Have you ever wondered why we love chocolate so much? Namely, if we can all agree on one thing, it’s that anything with this ingredient is delicious. Chocolate ice cream, cake, donut, brownie… the rare thing is to find someone who doesn’t like it. They exist, but they are the exception that proves the rule.
This product does not resistOne bite and you can’t stop. But why exactly? What makes chocolate so appealing to everyone? Well, that’s what a group of researchers from Drexel University has studied, and as he explains Gary L Wink, An expert in psychology and neuroscience, actually the addictive thing about chocolate isn’t exactly cocoa.
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And it is that when scientists asked why we love chocolate in this way, let’s say it’s overdone, they decided to make Test with a group of the participants who were given Try different types of tablets: 90%, 85%, 70% and 30% cocoa. (The latter with milk) with added sugar and fat.
Which do you think they consumed more? actually The milk chocolate was the most addictive From everyone, and he was also the one contain more sugar, while Increase the proportion of cocoahe sugar decreased The natural fat of the product but nonetheless increased Wanting to eat it too download. It’s happened to all of us, we can eat a whole bar of milk chocolate, but if it’s 90% our two bars are more than enough.
This showed it In fact, what we love most about chocolate is the sugar it contains. The more cocoa diluted and the sweeter the product, the more cravings and satiation the study participants showed. In addition, taking the version with milk also increases feelings of well-being and euphoria.
Cocoa contains “various psychoactive substances, such as methylxanthines (caffeine and theobromine), PEA (an amphetamine-like), and anandamide (a cannabinoid),” Wink says, which certainly play a role, but this test showed that it The purest chocolate (90%) though had very positive feedback stimulating effects, It did not induce the participants to want to continue taking it As I did with the softer version. If there are no reasons to switch to dark chocolate…
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