Xocai Healthy Gourmet Chocolate is...
The ULTIMATE antioxidant treat. Antioxidants are intimately involved in the prevention of cellular damage, the common pathway for cancer, aging, and a variety of diseases. Unprocessed chocolate has one of the highest antioxidant concentrations of any food (followed closely by the Acai Berry). Xocai chocolate contains more antioxidants per ounce and tastes better than any other product on the market today.

In order to help you truly appreciate the importance of antioxidants, you must first understand why we need antioxidants. Let's start with oxidization.

All body cells use oxygen to function and create energy; oxidization occurs every time that oxygen is burned as a food source for energy. The oxygen mixes with different compounds (proteins, fats, etc.) or molecules to form highly unstable and highly reactive molecules called free radicals. Now the human body likes all of its molecules and atoms to have an even numbers of electrons (the negative part of an atom) but when the oxygen mixes with these molecules it forms an extra electron, giving it an uneven number and resulting in an unstable, free radical. It's important to remember that environmental factors like smoking, radiation, pollution, hypertension (high blood pressure), high fat diet (high cholesterol), elevated blood sugars (diabetes) can also form free radicals.

Always seeking an even number of electrons, these free radicals will try to hook onto other cells in order to steal an electron, causing a major chain reaction. These unstable molecules commonly damage the cell membranes, weaken blood vessel walls, affect immune cells, modify protective enzymes and hinder how the cell functions. They cause a lot of inflammation and even scar tissue from their damage. No wonder there is evidence that more than 200 diseases are caused by free radical damage.

Xocai Healthy Gourmet Chocolate is...
The perfect deliverly system for the antioxidants your body needs while eliminating almost all of the fat and sugar typically found in off-the-shelf chocolate candy products. Antioxidant values are measured by something called ORAC -- Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity -- which was developed by Brunswick Laboratories. Government recommendations for daily intake of protective antioxidants are now set at 5,000 but most nutritionists recommend as much as 10,000 ORAC per day. Xocai Healthy Chocolate products contain at least 9,000 ORAC per serving. Be sure to visit our Products Page for a detailed listing of ingredients and ORAC values for all of the Xocai Chocolate products.