Funding Information: This research was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), under projects UIDB/00276/2020 (CIISA) and LA/P/0059/2020 (AL4AnimalS); Associação Nacional dos Industriais de Laticı́nios (ANIL); and Associação Portuguesa de Buiatria (APB). I.A. acknowledges Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia IP for the PhD scholarship, Grant SFRH/BD/136921/2018. Publisher Co...
Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Dark chocolate presents exclusive characteristics that make it a food product with worldwide consumption and also as an ingredient in several food industries. Although chocolate is an energy-dense food, it is also rich in bioactive compounds and recent studies have demonstrated health benefits from a moderate consumptio...