Food Theory: Skip the Salad. Eat Some Chocolate!
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Published 2022-02-24
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Theorists, if you have the choice, would you rather eat a ton of spinach or chocolate? Which one do you think is BETTER for you? Well, you may just be WRONG! Today I'm diving into the science behind what makes our food "good" for us and why you should potentially be substituting that green stuff for some sweet, rich chocolate. Let's go!
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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Brittany Leigh Turnbull
Editors: Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi,Forrest Lee, Ryan Foley • KingCorphish and Jerika (NekoOnigiri)
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (Caiterpillart)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman
#Chocolate #Spinach #Salad #Nutrition #Superfood #Superfoods #Food #FoodTheory #MatPat #GameTheory #FilmTheory
All Comments (21)
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based on the title alone i can safely say i like this video
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I once entered a restaurant, and on the wall it said “Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a tree. That makes it a plant. Chocolate is salad.”
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Me, teaching myself to prefer salad over chocolate: Matpat coming in with this food theory:
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3:20 funnily enough, it's considered improper to use a pencil in STEM, and it was good protocol to always use pen. The logic was that it prevented people from falsifying/fudging results. So you'd write results in pen, and if you made a mistake, you'd cross it out with a single line to keep the previous note legible, while notating the date, time, and reason for the crossout above it.
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As one who is named after chocolate, consumes alot of chocolate, and who's favorite kind of chocolate is dark chocolate, I strongly support this video. This video is chocolate approved.
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"Three and a half cups is just one serving of spinach!" And if you cook that, it becomes the size of a teabag.
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MatPat: makes it very clear he isn’t great at cooking Also MatPat: starts a spectacular food channel
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MatPat, You are now obligated to do a “Food Theory” on the best dark chocolate.
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I would recommend reading your food labels to see what a serving size of dark chocolate is (at least 72% dark is best) to get a good idea of what nutrients you are getting. Like don't just stop eating veggies just because of this video because odds are the serving size of the chocolate you eat will not match the amount mentioned in the video. That being said, dark chocolate is a great snack that does have health benefits, just don't eat it in place of veggies.
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I have an iron deficiency and always mix a ton of spinach into my fruit smoothies for the vitamins and iron (it hardly changes the taste at all!) but now I'm really excited to start making dark chocolate strawberry smoothies, too
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I feel it's a bit remiss to not mention that if you want chocolate for the health benefits, take great care not to overload the sugar. Straight dark chocolate, like baker's chocolate, is quite healthy but also very bitter. A dark chocolate candy bar is not really the same thing healthwise. May be obvious, but still feel like it should have been called out at least once.
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i'd like to imagine that matpat just uses facts and logic at the dinner table when he was a kid, so he could just have dessert.
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as someone that just learned they have EXTREMELY low iron (like 0.05% of what's normal), this explains EVERYTHING.... I was having some real bad dizzy spells and fainting but counted out the possibility of having low iron because I ate spinach with literally every meal. So glad I stumbled across this video, can't wait to inhale some dark chocolate!! and spinach too i still love spinach
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I'm just going to say it, screw the health benefits, I've always eaten Spinach and Kale because I genuinely think it's delicious. So I guess my life now is: Eat Chocolate to be Healthy. Eat Spinach and Kale as Junk Food.
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I'm really happy you're covering the facts and strict nutritional value of all these foods we think we know, and I hope you keep going MatPat.
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That opening cartoon was way more entertaining than it probably should have been.
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Matpat: “fresh” fruits and vegetables are stored for weeks to months basically losing all their good nutrients by the time you eat it! Also Matpat: HELLO FRESH-
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For the record, when Mat is talking about dark chocolate in this video, he's referring to dark chocolate that has a cocoa content of 75-85%, if I'm not mistaken.
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I need to know exactly how long it would take to bake Mongo, the giant gingerbread man, from Shrek 2. Thank you.
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0:03 Matpat's supposedly frustrated yet completely monotone "agagagag" at the obstacle in his way is it's own genre of content.
