Healthy Chocolate?

During one of my recent Target runs, I discovered a chocolate treat from a company called Brookside. Please note however, that it is distributed by Hershey. Anyway, this treat is awesome! If you want to have your chocolate and eat it too, without feeling too guilty, give these a shot.

Brookside makes three different dark chocolate covered fruits....dark chocolate acai with blueberry, dark chocolate pomegranate and dark chocolate goji with raspberry. All of the fruit selections are antioxidant sources.



I purchased the goji with raspberry and the little balls of chocolate fruit are nice and plump! Nothing like eating a shriveled up Raisinette. The dark chocolate balances out the sweetness/tartness of the fruit and you feel satisfied after just a few. Another great thing is that a serving size is 1/4 cup and has only 180 calories. However 20% of the calories are from saturated fat. There are 25g of sugar and 29g of carbs. All of the nutrition information can be found on their website.

Is it honestly "healthy"? Not really (but better than eating PB cups or your preferred candy bar). You are obviously better off eating a square of dark chocolate and eating fresh raspberries or blueberries for all of your fiber and antioxidants.

If you want to keep these around, my advice is to just be sure that you adhere to the serving size per snack, per day (or less because just a few really do go a long way). Additionally, if you are doing a wine tasting party, these would be great to pair with your deep red selections.

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