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My name is David Wolfe.

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I was born near New York city in America,

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currently residing in Ontario Canada.


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I am a renegade nutritionist,
I am renegade superfoodist

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and infopreneur,

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but above all of that

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I am gastronome.

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I explore unique foods that are available
to us all over the world.

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In 2002 I founded, as part of my work,

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a nonprofit organization

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The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, 
whose goal is to plant

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18 billion fruit trees 
and nut trees all over the planet.

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We're at about 200,000 right now.

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And, that same year
that we founded this organization,

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a wonderful organization 
filled with amazing people,

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I ran into the most incredible
fruit and nut tree in the world.

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It is the source

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of the Earth's favorite food.

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That's right, the population of the world 
has one favorite food.

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And of course, it's chocolate.

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Now, in my exploration of this
I stumbled into it

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because I was a health food fanatic.

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I never ate chocolate
since I was fifteen years old.

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This was about when I was maybe 32.

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I stumbled into 
this form of chocolate here.

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This is raw chocolate.

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This is chocolate 
in its unique original form,

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a form that is called --

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by the British it is the slang word "coco."

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But it's really cacao. 
That's the real word.

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And is sometimes called a bean, 
but it's really a nut.

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It is the most widely eaten
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that nobody actually eats.

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I was in Hawaii with some friends.

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We were peeling them. They started 
showing up in our smoothies.

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We'd get these coconuts, 
we'd break up coconuts

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and make these incredible drinks.

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We called them superfoods smoothies.

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And we started adding them to these
smoothies and I asked my friend one day,

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I said, "What is this?" 
I didn't know what it was.

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And he said, 
"Oh, just peel the next one, and eat it."

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So, I did eat it. 
And that's what it looks like on the inside.

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And, at that exact moment

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that I ate that food, 
I was touched by the spirit

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of chocolate.

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A food that's archetypically connected

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with winning the golden ticket,

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that's connected with prosperity.

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I was taken on a rocket ride

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across the universe

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in a voyage of discovery 
that has brought me right to you

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at this present moment, right now.

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This food is filled 
with legends and lore,

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which I summarized along with
scientific data and recipe information

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and all kinds of great stuff

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in my book "Naked chocolate,"

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which became the sourcebook 
or a reference book

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for people who are interested
in raw chocolate,

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because all the chocolate we've ever had
has been processed

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through high heat and machines.

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And we thought, 
maybe we should just eat it

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cold processed -- is there a difference.

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And that's we're gonna explore here

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as we delve into the astonishing truth

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about the world's greatest food.

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Chocolate comes from the Mayan lands 
and ancient Mayan farms.

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Chocolate is a Mayan word.

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The word "cacao" is one of the
oldest words

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in use in the world today.

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Some people estimate that 
that word is 15,000 years old.

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The oldest word in the world.

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It was brought to the West 
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by Hernando Cortez.

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He was the conqueror of Mexico. 
It all happened by an accident,

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because Montezuma, 
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of Mexico at that time,

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was in a state of civil war
in Mexico City.

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And when Cortez showed up there 
in 1521, there was --

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they believe that

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Cuauhtémoc himself had come to
the great city.

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Christopher Columbus, 
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he thought it was almond.

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And this was money for them. 
This is what their currency was.

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Today we use coins. 
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It was their money.

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And he saw -- somebody dropped
some cacao beans on a little boat.

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And they all jumped for it.

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Columbus wrote that these people 
are crazy about almond.

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Montezuma was known to drink 
50 cups of chocolate a day.

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It was always consumed as a drink.

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And there you see the cup

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that Montezuma was known to drink out of,
or one that's similar to that.

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Anyway, how do you turn this bean, 
this nut, into a drink?

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Well, you'll have to break it open,
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get all of those cacao beans into a beverage, 
which we'll see later.

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But before we do that,

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we've gotta look at where 
the chocolate comes from.

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This is the chocolate tree.

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And yes, money does grow on trees.

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Still today the number one 
cash crop in the world.

