That bloody woman
Gillian McKeith has come in for a lot of stick over the last few years - with her apparently bogus doctorate and obsession with poo, it’s rightly so in my opinion.This is just one of the reasons why …
McKeith has a range of foods for sale in many health food shops - another thing which cheeses me off - how can a shop be termed a health food shop when it doesn’t sell fresh produce?! But I digress, back to Gillian. Of particular concern to me is what she calls her ‘cacao bean bar’, subtitled a ‘natural superfood bar’. Sounds quite interesting, looks ‘health-foody’ with a picture of little beans on the wrapper.
However the cacao pod, the fruit of the cacao tree, is what’s most interesting. It has a number of seeds which are commonly called beans, and theses are surrounded by a white fatty substance. Together these two components - cocoa solids and cocoa butter make up what you and I call chocolate … the same bloody food Gillian McKeith condemns on her programmes. And the same food which she uses as a means to ridicule and humiliate her guests, because they’ve eaten it.
Eaten in moderation, chocolate is a perfectly ok thing to eat. Some researchers have even found it actually has positive benefits - we’ve probably all heard that.
How extraordinary it is for ‘that woman’ to put her name to a food which is quite frankly just a glorified chocolate bar.
I’ve not tasted one, but I imagine if challenged in a taste test, Green & Blacks would win, hands down!
Interesting link for history of chocolate is on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao
http://www.greenandblacks.com