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Chocolate.com

Chocolate.com features handmade, artisan, and gourmet chocolate gifts from world-class chocolate vendors. We bring together the chocolate chef and the gift buyer to form a unique marketplace. We believe that the world's finest chocolate is found in small shops scattered across the globe - each having a distinct approach and unique offering of ingredients. In many cases, our vendors provide a product that is more fresh, more artistic, and less common than factory-made chocolate.

Chocolate.com also offers its own brand of fully customizable chocolate: pops, trading cards, business cards and medallions. These edible photos can display corporate logos, children, loved ones, or any other image. Chocolate.com personalized products are perfect for parties, events and promotions.

Chocolate.com has been featured in Business Week and The Boston Globe/Boston.com food editorial "Dishing."

Our company is made up of a small team of chocolate enthusiasts, software developers and customer support representatives based in Boston, MA. We focus on finding new and exciting chocolate creations, communicating with customers, and improving our automated systems to provide reliability to buyer and seller.

Chocolate.com caters to the gift buyer. We allow the customer to select a delivery date that fits his/her needs, ship to multiple recipients, and include a gift note. Our wonderful chefs enable us to offer products in a wide range of categories. From dark chocolate truffles to chocolate covered popcorn - we believe that there is something for everybody in our vast collection of gifts.

CHOCOLATE - HEART MEDICINE

An every day ratio of dark bitter chocolate could help prevent heart diseases, according to a study realized by a team of Swiss researchers. The Swiss researchers say that the anti-oxidants from chocolate could prevent the blood veins to become smaller and less wide.

The research team came to this conclusion after testing on a group of 20 volunteers, which were smokers without health problems. The subjects were asked not to eat any types of aliments rich in anti-oxidants such as apples, onion and cabbage and after that they were given 40 grams of different types of chocolate.

Two hours after consuming the chocolate, the echo-graph showed that black chocolate, with a cocoa percent of at least 74%, significantly improved the blood flow. Additionally, ulterior tests showed that the risk of encountering blood accidents and blockages had been decreased to half of the initial risk. However, white chocolate did not achieve similar effects. The researches that performed the study say that dark chocolate contain the biggest quantity of anti-oxidants for one gram than any other products like red vine, green tea or forests fruits.

Chocolate is indeed an aliment that has many anti-oxidant elements in it. But it also contains fats and glucoses in huge quantities. So, it can cause weight problems if excessively consumed.

The best thing to do is to adjust your chocolate portion to your actual weight and to the amount of physical effort you make everyday. Persons that are involved in a great deal of effort can consume chocolate without fearing weight problems. But the ones that don't, like people working in offices, sitting all day on a chair and not doing any kind of sports are confronted with a big problem if they eat too much chocolate. If the organism doesn't call for sweets, like it does when we are cold, tired or worn out, then the chocolate use should be reduced to a minimal portion a day.

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