The consumer is more demanding every day and demands from the large supermarket chains solutions adapted to their aspirations, in this case nutritional. In times of healthy eating, foods with prebiotics (they act as nutrients for the human microbiota) have won the battle.
Mercadona has realized this, which has made a novelty available to its customers to make those who follow a healthy diet and who seek their food, as the famous Greek doctor Hippocrates said, to be their medicine: “Let your medicine be your food, and food your medicine.”
Consequently, the Juan Roig supermarkets have just launched a Chocolate black squire with an ambitious 92% cocoa, suitable for lovers of the most orthodox flavor and the most sophisticated palates.
With a 0% sweeteners and added sugars, this product is sweetened by 6% with chicory fiber. As @nutricionisto shares on his social networks, it is a “beneficial prebiotic for intestinal bacteria”.
For the uninitiated, chicory is an herb, once cultivated by the Egyptians for medicinal purposes and used for its beneficial propertiesespecially digestion and its contribution in vitamins, tannins (which help purify the intestine), iron, fiber, potassium, calcium and magnesium.
One of its most widespread uses is as coffee substitute by infusion of its root. This slightly bitter plant is, in fact, the star of an iconic salad in Navarra, where it is consumed with a little garlic, oil and vinegar.
Manufactured for Mercadona in the Portuguese Vila do Conde by the Imperial chocolate company, this chocolate includes among its ingredients cocoa paste and butterdefatted cocoa powder and aromas.
Due to its nature (and like the rest of the chocolates), it is a highly caloric product, 608 calories per 100 grams, but with good amount of protein (10 grams) and dietary fiber (19 grams), as well as sugars (0.9 grams).
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Apart from these novelties, Mercadona has added as a novelty to its linear fresh pasta stuffed with ham and cheese. Regarding this product, the nutritionist points out that the ham is not of better quality and that the pasta could be whole wheat, so he advises accompanying it with more vegetables.
Dark Chocolate With Sugar Free Forest Fruits/STEVIA. / 125 grams
Another novelty is the soy and mango yogurt, to which, unfortunately, sugar has been added. In this case, the nutritionist advises adding fruit to natural yogurts.
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