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Crazy Trend: Bacon with Chocolate

Yes, really: Chocolate Bacon Barks are all the rage. How to make the chocolate bar with bacon and sea salt yourself.

Do you love bacon? Do you love chocolate? Then we have the perfect treat for you: a chocolate bar with crispy pieces of bacon and sea salt!

Sounds terrible? Yes, we thought so too when we stumbled across the keyword “Paleo Bacon Bark” on the Pinterest social network. Because even in the Paleo diet, the bacon chocolate bars are all the rage. Whether the Stone Age people sat by the fire and nibbled on chocolate bars with bacon is an open question; For those of you who are open to unusual taste experiences, we don’t want to withhold the recipe for the “Chocolate Bacon Bark”.

By the way, if you think a little longer about the bars made of bacon and chocolate, you will notice that the combination of chocolate and savory is not that unusual. Think chili con carne, traditionally topped with dark chocolate. Or Mexican chicken in chili chocolate sauce.

Make paleo bacon bark yourself

Ingredients

  • 100 grams of dark chocolate
  • a handful of chopped almonds
  • 2 tbsp crispy fried, degreased, and finely diced bacon
  • coarse sea salt for sprinkling

Preparation

  1. Chop the chocolate and melt in a water bath
  2. Add chopped almonds and bacon, reserving a teaspoon of bacon
  3. Pour the chocolate mixture into a casserole dish lined with baking paper
  4. When the mixture has set a little, sprinkle over the sea salt and the remaining bacon
  5. Put in the fridge for 2 hours
  6. Break the bacon chocolate into chunks

Enjoy your meal!

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French Fries Just as Healthy as Almonds? New Study With Crazy Results

French fries are a popular food for young and old. However, they are generally considered unhealthy. But are they really? A new nutrition study surprises with its results.

French fries are unhealthy fattening foods – what is the truth of the claim?

In the research literature, regular consumption of fries has been associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. According to the researchers, however, there is little evidence for this assumption. Research leader David Allison and his team therefore wanted to carry out a study that would establish a clear connection between physical health and regular consumption of French fries.

The researchers compared two randomly divided groups of 90 adults each. In one group, the test persons consumed a portion of fries with 300 calories as a snack every day for one month. The control group received a 300-calorie serving of almonds instead. Otherwise, the subjects did not change their lifestyle or diet. Almonds were chosen because they are considered healthy and are not associated with any negative health risks.

The researchers focused their attention on changes in the subjects’ body fat mass and weight. Blood sugar and insulin production were also monitored. At the end of the month, the values ​​in both groups were “comparable and not clinically significant”.

Result: French fries contain more carbohydrates than almonds

At the end of the month, the researchers were able to determine that the group that ate French fries every day had no values ​​outside the normal range. Almonds and fries therefore showed no differences in terms of the health of the subjects. In the French fries group, there were only higher temporary peak values ​​for blood sugar and insulin. According to the research team, this is due to the different proportion of carbohydrates in the two foods.

Study co-author Daniel Smith therefore sees the demonization of fries – and individual foods in general – as unjustified. It makes much more sense to take a close look at a person’s entire diet in relation to their health risk and also to take factors such as daily exercise into account. According to this, fries are no more unhealthy than almonds and you can shake off the guilty conscience with the next portion of fries.

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