Posts Tagged ‘Coco-luxe’

Coco-luxe Chocolate in San Francisco

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Winter in San Francisco makes for very changing weather. If you’re lucky you’ll find some blue sky, but today it’s mostly alternating showers. It makes it a great day for a stroll down Haight St, where one can dodge the rain and go from store to store. For an invigorating pick-me-up, stop by the Coco-luxe Chocolate boutique. They serve rich Aztec hot chocolates to be consumed at the bar or on the go, and you can get a few boxes of excellent truffles and bars. Check them out at the store or on Savorique.com

Coco-Luxe Chocolate Bar in San Francisco

Coco-Luxe Chocolate Bar in San Francisco

The Hot Chocolate Drink Miracle

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

We at Savorique love Lindsey Partos at Confectionerynews.com. She unveiled a small study in the UK which found that the naturally high content of cocoa flavanols (a class of flavonoids) contained in chocolate drinks “improved cognitive performance in arithmetic tests”. High levels of cocoa flavanols seem to increase cerebral blood flow which in the end improves performance on mentally demanding tasks.
Previous studies have showed cocoa flavanols’ health benefits with heart decease and stress for example.

No longer feel guilty for succumbing to our flavanol-rich hot chocolate collection!