I dont know why but everytime i drink raw chocolate, i have cravings for chocolate all the time. IM addicted. Im finding myself buying any chocolate in the super market and can eat almost a whole block even though my diet is prominantly raw now?(eating all raw does mak em somewhat hungrier too, especially around monthly). Anyhow its my intuition telling me its the raw cacao thats giving me strong cravings. I dont know how to stop? Whats going on am i missing nutrients , does raw chocolate make you addicted to any chocolate. Im a chocolate addict worser then ever. Now my favourite chocolates are coles belgium and nestle smarties. Could it also be heightened taste buds. Whats going on do i need mroe chromium. Im going crazy in bad and good chocolate heaven. How do i stop lol.

Im asking this because i ate half a bod block and got anxiety. I do mostly eat fruits in the morning. BUt if i dont have my chocolate hit i go crazy now. Hubby is also upset about it.

The only reason im having cacao the raw brand is for the magnesium. I run out of magneisum pretty quickly and it helps that side of things. I know supermarket chocolate doesnt have magnesium. The foods i wanted to stay away from im eating more off and looking uglier then ever. Im getting mroe wrinkles and i still cant stop. I look more like a coffee drinker then a raw foodist hehe. Im overloading on bad sugar too . My skin is looking ruddy and im getting depressed because im aging before my time. I never knew supermarket chocolate could do this and now i know but i just cant keep away from it i know i need help.

I have given up dairy the only dairy im eating is chocolate. Im serious you would definately think i need to go to chocoholics annonymous when you see how i down it even after i eat a salad lol. I was also thinking because my body wants magneisum it could be wanting more chocolate for that reason alone. But since im eating bad chocolate its not getting it but wanting it. If i dont sound like im confused now i hope you get what i mean anyhow hehe.

Thankyou. I know about nuts and seeds but im trying to lose weight and i find nuts and seeds i need to eat in large quanities to get what i seek. Yet for daily recommended i dont know if im getting enough from those foods alone. I drink green smoothies almost everyday. I still get spasms and when i eat cacao the spasms stops. So this is why i stuck with it.

Thanks Sandy,

I remember reading it was addictive but never thought too much on it.

Thanks louko i will try the suggestion of more greens and fruits.

I find the best way for me to stop eating a food is to find out exactly what is wrong with it.  so lets get started.

On the Cadbury website I found the ingredients for their most popular bar:

Dairy Milk 250.00g
Legal description: ‘Dairy Milk’ Milk Chocolate
Ingredients: Full Cream Milk, Sugar, Milk Solids, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifiers (Soya Lecithin, 476), Flavours. May contain traces of nuts. Cocoa Solids 26%, Milk Solids 27%

Hmmm... looks alright hey if you weren't so adverse to dairy.

But what exactly is a 'Milk Solid'?

This is from the patent website of the process:
"A hydrolyzed proteinaceous milk solid is prepared from a heat treated skim milk liquor which contains denatured whey proteins as well as casein proteins. The solid is prepared by rapidly heating the skim milk liquor to a temperature above 170° F. and adding acid to the heated skim milk liquor to adjust the pH of the liquor to a pH of about 4.7. The heated pH adjusted liquor is aged for a time period during which coagulation and agglomeration of whey and casein proteins, carbohydrates and ash takes place forming a plurality of coagulum suspended in the remaining whey liquid. The coagula is separated from the whey liquid, cooled, dewatered and dried. The resulting dry solid is treated with a caustic agent as, for instance, sodium hydroxide, in a solid phase reaction to yield the hydrolyzed proteinaceous milk solid. "

Ok so in lamens terms, 25% of this chocolate bar is created by:
1. Heating milk  - and the patent even states that its denaturing the proteins!
2. Adding an ACID to send the pH down
3. Drying the sludge and letting it 'Age' in other words rot. On top of this sludge forms a top layer of crud which also they admit to having it contain 'ash' amongst the denatured proteins and fermented alcoholised carbs.
4. This sludge is then scraped off, and dried.
5. Because it is so acid they then have to neutralize it to alkaline for human consumption so they had sodium hydroxide to form the resulting solid.

Do you seriously want to be eating this horrific substance?

I guess it puts the happy marketable term 'Milk Solid' in another light for consumers don't it!

Oh and before i go "Flavours" is another happy marketable term for excitotoxins which causes neurological brain damage.

I too find a vast difference in the way my body reacts to Cadbury's vs raw chocolate. Raw chockie I can just have a small amount and leave it at that and regular chocolate, not just cadbury's but any milk chocolate really, I can't stop!

Thanks Jim for that breakdown. Casein, I read somewhere is highly addictive. I can't remember if it's classed as an opiate or not but it's very, very addictive. If this is where your body is used to getting it's casein hit then it's no wonder it's hard for you to stop.

I have the same thing with cheese. Blerk. So I do know how you feel. I managed to get rid of a lot of my addictions using EFT. Good stuff! Have you tried it? When I was craving chocolate at the beginning of my raw journey I ate a lot of brownies. Raw ones. The recipe I posted in the recipes section somewhere. It took me 10 minutes to make it and worked wonders.

xoxoxo

Hey RC-just stay strong girl and keep your eyes firmly focused on that light at the end of the tunnel!

And also...Thanks Jim! I think you may have just single-handedly squashed my own chocolate addiction which likes to flare up on occassion with that delightful breakdown of the how this 'treat' blindly consumed by many is created!