The choc-a-holics have been out in force asking a whole bunch of questions about low carb chocolate. People have seen low carb high fat trail mixes online and a lot of them contain low carb chocolate chips. Are you allowed low carb chocolate on the LCHF diet and if so is it a case of the darker the better?

Dark chocolate with about 85% cocoa is fantastic, very healthy. The more bitter, the better. It’s got be really bitter. If it tastes sweet you should worry, because again – the same story – you’ll go back to sweet chocolate. There is a lot of evidence that cocoa is good, but it mustn’t be sweet, it has to be bitter. And if you can eat bitter chocolate, that is really healthy and stick with it but as I have said the chocolate must contain no sugar and no carbohydrate. READ MORE