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From personal experience, every bite of chocolate provides me a moment of bliss and happiness. I think happiness is the real reason for improved brain function.
by songzme 11y ago
From personal experience, every bite of chocolate provides me a moment of bliss and happiness. I think happiness is the real reason for improved brain function. I find myself most productive and most capable when I am happy.
- toephu2 11y agoThat's called dopamine. The chocolate you eat probably has sugar in it (otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao), and sugar is a drug associated w/ the release of dopamine in the brain.
- ktRolster 11y ago> otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao It's actually delicious, and each bean has its own flavor. If you live near Silicon Valley, head up to Dandelion chocolate and you can try some there (work up to it by getting used to the bitter chocolate first)
- netghost 11y agoIf you live in Seattle, drop by the Theo Chocolate factory in Fremont. Delicious.
- wapapaloobop 11y ago>otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao Every luxury food or drug tastes horrible until you've learnt to enjoy it. Remember your first beer or coffee? My guess is sugar would initially taste somewhat foul ('sickly sweet') if one was brought up without it. EDIT: I'm not recommending that people start snorting or imbibing cocoa powder. However I think that if this were the only form of chocolate then one would quickly learn to enjoy it.
- Riesling 11y agoFrom my personal experience, I have to agree with wapapaloobop. I put a spoon of raw cacao in my morning coffee, because I love the taste. However I drink (and eat no) sugar whatsoever and found the taste disgusting (in the sense of spitting it out) when I accidentally drank from my girlfriends coffee some time ago.
- matwood 11y agoI agree with you. I enjoy straight espresso and good black coffee. If I want to 'sweeten' it I add some milk. When getting coffee at shops I have mistakenly received one of those super sweet caramel, sugar whatever they are called and almost had to spit out the sip. I wonder if it is learned or if people who like sweets have different taste buds than those who do not. I also like really hoppy beer and bitter candy.
- dsr_ 11y agoIt is partially learned, partially a built-up tolerance. Anecdata: About three years ago I drastically reduced my intake of carbohydrates, including all forms of sugar and starch. After around two months, I tried tasting some things that I had stopped eating -- fruit juice, a bit of pie -- and discovered that they were horribly sweet to my tongue.
- stcredzero 11y agoThe amount of sugar going into foods has increased. I remember there being around 20 grams of sugar in most sodas. Now, there is typically about twice that amount, and Honest Teas are "lower in sugar" with 19 grams. The US food industry's tactic is this: foist lots of sugar on people when they're kids and don't know any better. Then, when they're adults, you can get away with plying them with lots of high fructose corn syrup, which is super cheap due to subsidies.
- toephu2 11y agoI still don't like the taste of coffee or beer.
- dorfsmay 11y agoThere are 90% and 95% cocoa chocolate that taste really good, you don't need a lot of sugar to take the bitterness off. Look for shops making their own dark chocolate, or smaller brands. The most well known brand people associate with dark chocolate tastes bitter and powdery (I suspect they use too much solid and not enough fat) Note that cocoa itself makes the brain release large amount of dopamine.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoThere's a huge difference between "dark chocolate" and "purestrain sugar".
- daxelrod 11y agoAnecdote: I find raw cacao nibs to be delicious.