they are mostly sugar, but actual pure cacao is really good for you, and it's bitter at first but you get used to it and it's kinda sweet actually
Discussion
Lets not pretend this can be grouped togheter with real cacao
in the entire marketplace here on #madeira there is only one cacao based product that is any good, label says "chocolate pepitas" and it's from a brand "pantagruel" they come in 200g bags of little pure cacao and are like 57% fat no added sugar just cacao
everything else is at least 15% pure sucrose, typical is more like 40%, it's disgusting
i've ordered a 2kg (4lb) batch of cacao butter because of this... the non-fat component of cacao has lots of good things in it but it is also full of natural carbohydrates, the fat is where the real magic comes from, 1/3 of it is stearic acid, same as in beef tallow, and this and the other things in the fats are the core of what makes it a good food
in The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya they talk about a dude who tried eating a diet purely of croissants with pure cacao (like those pepitas) and his health radically improved even with the wheaty shit in the mix, and i can believe it
beef tallow is amazing too but i think there is some extra neat things in cacao, that are neither in tallow nor in coconut oil