Forbes reports most expensive chocolate

Forbes featured the most expensive chocolate around the world! Topping the list is Chocopologie by Knipschildt at $2,600/ pound. For chocophiles a.k.a chocoholics, these quality chocolates are worth their price. According to Chocolate-maker Richard Donnelly, life is too short to eat cheap chocolate. “The products made by commercial companies have to last a long time, and they also need to be inexpensive. That means inexpensive ingredients. It’s a completely different goal than we have, which is to make chocolates taste great.”

Hershey’s reported that there was an increase of 11.2% in sales of dark chocolates. Why is dark chocolate so popular? Not only does it taste good, but, like all chocolate, it contains substances called phenylethylamine and seratonin, both of which are the mood elevators found naturally in the human brain. Moreover, according to Arthur Agatston, a Miami-based cardiologist and author of The South Beach Diet, dark chocolate is also healthier, because it has a higher percentage of cocoa than milk chocolate does.

Agatston says cocoa contains flavanols, which may help maintain a healthy cardiovascular system by relaxing blood vessels and keeping cholesterol from building up in them–thus reducing the risk of blood clots–and by slowing down the immune responses that lead to clogged arteries. It is also an antioxidant. “Flavanols seem to have an aspirin-like affect, helping improve vascular endothelial function and moderate inflammation,” says Agatston.

But, of course, most people don’t buy chocolate because of its flavanols or its antioxidants. They buy it because it tastes good. And while true chocolate lovers are happy to have chocolate in just about any shape or form, the market is clearly growing at the top end.

Second Chocologie is Noka vintage chocolates at $854/pound.

Source: Forbes.com

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