16/04/2010 (Agence Europe) - According to a Spanish study presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL) on Thursday 15 April, in Vienna, eating dark chocolate (containing 85% cocoa) allows portal hypertension (the blood pressure in the liver associated with damaged liver blood vessels) to be reduced in cirrhotic patients. By way of comparison, white chocolate, which contains no beneficial phytochemicals, does not have the same effect. The dark...