introduced the cocoa bean to mankind.
0:37.4	It's likelier that it originated in the Amazon
0:40.1	rainforest and wound its way north to Mesoamerica, whose inhabitants figured out they could
0:46.4	domesticate, ferment, roast, crush, and mix cocoa with water, chilies, and spices to produce
0:53.2	a bitter intoxicating drink. It then took a boat
0:56.5	across the Atlantic, learning Spanish along the way. Europe wasn't sure what to make of the bitterness
1:01.7	until someone spilled a little sugar onto the drink. Coco quickly swept across the continent,
1:08.8	giving rise to large corporations that persist to this day, like
1:12.8	Cadbury, Nestle, Hershey, and Lint. Today, chocolate is everywhere. It's part of the fabric of
1:19.9	human experience. Why is it so good? Let's start with nine health benefits. Number one, chocolate contains healthy fats.
1:30.8	Cocoa butter is mostly mono-unsaturated and saturated fat with very little polyunsaturated fat,
1:37.3	and because most of that saturated fat is steric acid, which turns into oleic acid in the body
1:43.2	and is well known for having neutral effects on
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