Sheryl Crow’s Decadent Raw Vegan Chocolate Mousse
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Sheryl Crow has bounced back from her breast cancer diagnosis in a big way and her new cookbook, If It Makes You Healthy is living proof. She appeared on The Early Show’s Chef on a Shoe String most recently and had some great things to say about fighting off disease.
Great holistic tips from Sheryl Crow:
1. Whenever you have the option of choosing more colorful vegetables you’ll also add more antioxidants and nutrients to your diet. Choose purple cabbage instead of green or purple cauliflower instead of white. Learn more here: Can You Eat With the Seasons and Eat the Rainbow at the Same Time?
2. Avoid pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and hormones in all instances because they can end up replicating estrogen which increases the risk of estrogen-positive cancers.
My favorite part of her segment without a doubt was the raw vegan chocolate mousse with avocado, cocoa powder, and agave nectar. These three foods are so healthy and here’s why:
Avocado is loaded with vitamin K, dietary fiber, potassium, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and copper. Avocados also help lower cholesterol. Cocoa has more antioxidant flavonoids than most foods, including blueberries, red wine, and black and green teas. In fact, it has up to four times the quantity of antioxidants found in green tea. And agave nectar has a good glycemic profile so you don’t get that sugar rush which takes the balance right out of your day. Make sure you buy the organic variety as well.
The recipe is raw and vegan without even trying, yay!
Cheers to serene ingredients..
Sheryl Crow’s Decadent Raw Vegan Chocolate Mousse
2 large ripe avocados
1/2 cup organic unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup agave nectar, plus more to taste
1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 pint fresh raspberries, or whatever berry you have on hand
Method
1. Cut a ripe avocado in half. Use a big knife to grab the pit and turn to remove. Spoon out the meat of the avocado and then blend to break it down a bit.
2. Add in cocoa powder, agave nectar, vanilla extract, and almond extract and blend for 1 to 2 minutes, making sure every part is included.
3. Refrigerate overnight and serve in martini glasses with garnish.
Recipe: If It Makes You Healthy
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17 Responses to Sheryl Crow’s Decadent Raw Vegan Chocolate Mousse
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Is it possible to get the nutritional info on this mousse? Thanks!
I love the idea of using avocado here instead of soy. I wonder how much more fatty it is than my version with organic tofu? http://www.carenbaginski.com/easy-vegan-chocolate-mousse-recipe/
And I wonder how the cacao differs to the semisweet chocolate flavor that most people recognize. I’ll have to make this recipe soon. Thanks for sharing!
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This recipe is so yummy! I shared it with a friend who has a son with food allergies and it was a big hit! It’s become a staple in my house instead of chocolate candy. Very satisfying!
Agave necter is 90% fructose! It is NOT healthy in any way, shape or form. Why do vegans get cancer so much? Maybe its not a healthy way to eat. Try Weston.A Price foundation for real food facts.
Let’s keep it a little more positive than this. I’m a fan of aspects of Weston as well but I’m not a fan of broad and misdirected comments such as “vegans get cancer.”
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The recipe looks wondeful and I’ll be making this tonight, thanks for sharing this.
I think if Paul really examines the research and not just hearsay, he’ll find lower mortality rates overall for vegans compared to non-vegans, especially for cardiovascular disease, and lower rates of many cancers. There ARE slightly higher rates amongst vegans for some cancers, postulated to be due to an imbalance of Omega3 vs Omega 6 fatty acids, and a lower calcium intake.
“Vegans” is too wide a category to really comment on adequately! There are just as wide variations in vegan diet as in animal-product including diets, from very healthy to very poor quality. It’s possible to be a junk food vegan living on chips and chocolate, with the same health consequences as the meat eater who eats nothing but fast food burgers.
Also many people take up a vegan diet after a cancer diagnosis, which can also skew the perceived number of vegans with cancers. That there’s a higher proportion of cancer survivors who are vegan, doesn’t mean their veganism caused the cancer.
I’m vegan for personal moral and ethical reasons, not health reasons, though I do try to eat food that’s as healthy as I can. Even if it was proved tomorrow that a diet based on meat protein was healthier, I wouldn’t ever switch back to eating dead animal flesh.
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Should I refrigerate this in the serving dish?
Wait, what are the berries for????
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