“…From a functional point of view, cocoa has been considered an important source of different bioactive compounds. The more important groups of compounds present in cacao are flavonoids, mainly flavan-3-ols, phenolic acids, methylxanthines, peptides, N -phenylpropenoyl-L-amino acids, and stilbenes [5,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20].…”