Science shows why chocolate is so good

Why do people love chocolate so much? Scientists at Leeds University in the UK think they have the answer, and it has to do with how it feels rather than how it tastes. The secret, they found, is in chocolate’s fat content and the way it becomes smooth in your mouth when you eat it. All chocolate naturally contains some fat. The scientists used high-end brands of dark chocolate containing varying amounts of cocoa (also known as cacao—see the box at right). The more cocoa there was in a sample, the higher its fat content and the darker and less sweet the chocolate was. The team wasn’t interested in how the chocolate tasted, however. They wanted to know what happens when chocolate makes direct contact with the tongue and starts…

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