Can You Really Eat Chocolate and Follow a Paleo Diet? — Paleo Chocolate Treats

Borrowing habits from our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the Paleo diet focuses on a simpler way of eating. It favors whole, nutrient-rich foods, and nixes "new world" foods like processed foods, dairy, grains, and sugar. The restrictions are many, so naturally it would seem like chocolate is certainly not on this diet's list of approved foods.

And yet the internet, cookbooks, and shelves of Whole Foods are filled with chocolate desserts that claim to be Paleo-friendly. It's confusing, right? Can your really eat chocolate and call yourself Paleo?

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