the main reason why chocolate is not a functional food, a medical product, something to eat lots of every day - is one simple reason - chocolate is polluted with too much sugar. Yeah, it gets rid of the bitterness, but at what cost to the health of your body?
| Chocolate brand | Serving (grams) | Fat (grams) | Sugar (grams) | Percent Sugar/Fat | |
| Dagoba 74% Dark | 56 | 24 | 14 | 68% | |
| Dove Silky Smooth Dark | 42 | 14 | 19 | 78% | |
| Endangered Species 88% Dark | 43 | 20 | 5 | 58% | |
| Equal Exchange 71% Dark | 37 | 16 | 10 | 70% | |
| Equal Exchange Organic Hot Cocoa | 17 | 0 | 11 | 64% | |
| Ferrero's Nutella | 37 | 12 | 21 | 89% TOXIC | |
| Ghiradelli Double Hot Chocolate | 35 | 1.5 | 27 | 81% | |
| Godiva 70% Dark | 40 | 17 | 11 | 70% | |
| Godiva 31% Milk | 40 | 13 | 20 | 82% | |
| Green & Blacks Organic Dark | 35 | 15 | 9 | 68% | |
| Hershey's Special Dark | 21 | 12 | 21 | 80% | |
| Hershey's 2%-Fat Chocolate Milk | 38 | 5 | 25 | 78% | |
| Lindt 70% Dark | 40 | 19 | 12 | 78% | |
| Mars' 3 Musketeers Bar | 54 | 7 | 36 | 80% | |
| Nestle's Nesquick Powder | 32 | 1 | 26 | 84% | |
| Newman's Own 70% Super Dark | 64 | 28 | 16 | 68% | |
| Scharffen Berger 82% Extra Dark | 43 | 19 | 8 | 63% | |
| Swiss Miss Dark Hot Chocolate | 35 | 3.5 | 19 | 64% | |
| Theo Chocolate 70% Organic Dark | 42 | 16 | 12 | 66% | |
| AVERAGE S/F = 75% |
According to the latest scientifc and medical research, sugar is more addictive, more deadly and more socially harmful than cocaine. In the years to come, as this evidence becomes more extensive, it will be ammunition to tort lawyers to sue industrial manufactuers of chocolate for their use of sugar, to the same extent that they sued tobacco manufacturers for their use of the even more deadly, addictive, and harmful nicotine. There will be no choice but to remove the sugar.
| Commonly
Consumed Substance |
Addictiveness | Deaths (U.S., per year) |
Lethality | Treatment Costs (U.S., per year) |
Social Harm |
| Nicotine | Most Addictive | 480,000 (2007, CDC) |
Most Deadly | $300+ Billion
(2014, CDC) |
Most Harmful |
| Alcohol | ↓ | 88,000 (2008, CDC) | ↓ | $223 Billion
(2006, CDC) |
↓ |
| Sugar* | ↓ | 69,000
(diabetes)
(2000, ADA) |
↓ | $245 Billion
(2013, ADA) |
50,000+
(LE Amputations) (2007, ADA) |
| Sugary Drinks | ↓ | 25,000 (2015, Tufts) | ↓ | ↓ | |
| Oxycontin & legal opioids | ↓ | 16,000 (2013, CDC) | ↓ | < $25 Billion (est. DoJ) | ↓ |
| Cocaine* | ↓ | 5,000 (2010, NIH) | ↓ | < $5 Billion (est.) | ↓ |
| ↓ | ↓ | ↓ | |||
| Caffeine | ↓ | < 100 (2013, CDC) | ↓ | < $1 million (est.) | ↓ |
| Our Herbal Extract | Not Addictive | 0 | Not Deadly | $0 million | Not Harmful |
"*": sugar is listed as more addictive than cocaine, for two reasons: social cost correlations (i.e., the more addictive a consumed substance is, the more deaths and treatment costs people will suffer for the pleasure, which is why nicotine is the world's most deadly and addictive narcotic in the SCoND sense), and scientific research. Please reference the following scientific studies: "Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward", M. Lenoir, et al., PLoS ONE, August 2007, journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000698; "Evidence for sugar addiction: behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake", N. Avena et al., Neurosci Biobehav Review, 2008 v1, 20-39, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/; "Animal models of sugar and fat bingeing: relationship to food addiction and increased body weight", N. Avena et al., Methods Mol Biol, v 829, 2012, 351-65, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=22231826; "Food addictions to fat and sugar similar to cocaine and heroin in brain response",National Monitor, Beth Balen, 12 December 2014 (referencing article in the Am. Journal of Clinical Nutrition, http://natmonitor.com/2014/12/12/food-addictions-to-fat-and-sugar-similar-to-cocaine-and-heroin-in-brain-response/; "Differences in bingeing behavior and cocaine reward following intermittent access to sucrose, glucose or fructose solutions", JM Rorabaugh et al., Neuroscience, June 2015, 213-220, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26079112; "Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit", SH Ahmed et al.,Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care, July 2013, 434-9, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23719144; and "Sugary drinks linked to 180,000 deaths a year", Gitanjali Singh et al., Circulation, June 2015, http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2015/06/25/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.010636.