The European Food Safety Authority（EFSA）has ruled that cocoa powder and dark chocolate can help people improve blood circulation — a claim made by Barry Callebaut, the world’s largest maker of chocolate products. The Swiss group said on Tuesday it had provided evidence to EFSA that eating 10 grammes of dark chocolate or its equivalent in cocoa that were high in flavanols _____16_____ blood flow.
For the clinical studies it conducted to back up the claim, Barry Callebaut said it used a special process to make cocoa products that maintain the flavanols, _____17_____ are usually mostly destroyed during conventional chocolate-making. If the European Commission sign off on the EFSA ruling, the company and its customers
would have the right to use the health claim on packaging for products _____18_____ chocolate drinks, cereal bars and biscuits, the company said.
In an opinion posted on the EFSA website, a scientific panel concluded that a cause and effect relationship had been _____19_____ between the consumption of cocoa flavanols and the maintenance of normal vasodilation, which aids blood flow. According to Reuters, the European Union (EU) has been clamping down on health claims for food products. For instance, it approved _____20_____ some 200 out of over 2,500 applications earlier this year and gave food companies until the end of 2012 to remove any rejected claims. 【題組】17. (A)which (B)that (C)what (D)when
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