Tag Archives: Chocolate

Peanut butter should contain one or two ingredients: peanuts and maybe salt. Unfortunately, many Americans are spreading partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and added sugar on their toast without even knowing it. If you have never read the ingredient list on your peanut butter or any other food product before purchasing it, then it is time [...]

Science has confirmed what Native American Indians knew a long time ago. Pumpkin seeds, or pepitas, offer various health benefits. Here are some of the nutritional and medicinal benefits:
Very good source of manganese: Consuming ¼ cup of pumpkin seeds provide 74% of the recommended daily value of manganese.  Therefore, pumpkin seeds may be beneficial in [...]

Today is a day to reflect on what we do to sustain our beautiful Earth. Here at nicobella we truly try to be green each and every day.  Here are some of those things:

1. We use organic ingredients and Fair Trade chocolate.
2. Our truffle box [...]

Sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? The Chocolate Cleanse is exactly what we do here (almost) every day at nicobella organics in order to stay healthy. Surely you have heard of a cleanse or, perhaps, even tried one yourself. There is a Master Cleanse, a Juice Cleanse and even a Fasting Cleanse. We have tried [...]

Eating pumpkin pie for dessert this Thanksgiving? Or purchased some pumpkin chai truffles for your guests? Did you know that we use whole pumpkin seeds to make our pumpkin truffle?

Here is the scoop on the health benefits of this lovely seed:

•power packed with antioxidants
•high in fiber, helping with digestion
•rich in B vitamins, folate, and vitamin E
•abundance [...]

It's been a while since the last blog...you probably are not going to believe this, but we got another bug in our blogging system that took a little time to fix. It's exciting to be back in action again! We thought we'd start with a recap of the last Green Girls Night Out which was [...]