About Antioxidants

Antioxidants are measured in ORAC - the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. If a food has a high ORAC score, then it means the food is high in antioxidants. The antioxidant’s strength is its ability to eliminate oxygen free radicals. With ORAC, a higher score means the food is better at helping us fight diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

Of course, antioxidants are present in many foods - especially fruit and veg - and this is why the UK Government recommends 5 servings a day (1 serving = 80g). This aims to provide the recommended 4,000 ORAC per day. Many nutritionists will recommend an intake of three times this amount and indeed, studies have shown 12,000 ORAC is required in order to improve, rather than just maintain, heart health.
 
We certainly don't recommend you to eat our chocolate instead of fruit and vegetables, but the pictures below illustrate how our diets may be deficient in antioxidant intake and therefore how a little of our healthy chocolate or cocoa each day will give your system a real boost. 

One orange, a serving of peas, one apple and a serving of broccoli and raspberries would give you an ORAC score of 2,920.

Now just 9 grams of our dark chocolate, 18 grams of our milk chocolate or 2.1 grams of our cocoa powder will deliver you with  4,000 ORAC - 100% of your recommended daily allowance.

A Chocacao healthy chocolate each day really can help to keep the doctor away !