Science Tells You Why Chocolate Feels So Good!

 

Researchers from the University of Leeds’ School of Food Science and Nutrition and its School of Mechanical Engineering have worked out a reason why eating chocolate is so therapeutic for many! A study in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, explains that bites of chocolate hit our tongues and release a fatty film! This film when works with our saliva give us a happy sensation! Researchers are working on the fatty film further. 

“If chocolate has 5% fat or 50% fat, it will still form droplets in the mouth, and that gives you the chocolate sensation. However, it is the location of the fat in the make-up of the chocolate which matters in each stage of lubrication, and that has been rarely researched.” Anwesha Sarkar, a professor at the School of Food Science and Nutrition,

However, this is established that the fat layer should be at the outermost part to make the person feel the sensation earliest.

The team has used replica silicon tongues with computer simulations. Replicating the effect of chocolate on the tongue was the most important part of this study!