Milk chocolate can be made healthier by adding peanut skins, coffee grounds

[Anonymous No.14591952]

Chocoholics rejoice — researchers are working to make the sweet treat more “healthful.”

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is preparing to present the results of a study that suggests milk chocolate can be made less unhealthy by adding peanut skins and coffee grounds, giving it more antioxidants than bitter dark chocolate varieties while still keeping the flavor light and sweet with a silky texture.

To cook up the antioxidant-packed milk chocolate, Lisa Dean, Ph.D., the team’s lead researcher, obtained peanut skins from a number of companies that normally discard the skins — which are rich in antioxidants that provide anti-inflammatory benefits — after roasting. She and her colleagues at the US Department of Agriculture’s Research Service then ground the skins into a powder and extracted the phenolic compounds, leaving behind the lignin and cellulose (substances in plant cell walls).

Next, researchers enlisted coffee roasters and tea producers to extract antioxidants from coffee grounds and tea leaves. They then combined the antioxidant-rich phenolic powder with the food additive maltodextrin, to easily mix into the milk chocolate.

“The idea for this project began with testing different types of agricultural waste for bioactivity, particularly peanut skins,” Dean said in a news release on the findings. “Our initial goal was to extract phenolics from the skins and find a way to mix them with food.”

https://nypost.com/2020/08/18/milk-chocolate-can-be-made-healthier-by-adding-peanut-skins-coffee-grounds/

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/acs-mhm072320.php

[Anonymous No.14591954]

Different varieties of chocolate were created containing between 0.1 percent and 8.1 percent of phenol concentration. In the taste test, eaters preferred the 0.8 percent phenolic milk chocolate (which had a higher level of antioxidants than most dark chocolates) to normal varieties.

The study, however, notes that bringing such a product to the market is still “a ways off and subject to corporate patents,” though researchers are hopeful that their work will one day result in a commercially available, “more healthful” milk chocolate product.

The scientists plan to use the excess peanut skins, coffee grounds and other products that would otherwise go to waste to boost health content in other foods, as well.

[Anonymous No.14593465]

Why on Earth would I want chocolate to be healthy? The unhealthy shit is what makes it tasty. That's why it's a treat.

[Anonymous No.14593893]

Someone called me an "anti-vaxxer" and tinfoil hat wearing moron" for telling him that pasta and bread are devoid of nutrtition and basically empty carbs.

Is it just me or have people literally become sheeple when it comes to food? Is it because of coronavirus and the sudden appeal to authority?

Sorry for shitting up your thread.

[Anonymous No.14593902]

does it alter the taste?

[Anonymous No.14593905]

>>14591952
>Yes, let's add ground seed shells and burnt seeds into this sludge of seeds to make it more healthy
Even more hints that the "antioxidant" theory might actually be bullshit.

[Anonymous No.14594594]

>>14591952
Milk chocolate tastes like literal shit though

[Anonymous No.14594611]

>>14593893
EAT THE CARBS, GOY

[Anonymous No.14594906]

>>14591952
It would be even healthier if you added actual chocolate into the chocolate.
This seems like even more corner cuttings to save bucks.
Most of chocolate is just cacao butter, sugar and coloring.

[Anonymous No.14594913]

>>14594611
EAT DEEZ NUTS, BOY

[Anonymous No.14594921]

>>14593893
white bread is devoid of nutrition, but whole grain bread is actually pretty good for you

[Anonymous No.14594925]

>>14594921
Especially if you mix grains which provides a more complete protein, or just use something other than water in the dough.

[Anonymous No.14594933]

>>14593893
If you're buying soft white bread then yes, but that's not all bread.

I agree about pasta though because stuff like wholemeal pasta tastes like shit. Still, as long as you don't over-eat, a bit of pasta is still fine.

[Anonymous No.14594955]

milk chocolate sucks
it's almost never about the taste of cocoa + milk, it's just a pretext to cram as much sugar as possible into a chocolate bar

[Anonymous No.14595010]

>eat agricultural waste to be healthy
Well it worked with the dietary fiber scam.

[Anonymous No.14595037]

>>14595010
You're daft. Skins always have nutritional value to them. It's why I never peel potatoes for example. Same is true for peanut. Not the husks, but the thin film that you get.

[Anonymous No.14595076]

>>14595037
>pay me money to swallow this agricultural waste humans have been discarding for thousands of years
>it's good for you!
Sure, bud.

