It should be no surprise that chocolate has been the subject matter for huge amounts of university studies; everybody is looking for that elusive “chocolate gives you cancer/makes you impotent/leads to miscarriages story that will give their little study some much-needed popularity. The findings of these studies, however, may come as quite a shock to most you – especially to you people who find yourselves fleeing to confession at the mere sight of the free piece of personalised chocolate provided with your coffee.
Firstly and most importantly; there is absolutely no causal link whatsoever between consuming chocolate and getting acne – so there! Instead, it could well be that people with acne feel the need to eat more chocolate to cheer themselves up, because the elevated mood associated with chocolate is a genuine side effect. Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine – a mood elevator which, when combined with a rise in serotonin levels due to the massive intake of carbohydrate, results in a temporary sense of happiness and well-being. However, the chocolate “high” and excitability associated with chocolate are also myths; the quantities of caffeine and bromine in chocolate are so low that they have little or no effect on the human body, unless you consume somewhere in the region of 10kg of the stuff – at which point I expect the subsequent gym binge will ruin your mood.
The source of chocolate is the cacao bean, which actually tastes rather foul. I discovered in Africa that the pod in which the cacao beans grow contains a delicious flesh, but the actual beans themselves are disgusting - especially when dried out in the chocolate-making process.
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