This year the Coffee and chocolate party will arrive in Mexico City, with guests from several states of the interior of the Republic, to delight all its visitors with a variety of sweet and sour flavors offered by these two varieties of seeds.

Head of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), another edition of the festival will arrive, which will have free admission.

will be held on March 4 and 5, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.. He Autonomy Palace of the UNAM Foundation located at Lic Primo de Verdad 2, Historic Center, Cuauhtémoc will be the official location of the event.

In addition to exhibitors offering a variety of hot and cold drinks, truffles, cakes, biscuits, mice, ice cream, among other dishes prepared with cocoa and/or coffee, participants can be part of Free activities, suitable for the whole family, such as live music and literary presentations, product tasting, sensory workshop, cocoa ceremonies and others.

Chocolate bars (Getty)

Chocolate bars (Getty)

It should be noted that in addition to the variety of preparations, there will be types of coffee and chocolate sourced directly from producers in the States of Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, State of Mexico and Guerrerowho are involved in all seed management.

For the more purist or those wishing to prepare their own recipe options, there will also be an option to buy the beans of certain varieties.

It is expected that between exhibitors are: Ranek, Don Sibaris, Itze Chocolates, Gibrán Ice Cream, Cacao Foam, Santa Rosa Alfajores, Chontalpa Cacao, Brito Cheese, Xocolate DF, Peña Negra Café, Café de olla Huasteca, Xantina Café, Kukulchoc, Cacahuaxochitl, Cacaco Chontalpa, Chocolate Quinto Molinillo, among others, which will offer a variety of products at affordable prices.

It should be noted that this will be a great opportunity for consumers, who will be able to enjoy completely different and purer options than those they can buy in self-service stores. For example, there will be prehispanic options like chocolate bars with grasshoppers and maguey worms.

Chocolate. apart from being a delicious product that most people find irresistible, it is highly feeding and is a powerful source of antioxidantssubstances that can prevent or delay cell damage caused by free radicals. Additionally, cocoa has been found to help regulate the blood pressure and prevent cognitive decline.

According to Elham Kalantarzedeh, Maryam Radahmadi and Parham Reisi, researchers at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iranthe consumption of dark chocolate has various positive effects on the brain.

With the help of rats, specialists have discovered that dark chocolate improves certain parts of the brain (cognitive functions). “Our current study examined the impact of different dark chocolate diets on hippocampal synaptic strength and plasticity, as well as food intake and body weight in chronically isolated rats,” they said. declared.

Image of coffee harvest, Brazil. 05/08/2021. (REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli)

Image of coffee harvest, Brazil. 05/08/2021. (REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli)

With regard to coffee, a study of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) revealed that caffeineTHE polyphenols and other natural products present in it. may help reduce the severity of non-fatty liver alcoholic (EHGNA, for its acronym in English), in overweight people.

It is a disease caused by the accumulation of fat in the liver and that it can cause hepatic fibrosis, which can progress to cirrhosis. In this way, caffeine consumption is associated with a decrease in liver fibrosis and other related diseases.

Similarly, coffee is associated with acceleration of the colon and promote intestinal transit, at the same time as the production of acid in the stomach increases.

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