[Anonymous No.14595106]

>>14595076
>thousands of years
Sure, bud.

[Anonymous No.14595144]

>>14595106
I'm sorry your jungle island country was slow to develop agriculture.

[Anonymous No.14595169]

>>14595144
If you think people were discarding food like they do today for "thousands of years", you're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.14595178]

>>14595169
>indigestible waste
>"food"
Are you a ruminant animal?

[Anonymous No.14595182]

>>14595076
>Russian
Opinion disregarded, enjoy your Siberian mutations.

[Anonymous No.14595186]

>>14591952
Milk chocolate can be made healthier by removing the sugar. What kind of stupid shit is this? Chocolate is fine. Eating a shit ton of sugar is not fine.

[Anonymous No.14595193]

>>14595178
I'm not talking about indigestible waste like cellulose. I'm talking about the minerals and vitamins present in e.g. potato skins which often get thrown away.

[Anonymous No.14595209]

>>14595186
Noo don't stop eating the foods that cause modern chronic disease. That would hurt the economy!

Just pay money to swallow literal garbage like used coffee grinds or peanut shells. It may not actually counteract the harm caused by eating sugar but wealthy food processing companies turning trash into cash is more important.

[Anonymous No.14595222]

>>14595193
It is a misconception that plant toxins which are concentrated in the skin to form a defensive barrier are somehow beneficial for humans.

[Anonymous No.14595251]

>Not eating 70% and over dark chocolate
ishygddt

[Anonymous No.14595360]

>>14595222
There are no toxins in potato skins.

This whole conversation is just one straw-man after another. I give up.

[Anonymous No.14595433]

>>14595360


Potato plants, like tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, are closely related to tobacco, the deadly nightshade, and other toxic plants, all of which produce solanine.

Solanine is part of these plants’ natural defenses against insects, disease, and predators. The more solanine, the more resistant the plant is to attack.

By far the highest concentration of solanine in tubers is found in or right under the skins.

https://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/outdoors/gardening/are-potatoes-poisonous

[Anonymous No.14595458]

>>14595209
I'm pretty tired of corporations sucking up all the smartest people to waste on stupid research projects that try to make a buck off the problems they caused. The only work nerds can find now is in stupid shit like this. I'm fucking sick of it. I was moderate when I was younger. As I reach middle age, I'm turning into a huge socialist homo. I want it all to burn down. Fuck everything. Humanity needs a hard reset or deserves to die.

[Anonymous No.14595534]

>>14593893
yes, because pasta and bread aren't "devoid of nutrition" (what a moronic term).

[Anonymous No.14595548]

>>14595433
>reddit spacing
>blog sites
can you go be cancerous on your twitter feed instead of here

[Anonymous No.14595682]

>>14593893
I'm 100% certain you're a fat fuck.

[Anonymous No.14595692]

>>14595433
Post physique.
Protip: you won't because you're a lardass.

[Anonymous No.14595694]

>>14593893
I wasn't aware we get vaccinated by means of pastas and breads.
Who'd have thunk it?

[Anonymous No.14595698]

>>14595433
2000 known cases of solanine poisoning have occurred in the past 170 years. Shut the fuck up, you scaremongering puddle of shit.

[Anonymous No.14595703]

>>14591952
>it can be made healthier by cutting it with inedible trash and changing the legal definition of chocolate to anything containing 1% cacao
do americans really?

[Anonymous No.14595717]

>>14591952
This sounds like it was absolutely pointless

[Anonymous No.14595718]

>>14595692

[Anonymous No.14595724]

>>14595698
>"There are no toxins in potato skins."
[link to information about toxins in potato skins]
>Shut the fuck up, you scaremongering puddle of shit.
This is your brain on veganism.

[Anonymous No.14595730]

>>14591952
>dude now chocolate is good for you!
>American studies
gee what a surprisde!

[Anonymous No.14595738]

>>14591952
just eat dark chocolate that's at least 75% dark or cut the sugar instead of adding more pointless corner cutting bullshit

[Anonymous No.14595858]

>>14591952
Just eat dark chocolate. Tasty and doesn't make you feel like shit.

[Anonymous No.14596538]

>>14595178
This pic can't decide if it's referring to grass fed or feed lot cows. Humans can also eat grains.

[Anonymous No.14596560]

>>14596538
All cows eat grass. Grain fed cows eat grain for a few months before slaughter.