Hot Chocolate and Green Tea: New Chocolate Combination from Oliver Kita Chocolates

Rhinebeck, NY (PRWEB) February 3, 2010 -- Double the pleasure while doubling the health benefits of a cup of hot chocolate is now possible, thanks to Oliver Kita’s new Hot Chocolate mix with green Matcha tea. Oliver Kita (http://www.oliverkita.com/hot_chocolate_tins.html) created a gourmet Hot Chocolate treat that has an added energy boost. Green Matcha tea from Japan has a high content of catechins, the healthy antioxidants also found in chocolate. “Japanese green tea adds a soothing yet refreshing experience to my hot chocolate,” said Kita. “It’s an earthy flavor that is subtle, yet adds a wonderful undertone of green tea taste to the cacao flavor.”

Oliver Kita’s hot chocolate comes in decorative tins filled with gourmet cocoa, and that hint of green Matcha tea. It easily melts in hot milk of any percentage, hot soy milk, or hot water. Valrhona chocolate, which dates back almost a century to the Rhone Valley of France, is a very rich chocolate, and now Oliver Kita has now made it more so, while enhancing it with green tea.

“The combination of green Matcha tea and cocoa elevate the taste experience to a new level of enhanced taste as well as a pleasurable lift of energy,” said Kita. Matcha green tea is known to increase energy without the caffeine jitters, lower blood pressure, boost metabolic rate by over 35%, stabilize blood sugar levels, and decrease the “bad” cholesterol LDL.

Each decorative Oliver Kita gourmet hot chocolate tin contains enough for 12 servings of hot chocolate. “This is the best way to enjoy a winter afternoon with family or friends,” added Kita.

The OliverKita.com website http://www.oliverkita.com highlights other new chocolate creations perfect for a snowy cold winter, such as perky penguins, each handmade pistachio marzipan penguin is covered in white milk and dark chocolate tuxedos, and comes one per white igloo box. There are also organic chocolate Buddhas filled with organic peanut butter (http://www.oliverkita/organicgreen.html).

About Oliver Kita

Oliver Kita is an award-winning Chef and Caterer who turned his artistic culinary talents to creating hand-made chocolates. A Culinary Institute of America graduate, Chef Oliver Kita received diplomas from L’Ecole Lenotre in Paris, L’Ecole du Grand Chocolat Valrhona in France and Academy du Chocolat, Barry-Callebaut, Montreal. “Appreciating chocolate every day can change your perspective on living,” said Kita. “Take the time to evaluate and enjoy what you have, where you are now, and chocolate every day is a part of that experience.”

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