Coffee and Chocolate … ever tasted a nice chocolate with a hot cup of coffee? The chocolate melts and the aroma of the coffee reveal something beautiful … There is an amazing synergy between Chocolate and Coffee. In the mornings … especially over Easter I would have my takeaway large Latte at my desk and a piece of chocolate. The chocolate melts with the heat of the coffee producing an beautiful symbiotic flavour and texture that sets me ready for the day ahead.

We have all heard the benefits and detriments of both coffee and chocolate … (tuning out while another report appears) … they go on.

According to new research (we knew more was on its way), the tasty beverage provides a double benefit: chocolate may slow cancer growth, and java could help you live longer. Georgetown University Medical Center, released good news about chocolate, finding that a synthetic chemical that is similar to a compound present in cocoa beans slows the growth of colon cancer by 50 percent. Not only was any growth inhibited, it damaged most of the cancer cells. The compound, known as GECGC, is very effective at impeding cancer cells; particularly those that grow at frighteningly rapid rates.

I read a nice post on a UK based chocolate website – Chocolate n Coffee … “The obvious synergy of Coffee and Chocolate with human social gatherings is more complex than you might think, smell and taste obviously play a part but it goes deeper than that. Take the dinner party scenario, it’s late, we are feeling the effects of the food and wine, the natural tendency of our bodies is to wind down while we digest our food, we feel relaxed, lethargic and drowsy. But, along come the coffee and chocolates and in a very short time people become more alert and animated, but still relaxed, almost euphoric in fact. The reasons for this seemingly contradictory change in behaviour lie in the natural chemical compositions of both coffee and chocolate.”

More important than the health benefits is the dance … the dance of flavours to cocoa beans have in completely different forms when they are partnered together. Chocolate and Coffee what a beautiful dance they make.

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