Cooper Karen A, Campos-Giménez Esther, Jiménez Alvarez Diego, Rytz Andreas, Nagy Kornél, Williamson Gary
Nestlé Research Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland.
J Agric Food Chem. 2008 Jan 9;56(1):260-5. doi: 10.1021/jf072153c. Epub 2007 Dec 1.
Chocolate is often labeled with percent cocoa solids content. It is assumed that higher cocoa solids contents are indicative of higher polyphenol concentrations, which have potential health benefits. However, cocoa solids include polyphenol-free cocoa butter and polyphenol-rich nonfat cocoa solids (NFCS). In this study the strength of the relationship between NFCS content (estimated by theobromine as a proxy) and polyphenol content was tested in chocolate samples with labeled cocoa solids contents in the range of 20-100%, grouped as dark (n = 46), milk (n = 8), and those chocolates containing inclusions such as wafers or nuts (n = 15). The relationship was calculated with regard to both total polyphenol content and individual polyphenols. In dark chocolates, NFCS is linearly related to total polyphenols (r2 = 0.73). Total polyphenol content appears to be systematically slightly higher for milk chocolates than estimated by the dark chocolate model, whereas for chocolates containing other ingredients, the estimates fall close to or slightly below the model results. This shows that extra components such as milk, wafers, or nuts might influence the measurements of both theobromine and polyphenol contents. For each of the six main polyphenols (as well as their sum), the relationship with the estimated NFCS was much lower than for total polyphenols (r2 < 0.40), but these relationships were independent of the nature of the chocolate type, indicating that they might still have some predictive capabilities.
巧克力通常会标注可可固体含量百分比。一般认为,可可固体含量越高,多酚浓度就越高,而多酚具有潜在的健康益处。然而,可可固体包括不含多酚的可可脂和富含多酚的脱脂可可固体(NFCS)。在本研究中,对可可固体含量标注范围为20%-100%的巧克力样品进行了测试,以检验NFCS含量(以可可碱作为替代指标进行估算)与多酚含量之间关系的强度,这些样品分为黑巧克力(n = 46)、牛奶巧克力(n = 8)以及含有威化饼或坚果等内含物的巧克力(n = 15)。计算了总多酚含量和各单体多酚与NFCS含量之间的关系。在黑巧克力中,NFCS与总多酚呈线性相关(r2 = 0.73)。牛奶巧克力的总多酚含量似乎系统性地略高于根据黑巧克力模型估算的值,而对于含有其他成分的巧克力,估算值接近或略低于模型结果。这表明牛奶、威化饼或坚果等额外成分可能会影响可可碱和多酚含量的测量。对于六种主要多酚中的每一种(以及它们的总和),与估算的NFCS之间的关系远低于与总多酚的关系(r2 < 0.40),但这些关系与巧克力类型的性质无关,表明它们可能仍具有一定的预测能力。