Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Pharmaca Organic Dark Chocolate 70% cacao

The primary cocoa flavor dominates this bar. Slight metallic tone is also felt. Fairly astringent, which informs the bar's fairly light bitter dimension. 6.6 

Pharmaca is an "integrative pharmacy," for which I found this definition: "Relating to a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to medicine that combines conventional treatments with alternative therapies such as homeopathy or naturopathy." I wandered into this pharmacy while visiting Cole Valley, specifically with the goal of seeing what chocolate bars they carried.  I was surprised that they had their own brand label. I take it that they have done this due to the purported health benefits of dark chocolate as an "alternative therapy."

What health benefits? Well, here is one article on this, and I am sure you can find many more if you search the web for "health benefits of dark chocolate." This is an alternative therapy that I can get behind. Stay healthy!

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