Research

In general, when visiting some of these sites you may want to search for chocolate, flavonoids, cocoa, antioxidants, polyphenols which will lead you to numerous scientific articles on chocolate.
 
**NEW - Science Daily & Epicatechins: Cocoa ‘Vitamin’ Health Benefits Could Outshine Penicillin
 
**NEW - Dark Chocolate Flavonoids Reduce High Blood Pressure
 
 **NEW - FoodNavigator-USA.com - Shedding Light on Dark Chocolate
 
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
 
Naked Chocolate by David Wolfe
 
USDA Agricultural Research Service
 
UCLA - Polyphenolic Compounds Inhibit Pancreatic Cancer
*Polyphenolic compounds can be absorbed by the gut
 
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
*Cocoa has more phenolic phytochemicals… 
*Measuring Antioxidant Effectiveness in Food 
*Phytochemical composition and pigment stability of Acai
  
Health and Age
 
Tuberose.com
*Articles about Antioxidants
 
Medscape.com
 
Scielo - Plant Polyphenols Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress

ChocolateInfo.com
*The resource library from the chocolate information center. Mars Candy sponsored numerous articles mostly unbiased which can be found at this site.

Blueberry.org
 
Elvesier- vasculoprotective effects of flaonoid-rich cocoa and chocolate.
 
Sciencedirect.com
 
Nutrition.org
 
Science of Caffeine and Chocolate
 
Cancerarmy.org
 
How stuff works- Antioxidants
 
Down Syndrome Research
 
Antioxidants and Free Radicals
 
Consumerhealthjournal.com
 
Cocoapro.com
 
American Journal of Physiology
 
Chocolate.org
 
Zchocolat- Information on Chocolate
 
Eatright.org
 
Neuroscience for kids- Chocolate
 
Flavonoids
 
Emedicine- Antioxidants and the Skin
 
Botanical.com
 
Missouri.edu
 
Pharmacological Reviews
 
Food can make you ill- References on Chocolate
 
Copal- Cocoa Producers Alliance
 
Creativechocolates.com
 
Dentistry.com
 
Healthcentersonline.com
 
Hypertensionaha.org