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HEALTH - The content of flavanoids (antioxidants) in dark chocolate is believed to provide numerous health benefits. Unfortunately, not everyone likes the taste of dark chocolate. Chocolate with milk mixture is generally preferred.
Research conducted by researchers at the Nestle Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, and published in the Journal of Proteome Research found that eating dark chocolate every day for two weeks can reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol and catecholamine hormones related to anxiety.
However, the taste of bitter dark chocolate which tends to make some people do not like him. Well, the good news, food scientist at the University of Oxford have found a simple way to change the sensation of bitter dark chocolate becomes creamier or sweeter.
Researchers found that the strains of flute-type flute-played softly in a song, it can make a piece of dark chocolate taste was more creamy.
Now, researchers are working with a consortium of chocolatiers in Belgium to produce packs of dark chocolate box that allows consumers chocolate food while listening to the soundtrack.
The researchers whose work is published in the journal Appetite, gave 116 volunteers a small piece of dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 71-81 percent. They were asked to taste the chocolate and report what they feel, both when eating chocolate without music, or when accompanied by music.
Felipe Reinoso Carvalho, a food scientist and psychologist at the Vrije University of Brussels, which is the first author of the study said, it seems music can alter one's perception of the texture of the food.
This study also raises the possibility that other foods can also be perceived differently according to the accompanying music. Thus, further research is expected to make healthy food with unpleasant taste would be preferred.
