Food Theory: Skip the Salad. Eat Some Chocolate!

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Theorists, if you have the choice, would you rather eat a ton of spinach or chocolate? Which one do you think is BETTER for you? Well, you may just be WRONG! Today I'm diving into the science behind what makes our food "good" for us and why you should potentially be substituting that green stuff for some sweet, rich chocolate. Let's go!


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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Brittany Leigh Turnbull
Editors: Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi,Forrest Lee, Ryan Foley • KingCorphish and Jerika (NekoOnigiri)
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[TeamLarry]

based on the title alone i can safely say i like this video

[eliabs.hernandez]

I once entered a restaurant, and on the wall it said “Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a tree. That makes it a plant. Chocolate is salad.”

[ilenadelanghe]

Me, teaching myself to prefer salad over chocolate:
Matpat coming in with this food theory:

[VoidKing]

MatPat: *makes it **_very_** clear he isn’t great at cooking*
Also MatPat: *starts a spectacular food channel*

[Octorocker]

3:20 funnily enough, it's considered improper to use a pencil in STEM, and it was good protocol to always use pen. The logic was that it prevented people from falsifying/fudging results. So you'd write results in pen, and if you made a mistake, you'd cross it out with a single line to keep the previous note legible, while notating the date, time, and reason for the crossout above it.

[oClock]

"Three and a half cups is just one serving of spinach!"
And if you cook that, it becomes the size of a teabag.

[fluffyflareon]

I have an iron deficiency and always mix a ton of spinach into my fruit smoothies for the vitamins and iron (it hardly changes the taste at all!) but now I'm really excited to start making dark chocolate strawberry smoothies, too

[captain_chocolate]

As one who is named after chocolate, consumes alot of chocolate, and who's favorite kind of chocolate is dark chocolate, I strongly support this video.
This video is chocolate approved.

[shivorath]

I feel it's a bit remiss to not mention that if you want chocolate for the health benefits, take great care not to overload the sugar. Straight dark chocolate, like baker's chocolate, is quite healthy but also very bitter. A dark chocolate candy bar is not really the same thing healthwise.

May be obvious, but still feel like it should have been called out at least once.

[Chara-ypzj]

I'm really happy you're covering the facts and strict nutritional value of all these foods we think we know, and I hope you keep going MatPat.

[emileeisanaligator]

I need to know exactly how long it would take to bake Mongo, the giant gingerbread man, from Shrek 2. Thank you.

[Zahoreoz]

I would recommend reading your food labels to see what a serving size of dark chocolate is (at least 72% dark is best) to get a good idea of what nutrients you are getting. Like don't just stop eating veggies just because of this video because odds are the serving size of the chocolate you eat will not match the amount mentioned in the video. That being said, dark chocolate is a great snack that does have health benefits, just don't eat it in place of veggies.

[unitedyoutuber]

Food theory: are both fruit and vegetable smoothies actually worth while making and consuming? And, if so, which ingredients are best to use when concerning people who have conditions, such as I.B.S. (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), and various other medical things?

[chloejohnson]

I watched Popeye cartoons on VHS as a kid. I always thought it was weird that he got his spinach from out of a can, but when you consider he's a sailor, the fact that he only had access to canned spinach is actually the thing that makes the *most* sense in those cartoons.

[denmark]

For the record, when Mat is talking about dark chocolate in this video, he's referring to dark chocolate that has a cocoa content of 75-85%, if I'm not mistaken.

[kuritsai]

i'd like to imagine that matpat just uses facts and logic at the dinner table when he was a kid, so he could just have dessert.

[thewolfleader]

MatPat could tell me everything I've ever eaten was a lie and I would believe him wholeheartedly.

[MidnightMilkMan]

You should do a more in depth theory on super foods. They generally seen as more nutrient rich, it would be good to get the information out there on how nutrient rich they really are and how marketing factors into it.

[MrHabenero]

I'm just going to say it, screw the health benefits, I've always eaten Spinach and Kale because I genuinely think it's delicious.
So I guess my life now is: Eat Chocolate to be Healthy. Eat Spinach and Kale as Junk Food.

[falsettosrevival]

as someone that just learned they have EXTREMELY low iron (like 0.05% of what's normal), this explains EVERYTHING.... I was having some real bad dizzy spells and fainting but counted out the possibility of having low iron because I ate spinach with literally every meal. So glad I stumbled across this video, can't wait to inhale some dark chocolate!! and spinach too i still love spinach