No, it is not &quot;chocolate as in cacao&quot;. The study says this:<p>&quot;Most clinical trials have used dark chocolate as the source of cocoa flavanols. In 2012, the distribution share of chocolate in the United States by favourite chocolate type was 57% milk chocolate, 35% dark chocolate, and 8% white chocolate [1]. We can therefore make the assumption that the majority of chocolate consumed in this sample was dark or milk, both containing cocoa flavanols to varying degrees&quot;<p>But given this, another recent study comes in my mind:
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(which just tells that sugar kills you with or without cacao)