Mai știu două cazuri de pești la state mari, de apă.
11:57 A few days ago i had a terrible craving for chocolate, probably not uncommon this time of the year.
My luck probably was i didn't have any. I had instead a paper jar with baking cocoa i just got from Fred Meyer (Kroger).
I once wanted to buy cocoa powder at Walmart on Dartmouth St. and asked an attendant where it was and she pointed to a whole shelf with chocolate products. Pumped with sugar and fat, none of the products where 100% cocoa. Then i've been wondering around and found the baking cocoa on a different isle, next to other baking products. Labeled as baking, on a different shelf, the cocoa powder is probably ignored by most buyers. However, on the ingredient list of the cocoa i bought at Kroger there is only one ingredient: cocoa. I just read on a site. If it says 100% cocoa and is lighter in color, than it's pure cocoa. Not treated with alkali, in a process that comes from Holland where the great chocolatiers of the world live. Alkali meaning potassium carbonate, the brother of sodium carbonate we all know as baking soda (keep asking myself, why not use it in the kitchen and as antacid cause it's probably much healthier since we all lack some potassium in our diet, not sodium). All that because it is said that natural cocoa is a bit acidic and needs neutralizing in the so call dutch process, which makes the cocoa darker and also kills about half of the nutrients, as they declare.
Thing is, natural cocoa has lots of fat and fiber, and the potassium carbonate gets in that fiber making it potentially candidate for... a sort of natural time release antacid fiber.
I once wanted to buy cocoa powder at Walmart on Dartmouth St. and asked an attendant where it was and she pointed to a whole shelf with chocolate products. Pumped with sugar and fat, none of the products where 100% cocoa. Then i've been wondering around and found the baking cocoa on a different isle, next to other baking products. Labeled as baking, on a different shelf, the cocoa powder is probably ignored by most buyers. However, on the ingredient list of the cocoa i bought at Kroger there is only one ingredient: cocoa. I just read on a site. If it says 100% cocoa and is lighter in color, than it's pure cocoa. Not treated with alkali, in a process that comes from Holland where the great chocolatiers of the world live. Alkali meaning potassium carbonate, the brother of sodium carbonate we all know as baking soda (keep asking myself, why not use it in the kitchen and as antacid cause it's probably much healthier since we all lack some potassium in our diet, not sodium). All that because it is said that natural cocoa is a bit acidic and needs neutralizing in the so call dutch process, which makes the cocoa darker and also kills about half of the nutrients, as they declare.
Thing is, natural cocoa has lots of fat and fiber, and the potassium carbonate gets in that fiber making it potentially candidate for... a sort of natural time release antacid fiber.
And here i get to the reason i'm writing all these. After preparing in that day a "cocoa fix" (like i clandestinely used to do a lot when i was a kid), that is a cocoa based instant desert, made of two spoons of cocoa powder (yes, the so called baking cocoa) in a cup, a bit of sugar to make it edible (again for those who never tasted, pure cocoa is bitter) and turn it into a "mousse" by mixing a few second with a teaspoon with the aid of a few drops of water and of course eating it in ecstasy, i realized the next day it kinda took away the constant pain in stomach area, that i had for such a long time, it's like a friend of mine (trouble is the inflammation started already to spread in other parts of the body, possibly pancreas, lower digestive and even muscles and articulations).
That's why i've been puzzled tonight when i read the ingredients on that jar. Cocoa only. No potassium carbonate. Could it be "the bitter principle" that lives in foods like cocoa, grapefruit, Zyrtec, something that inhibits the parasite that torments me (T.Gondii) that i can't avoid due to environment (picked and threw dog poos again lately, found a fat cat wondering under main door, etc.) or even the opposite, time release acidity.
At the opposite pole. I constantly keep reading many hosannas dedicated to coffee. To me, a 61 year old diabetic, the worse i can do is drink coffee (even decaf), second worse, soda (of course diet). Not even wine or liquor by far does me as bad as coffee or soda. Coffee: Anxiety, irritability, high heart rate, insomnia, dehydration, feeling of fainting, etc.. Could it be in conjunction with the parasite, i don't know.
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