Amid various studies being conducted on the health benefits of chocolate that inspire you to munch another one, a new research reveals that a key ingredient in chocolate might help lose weight and lower type-2 diabetes risk.
The scientists fed groups of mice different diets, including high-fat and low-fat diets, and high-fat diets supplemented with different kinds of flavanols. "Oligomeric PCs appear to possess the greatest anti-obesity and anti-diabetic bioactivities of the flavanols in cocoa, particularly at the low doses employed for the present study," the researchers noted. The study was appeared in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry.