According to Chef Carole Bloom, a chocolate expert and award-winning author of Chocolate Lover's Cookbook for Dummies, All About Chocolate, and Truffles, Candies, and Confections, there are many ways to incorporate cocoa and chocolate into a diet in a way that enhances the flavor of healthy foods.

Some suggestions include:

• Sprinkle cocoa powder on popcorn, warm and cold coffee drinks, low fat or non fat plain yogurt mixed with fresh fruit, and baked pears, apples or other fruit
• Mix small bite-size pieces of dark chocolate in with a homemade trail mix of nuts and dried fruits
• Add chocolate shavings or cocoa nibs to fresh fruit cups, salad greens, or cold cereals such as granola or warm cereals such as oatmeal or cream of wheat
• Dip fresh or dried fruits such as strawberries, bananas or dried apricots into chocolate
• Add chocolate chips into easy to bake vegetable breads or cakes such as banana bread, pumpkin bread, or carrot cake
• Incorporate into sauces such as Mexican mole and use with chicken, fish, turkey or pork
   

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Recipes from:

• Barry-Callebaut
• Guittard Chocolate
• The Hershey Company
• Mars/Masterfoods
• Nestle
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