You can’t go to work on a chocolate egg

FOODIES A ND chocoholics will be able to hold their own against chocolate experts by quoting The Bluffer’s Guide To Chocolate. A uthor Neil Davey has addressed five commonly held misconceptions surrounding chocolate:

1. Belgian chocolate is the best in the world. You see it everywhere. The whole ‘Belgian-chocolate-is-the-best-in-theworld’ thing was just great marketing by those cunning Belgians in the 1980s.

2. 70% chocolate is always the best. 70% cocoa solids does not indicate good quality or good flavour. No percentage does. The additional 30% could be made up of vegetable fats, artificial flavourings, sweeteners etc etc.

3. White chocolate is not chocolate. Technically, this is correct. White chocolate contains no cocoa solids and therefore is not chocolate. It is, though, made of cocoa butter plus milk powder and sugar.

4. While it can’t necessarily be proved that chocolate is an aphrodisiac, it does mimic the feelings of falling in love.

5. Chocolate is bad for you. Sadly, no amount of science, bluffed or otherwise, is going to justify a chocolate-heavy diet – you can’t go to work on a Crème egg.

The book is available for Kindle and iPad atA mazon.co.uk and the iBookstore; a print edition is available at www.bluffers.com, book and gift shops at £6.99.