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And it's the best crop

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for keeping indigenous people
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so that we don't cut down
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Every time you choose to buy chocolate,


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organic chocolate, and or, 
what I prefer -- raw chocolate,

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you are voting with your money 
to save the rain forest,

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and it is a vote that counts.

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It's the best vote you can have.

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It grows in a little pod.

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What an interesting looking plant.

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It grows right off the trunk.

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The fruit does.

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And inside --

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there's the flower.

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This is the glory of chocolate.

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Look at the different colors there.

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Inside we see this.

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These are the cacao nuts, 
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that all chocolate is made out of inside.

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And around each nut is a white pulp.

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And that pulp was traditionally 
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where chocolate is from, 
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But men ate the nut on the inside.

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This is what that pulp looks like.

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That's what we call 'The best day ever'.

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When you have that much chocolate, 
real chocolate,

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original chocolate, raw chocolate,

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the fruit than nut, 
the pulp, everything,

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but you gotta watch out, 
because all the creatures in the forest eat it.

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it is known that if you have a forest
with 140 species of different birds

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then when you put a cacao orchard in,

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and you put it right into the jungle;

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no trees are taken out, 
nothing is cut down.

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You take your little baby cacao plants
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you put them right in the forest,

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and that will attract at least 
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Birds love to hang out
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It comes back to this;
the coin of the realm,

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the great cacao bean. 
The secret inside.

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We had an amazing discovery early on.

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In that, that cacao bean, the thing 
that all chocolate is made out of,

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is the highest antioxidant food
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This was a discovery. 
This was not known ten years ago.

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It is known now.

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Chocolate contains 15 times 
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as wild blueberries,

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20 times the antioxidants 
as what's in green tea,

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30 times the antioxidants
as red wine.

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All of those pigments of color, 
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that beautiful purple color

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that's the antioxidants; 
it's actually the color.

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And the brown of chocolate 
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that protect yourselves and actually 
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Listen to this:

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It is known now that chocolate is the number
one longevity food in the world.

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That is known.

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It is the number one food for your heart 
according to the research,

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for your heart.

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It's also a great way

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to party and have a good time 
without a hangover.

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Chocolate grows across 
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what we call the tropical belt 
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from about 20 degrees north latitude 
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In that belt. 
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Venezuela, Ecuador.

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Most people now believe that chocolate 
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the Orinoco river basin of Venezuela.

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That's where the Spanish
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even hundreds of thousands 
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but no people,

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500 years ago.

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I searched all over the planet. 
I visited shamans

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asking them 
what they thought about chocolate.

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This shaman in the Amazon told me 
that you can take the cacao tree bark,

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It releases the gel in 24 hours,
and when you rub that in your scalp,

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it cures male pattern baldness.

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I'm an infopreneur.

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My eyes went into dollar signs, 
when I heard that.

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You mean, there is a product that
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that comes from the chocolate tree?

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And we're researching this right now.

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First and foremost I am a researcher.

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That's what I love to do, I love to study,

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research and look into the data.

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Chocolate is the number one food

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in magnesium of any food in the world,

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that is the number one mineral
deficiency in the Western world.

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Also, chocolate is the highest 
natural source of iron,

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the highest natural source of manganese

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and the highest natural source of chromium

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of any major food in the world.

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These are very important minerals 
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They're very important for
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and, of course, magnesium de-stresses us.

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Could we use that?
I think so.

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Chocolate is also extraordinarily rich

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in phosphorus, zinc and copper.

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Zinc and copper for healthy nervous system 
and phosphorus for bone.

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We always hear about calcium, 
calcium, calcium.

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Phosphorus, 
we need that for healthy bones.

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And this is why chocolate 
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If you recall,

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there was a great book written years ago,
which we're gonna look at

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"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

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And the Oompa Loompa's had brilliant
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because chocolate

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is great for your teeth.

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Chocolate toothpaste is coming.

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This is what the cacao bean looks like 
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when you break it 
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And those are called nibs,

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and these products are available 
here in Finland now.

