Q: You recommend eating chocolate but not milk chocolate. Should I be eating such high saturated fat? I noticed that chocolate has a high saturated fat content. I bought some baking chocolate that has 16 percent of daily saturated fat allowance in a tablespoon. What should I look for in the product's ingredients?
A: Our recommendation for eating chocolate doesn't give you a lifetime license to splurge on a steady stream of Cocoa Puffs. Chocolate has health benefits from its flavonoids, which are like vitamins but are not essential for living. Even with these benefits, you still should consider limiting real cocoa to an ounce a day so you don't pump yourself full of excess sugar and calories. On the good side, chocolate is the only bad-for-you saturated fat we know of that turns into a good-for-you unsaturated fat in humans.
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