Vegan Superfood Hot Chocolate with Reishi, Maca, and Raw Cacao
Step away from the package of artificially flavored and sweetened hot cocoa. Instead, make this healthy hot chocolate loaded with superfoods like cacao, maca, reishi, and warming spices. Bring it on, winter. Hot chocolate is a seasonal treat best served fireside with friends and family. It’s the perfect way to warm up cold hands and makes a great accompaniment to Christmas movie marathons. The problem with this seasonal beverage is when it’s loaded with sugar and other mystery ingredients. Hot Chocolate Health Fail Swiss Miss milk chocolate cocoa mix ingredients read: sugar, corn syrup, modified whey, cocoa (processed with alkali), hydrogenated coconut oil, nonfat milk, calcium carbonate, less than 2% of: salt, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglycerides, carrageenan, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, artificial flavor. Sugar + Artificial Sweeteners Let’s translate those ingredients. The first two are sugar , which makes each packet clock in at eight grams of sugar, or about
