The secret of why we like to eat chocolate

This news was published the 24th of February in the BBC by Dr. Michael Mosley.

It starts saying that he loves chocolate, he can't control how much he eats or when stops eating it. He says that apart from its nice taste, there is something else that makes chocolate so irresistible. 

 

Chocolate is made from the thing that is inside of cocoa beans. This thing is known as baba de cacao and it's sweet, acidic and very sticky. When this baba de cacao ferments it releases some chemical compounds that combined, create some chemical signature that our brain loves. Chocolate also contains a lot of psychoactive chemicals that in our brain feel like the effect of drugs like amphetamines, caffeine or cannabis.

One thing that gives us much pleasure is the fact that it melts when you put it in your mouth. Finally, the thing that makes chocolate irresistible is the amount of sugar and fat that it contains. The doctor matches these amounts of sugar and fats with the sugars that breast milk contains and maybe the brain is just trying to recapture the taste of human breast milk.

 

Personal opinion

I can't really give my opinion because I don't like chocolate, but I like nutella that is the same. I only can say that eating this kind of food is very delightful but very bad for our body. I  wish that some day scientist invent something good for our body and delicious as nutella, chocolate or other sweets.