https://selfhacked.com/blog/carob/ Cutting-Edge Solutions For a Better Life Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:20:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 https://selfhacked.com/blog/carob/#comment-109412 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:46:18 +0000 https://selfhacked.com/?p=68808#comment-109412 I’ve been a chocoholic for my entire adult life, but have been forced to cut out all caffeine and its analogs. I replaced Camellia Sinensis with rooibos tea, decaf coffee with chicory and chocolate with carob. I am not ‘thoroughly disappointed’ by its taste, on the contrary. Made with rice-hazelnut milk it has a similar color and texture but is a bit sweeter and milder, more ‘beany’, with a similar toasty rich, dark, slightly bitter piquancy that proves to be, for me at least, as satisfying as chocolate. It’s its own thing, obviously. But then, you don’t expect spelt to taste exactly the same as wheat, either. Thanks for the info. A paper in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2016, Goulas et al.) looking at the functional compounds of carob fruit, asserts that it is among the richest sources of powerhouse phenol gallic acid.

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