The Best and Worst Chocolate in America—Ranked! - msnNOW

Taste is an entirely subjective sense and therefore it's impossible to rank foods in terms of best or worst based on their flavor. One person's favorite pizza topping may be a food someone else could not be paid enough to eat, for example, or one type of leafy green that might taste bitter and vile to one tongue may be enough to make another mouth salivate.

Chocolates don't tend to see such extremes on the dislike end of things, but can certainly stir up emotions when it comes to favorites. Thus, to be clear, we are ranking these popular chocolates based entirely on the merits of their nutritional value —or more to the point in most cases, the lack thereof. We're using metrics like calorie count, sugar and fat content, and the presence of artificial ingredients to judge how these grocery store picks rank from unhealthiest to healthiest.

That's right, not all chocolate is unhealthy. In fact, there are multiple proven health benefits of dark chocolate high in cacao content, including a decent amount of fiber, a large amount of magnesium and iron (58% and 67% of your recommended daily intake per a 100-gram bar, respectively), and a surprising amount of copper and manganese (89% and 98%, respectively).

As you'll see in this article, those health benefits don't extend to milk chocolate and certainly not to chocolate-based candies like, say, Milk Duds. So go ahead and enjoy your favorite chocolate candy based on taste, but do practice some moderation.

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