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WhyCarnivore.com | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I avoid all of it because sugar is bad for humans
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Diyana | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You don't have to have chocolate with sugar! 👀
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WhyCarnivore.com | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Chocolate is sugar. Even the most raw, organic, 100% cocoa just turns into sugar in your bloodstream
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Diyana | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Really?!? What about coffee? 👀
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asourcefamiliarwiththematter | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes and no
Dark chocolate has a substantial fat content
Really dark chocolate (the listed category maxes out at 85% but darker is widely available) has much more fat than sugar

During my transition from keto to animal based to carnivore, I stopped eating dark chocolate because of the oxolate toxicity (I started getting rashes whenever I ate chocolate) rather than because of the sugar

https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/170273/wt1/1
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e9cfa0b9 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So the the 64g of fat and 11g of protein in my 100g chocolate bar will turn into sugar in my blood.
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e9cfa0b9 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Can't be that bad if it our body's primary source fuel is glucose and some of our organs can't live without it.