Nutritional Values of Chocolate

The nutritional values of chocolate depends on the percentage of cocoa in it but this does not deviate much from 550 calories per 100 grams, irrespective of type.

The percentage of carbohydrates varies from 35% in dark chocolate with 75% or more cocoa solids, 50% of milk chocolate, fats vary respectively from 30 to 40%, the rest is protein, the percentage of water is very low .

Many supporters of low carb diets and the glycemic index fanatics argue that the dark chocolate with high cocoa is better because it has a low glycemic index.
This news was picked up by who want to promote the chocolate, spreading the false news that dark chocolate is not fattening.

In a proper diet is very difficult to introduce more than 20 grams of chocolate per day (because of the low satiety index of the contribution of calories and very high) does not make sense to choose a chocolate with high cocoa only because it has a low Glycemic index, sufficient to make two accounts to understand that 20 g chocolate 80% cocoa contain 7 grams of carbohydrates, compared with 10 of those 45%, a minimal difference that can not affect the mechanism of insulin.

The calories of chocolate (more than 100 per 20 grams), those that affect the balance of calories and then the maintenance of weight.