If theres a health food most people can agree on including nutrition experts chocolate is it.

Not only that, she says, but chocolate has also been shown to be a mood enhancer.

Dark chocolate has a significantly higher cocoa content, ranging from 50 percent to 90 percent.

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Get your chocolate fix and feel good about doing it.

Dark chocolate has 2 to 3 times as many flavanols as milk varieties, according toHarvard Health.

Milk chocolate also tends to have more added sugar and milk, which contains saturated fat.

Most nutritionists recommend aiming for bars with 60 percent cocoa or higher to reap the most health benefits.

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Dark chocolate, due to its higher cacao content, tends to have higher levels of cadmium.

An ounce is all you need.

That amounts to one square of chocolate.

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Choosing a quality bar with a high cocoa percentage can help.

Here are 10 nutritionists say they enjoy.

They provide a whopping 6 grams of protein per ounce serving, per data from theU.S.

See’s Candies chocolate

Department of Agriculture (USDA).

theo chocolate salted almond organic

Valrhona chocolate bar

mast sea salt chocolate

taza chocolate dark chocolate

endangered species chocolate

Scharffen Berger cacao dark chocolate

beyond good madagascar chocolate

salty dark chocolate hu kitchen

Goodnow Farms chocolate

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