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SURPRISING Health Benefits of Raw Cacao Powder Vs. Cocoa Powder! In this video I point out the stark difference between raw cacao Vs cocoa powder, the mystery behind where to find it in stores, and the marketing ploys they try to pull over on you. I dispel a huge amount of confusion surrounding the two different types of chocolate as well as dark chocolate bars... Get your popcorn ready!!
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So it's funny, I'm over here at Whole Foods and I just went crazy looking for the raw cacao powder
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because today's video obviously it's going to be on the topic of the difference between the cocoa
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and the raw cacao powder. So it turns out and I have no idea why they do this but the cocoa powder
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is in the baking section of Whole Foods whereas the raw cacao powder is in, if you can zoom in
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on the sign, bulk foods, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, energy drinks, etc. etc. Very, very odd. Makes me
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want to ask the manager why these two are in two completely separate aisles. I think I know why
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though and I'm going to go into that in a minute. Unfortunately, a lot of people are very, very
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oblivious about the difference between cocoa powder and raw cacao powder, right? Including some of my
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clients and I often get asked, hey, Trainer Laz, you know, what's the difference? Is there a difference
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You know, what should I go with? Cacao? Cocoa? So the difference with the switcheroozy, is that a word
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Switcheroozy? The switcheroozy with the vowels. Cocoa, O-A, and then cacao, A-O. We're going to start
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with the cocoa, O-A. So the cocoa powder was once actually raw cacao powder, right? Before it got
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processed, which is in high heat, it loses all of its essential nutrients and vitamins and
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also the most important one, the antioxidants. Antioxidant properties in raw cacao powder are
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very, very high, which makes it an essential superfood. So that's the deal with the cocoa
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Now, the raw cacao powder, which is chocolate in its purest form, right? What you need to know is
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that it's retained all of its essential nutrients and vitamins. It's a superfood, extremely high in
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antioxidants. It's actually good in the sense that it helps elevate your mood, controls blood pressure
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It helps with a myriad of health issues, right? So that's basically the difference between the two
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cocoa and cacao. Now, something I need to point out in regards to the dark chocolate bars
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Here's the issue with the supposed dark chocolate cacao bars. So on the front, you'll notice
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that it says cacao, 85%. You flip it to the backside and the ingredients, it says
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cocoa. Now that's clearly a marketing ploy that a lot of companies use to get away with the fact
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that they want to fool you in a sense that it's cacao when in fact it's cocoa. And that's the
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reason why it doesn't say cacao in the ingredients. It'll say it on the front because legally they're
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able to get away with that. So you'll usually see not just with this particular bar, but in others
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you'll notice in big print on the front, cacao, and then in the back, cocoa. Okay. So beware of that
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That's basically what you need to know between the two, the cacao AO and the cocoa OA. And then
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also the slick marketing ploy that the companies like using with the bars. And not only with the
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bars, but the raw cacao chips as well. If you notice when you're in a health food store
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whole foods, sprouts, wherever you may be, flip the package. It'll say cocoa. I'm going to leave
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you with one last thing here. So what you could do with raw cacao powder is get added in your
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oatmeal, add a little cinnamon, maybe a few drops of stevia, and you are set. It'll taste
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exceptionally delicious. My daughter for one loves it. As a matter of fact, she's going to
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give you her take on the oatmeal as well as the protein packed pancakes that we make that we also
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add the raw cacao. She's like itching, itching to flip the camera. The protein packed pancakes that
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we add the raw cacao powder to, and not to mention the J and G fitness, healthy oatmeal cookies that
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I make with the raw cacao powder with stevia and a little bit of cinnamon and whatnot. She loves
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all three of them. So we're going to flip the camera. So good. I don't even like, let me hold
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the camera there. Okay. Um, most kids don't like healthy things, but these don't even taste healthy
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They are, but they don't taste healthy. They're delicious. Yeah. So, you know, you heard it from
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the, uh, you know, the videography girl here herself. She has that oatmeal almost every day
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As a matter of fact, she had it today, right? Sometimes we'll alternate between that. Maybe
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some healthy Ezekiel bread with some peanut butter and some homemade, uh, delicious, uh
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jelly that we make. You know, there's a lot that I like to discuss in addition to what we've already
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discussed regarding the, you know, raw cacao powder and such, but I'm going to save all of that juicy
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