Healthy Valentine's Day! Chocolate's flavonoids, theobromine and other components go right to the heart.(Ingredients) From: Food Processing | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: Feder, David | COPYRIGHT 2005 Putman Media, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

With most chocolate consumed from Christmas through Easter, by the time spring is in full bloom--150 million chocolate Santa Clauses, 36 million boxes of chocolate hearts and 90 million Easter bunnies later--many of us feel at least some measure of chocolate-covered guilt. But like those aforementioned confections, the guilt may turn out hollow. At least partly.

While it's true overindulgence in any sweet is not a healthy thing, cocoa and chocolate are staking out more a...