It has quite a lot of caffeine plus it's generally very good for you if you get the 100% cocoa/0% sugar stuff like Montezumas
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dark 100% chocolate is a bit extreme unless you're on a ketogenic diet or something
normal people should be able to cut out carbs elsewhere in the diet to make room for a bit of sugar in their chocolate
for example i do no eat things pike potatoes, pasta, rice etc. and i also use stevia instead of sugar in my coffee because i try to keep my carb intake down but i still have my chocolate with sugar in it because that's kind of what chocolate is meant to be
one other warning about chocolate though - not only is it addictive - but if you let the sugar sit on your teeth it is not good for your teeth. so i always have some kind of hot drink with my chocolate to wash the chocolate off my teeth.
my teeth are also sensitive to sugar so sometimes they hurt after eating chocolate so i just brush them without toothpaste that way i don't ruin the taste in my mouth ( which toothpaste would do ) but it still stops the teeth from hurting because it removes the sugar.
you should of course use the lowest sugar content chocolate that you find palatable. for me it's about 70%
i had previously forced myself to use 85% and even 100% but ultimately went back to 70%. also there are chocolates that use sugar substitutes but those tend to be expensive - still if you can afford them it may be worth it to save your teeth. i eat so much chocolate though that i just use whatever i can find in bulk and i never found those sugar free ones at anywhere near decent prices.
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