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And all over the world.

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Raw chocolate products -- 
in fact this industry is now

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over a hundred million dollar industry.

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And it all came from one moment

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when I bit into raw cacao bean.
And for the last 8.5 years,

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I've been proselytizing 
about the power of chocolate

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all over the place.

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In fact it never stops. 
Some people complain about that.

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Anyway, iconically chocolate is associated
with wonder and magic.

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And if you see that giant head
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that's an Olmec head.

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They're the ones
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And you can see the bird
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indicating that connection

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between birds 
in that realm and chocolate.

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Chocolate, as I discovered when I was
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is added to guacamole,

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but not process chocolate,

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raw chocolate.

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They take the crushed up nibs 
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Try it at home.

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I was fortunate I grew up in California
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and I was in love with guacamole 
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What an amazing thing 
to have your cuisine expanded.

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And that's what we're doing
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I got so into chocolate,
I started growing chocolate.

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This is my chocolate nursery in Hawaii.

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I have a farm in Canada, 
I have a farm in Hawaii.

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And the purpose of that farm in Hawaii 
is to grow chocolate and explore

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the mystery and magic 
of this great plant.

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I grew that chocolate tree from seed.

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Such an amazing amount of learning 
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You can learn more from a garden 
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then you can from a book.

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I was very, very excited to explore.


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Maybe there's even more magic here
than we know about.

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Now, I have continued to discover 
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anandamide, for example, 
the bliss chemical is present in chocolate.

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The love chemicals, 
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that are damaged by heat,

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but entirely present 
in raw chocolate.

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There's at least seven of them 
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of love, happiness

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and fulfillment that chocolate gives us.
It's from a chemistry that's in the plant.

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This is the book. 
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I do want to mention
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there was a most amazing citing

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that occured for me 
when I was in Amsterdam

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many years ago.
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[You] can guess what happens there.

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"Oompa-Loompas!" 
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"Oompa-Loompas! 
Imported direct from Loompaland,"

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said Mr Wonka proudly.

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"There's no such place," said Mrs Salt.

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"Excuse me, dear lady, but.." 
"Mr Wonka," cried Mrs Salt,

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"I am a teacher of geography."

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"Then you'll know all about it,"
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"And oh, what a terrible country it is! 
Nothing but thick jungles infested by

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the most dangerous beasts
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hornswogglersand snozzwangers 
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A whangdoodle would eat 
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and come galloping back
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When I went out there, I found the little 
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They had to live in tree houses 
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and the hornswogglers 
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They were practically
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And they were living on green caterpillars, 
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and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment 
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looking for anything to mix with
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The one food that they longed for 
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was the cacao bean.
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But they couldn't get it.

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An Oompa-Loompa was lucky 
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But oh, how they craved them. 
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and talk about them all day.

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You had only to mention the word "cacao" 
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and he would start dribbling 
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Listen closely: "The cacao bean," 
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"which grows on the cacao tree,

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is the thing
that all chocolate is made from."

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Roald Dahl knew, 
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the great book 
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

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Remember the Oompa Loompas.

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This is an elf with a cacao pod

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but the sculpture is 3000 years old. 


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It is intrinsic to the magic
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In Mexico, this is where the great
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it was always served as a drink, 
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we have blenders. 
It makes it so much easier.

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You can upgrade

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your smoothie, your protein shake 
by adding a dash of raw cacao

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and bringing forth
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just as they did in Ancient Mexico.

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On the Mexican 100 peso note, 
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right there next to Xochipilli
are actual cacao recipes,

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iconically represented.

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We've innovated and brought forth now 
an entirely new cuisine,

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brought to the greatest chefs 
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revive some of the great additives 
of chocolate,

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creating these wonderful 
and delightful recipes.

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The one question that I get more than
any other, after all of this is:

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Is it possible to o.d. on chocolate?

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and the answer is: Yes.

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Thank you so much. I am David Wolfe. 
Have the best day ever.