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Raw cocoa beans, shown here nestled in their pods, contain huge amounts of heart-healthy flavanols. Commercially processing the beans to make cocoa powder strips away most of those compounds. Mars, however, determined how to retain them to make flavanol-rich cocoa for research trials—and for what it's now marketing as a heart-healthy snack. Credit: USDA
Found in: Nutrition

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