How to Use Cacao Nibs: My Favorite Chocolate Cocoa Nibs Ingredient with No Added Sugar

In this video Aviva Goldfarb shows you how to use cacao nibs also called cocoa nibs. Perfect if you love chocolate but not added sugar. In this video I share easy cacao nibs recipes (aka cocoa nibs recipes). RECIPES: http://bit.ly/2nrEOHl Facebook Sugar Cleanse and Healthy Eating Group:   / 582861435197924   buy organic raw coconut nibs on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2oIQjcU (affiliate link) Fudgy Figgy Balls: http://www.thescramble.com/recipes-bl... Cocoa Nutty Granola with cocoa nibs: http://bit.ly/2oSjkDr Overnight Oatmeal with cacao nibs: http://bit.ly/2pwDT9g For more quick and healthy recipes: http://www.thescramble.com/ Aviva Goldfarb cookbooks: http://bit.ly/2m5cCd9 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this one:    / sixoclockscramble   Fed Up! The Movie: http://www.thescramble.com/six-oclock... Check us out on social media! Facebook:   / thesixoclockscramble   Twitter:   / thescramble   Pinterest:   / thescramble   Instagram:   / avivagoldfarb   Hi, I’m Aviva Goldfarb with the Six O’Clock Scramble, and today I’m going to show you how to use one of my very favorite ingredients: cacao nibs. Last year, I got involved with a film called Fed Up! And I learned a lot about how we’re eating too much added sugar in our diets. And I’ve always had a little bit of a problem with eating too much sugar and having sugar cravings and kind of a sugar addiction. So I decided to get most of the added sugar out of my life. And I actually created a Facebook group, which I can direct you to, where it’s all people who want to reduce or eliminate added sugar in their diets. Well, I love chocolate; I didn’t want to lose chocolate from my diet, so I discovered an ingredient called cacao nibs. And cacao nibs are made from chocolate beans; they’re part of the process of producing chocolate, but it’s before they add the sugar. So they’re very chocolatey. They’re a little bitter if you eat them straight, so I wouldn’t recommend that. But they take the place of chocolate or chocolate chips in a lot of recipes, as long as you find other natural ways to sweeten them. So I’m going to show you a few of my favorite ways to use these wonderful cacao nibs. You can find them in a lot of natural food stores. Even the big supermarkets are getting them now because they’ve become so popular. So, one of the things I like to do is, since they’re chocolate it seems like maybe they should be a dessert. But there’s no sugar, so they don’t have to be a dessert. So I start my day with cacao nibs in my yogurt. And what I do is I take some frozen, pitted cherries, and I microwave them so they get soft and juicy, and then I mix in some plain, unsweetened Greek yogurt. Then I sprinkle in like a teaspoon of cacao nibs and mix that all together, and it’s like I’m having this chocolate, cherry yogurt for breakfast. And it’s so healthy and so good. Cacao nibs, not only do they not have any sugar, but they’re super healthy for you. They’re antioxidants, and they have flavonoids, and they have fiber. And they’re dairy free, so there’s nothing not to recommend cacao nibs that I can think of. So that is one of my favorite ways to eat them. And then, another thing that I do for a snack is I—first of all, you can add cacao nibs to a lot of different foods. You can put them in—when I make granola, I add them to that. If you’re making chocolate banana ice cream out of frozen bananas and unsweetened cocoa, you can put that on that for a crunch, but one of my favorite afternoon snacks is to slice up a banana and top it with a tablespoon—I find there’s too much time between lunch and dinner. It’s like seven hours; I can never make it that long. So I try to eat something healthy that won’t fill me up too much. So I take a banana, I slice it up, I add a tablespoon or so of almond butter—unsweetened almond butter, of course, and then, you can slice in some strawberries on here. I sprinkle in some cinnamon, which is another healthy, very flavorful, kind of sweet ingredient. And, I sprinkle on some cacao nibs. And I have this really decadent, really filling little snack. So you can mix that all together, and it’s got the crunch and the creaminess and the saltiness from the peanut butter. I love it. So here’s another thing that I do. It’s kind of silly, but if I just need a quick, high protein snack, like a late night—if I ate too early and I’m really hungry before I go to bed, I will just take a teaspoon of almond butter or peanut butter, and I will sprinkle on some cacao nibs right on the spoon, and I will eat them like that.