Scientists have developed world’s first ‘medicinal’ chocolate

There’s good news for die-hard chocoholics – scientists have developed a type of chocolate that is so healthy that it could also be taken as medicine, reports the Daily Mail. This is because this chocolate prototype only has 35 percent sugar and fat.

Kuka Xoco, an American company which is developing this chocolate, was able to do this by sweetening the unpalatable pure cacao with a herb from the Andean region of Bolivia and Peru. “This eliminates the need for sugar, sweeteners and much of the fat in chocolate, unleashing the medical benefits of cacao,” says Gregory Aharonian of Kuka Xoco, according to the Daily Mail. He even revealed that their long-term aim was to develop chocolate that contains just ten percent fat and sugar.

At the World Chocolate Forum held in London this week, Mr Aharonian, not only described sugar as ‘the next nicotine’ but also insisted that if the unhealthy ingredients were removed from chocolate, it could also be consumed medicinally.