Tag Archives: Science

10Jul/17

Eating while looking at yourself in the mirror makes food taste better

July 10, 2017Culture, Factual, Information, NewsEating, Flavour, Food, Mirror, Popcorn, Reflection, Science, Student, Study, Taste, UniversitySephra

Are you tired of eating alone? Why not try dining with your mirror image? Your food will taste better, according to a recent cognitive science study.

28Feb/17

Why You Should Definitely Be Drinking More Hot Chocolate

February 28, 2017Information, News, Products, TechnologyChocolate, Diet, Drink, Drinking, Flavanols, Health, Heart, Hot, Science, Study, Tea, WineSephra

Who would have guessed that the key to a healthy heart really is chocolate after all?

03Feb/17

Cocoa: When Chocolate Meets Science

February 3, 2017Culture, Factual, Information, News, Products, TechnologyAroma, Beans, Chocolate, Chocolatier, Cocoa, Criollo, Forastero, India, Ingredients, Melting, Roasting, Science, Shelling, South America, TrinitarioSephra

Ranjani Rajendra roasts, shells and tempers a handful of locally-grown cocoa beans to tell the story of a single-origin bar.

19Dec/16

Chocolate… 9 Healthy Reasons Why You Need To Eat More Daily

December 19, 2016Factual, Information, News, Products, TechnologyAcid, Adrenal, Aging, Benefit, Caffeine, Cardiovascular, Chocolate, Cholestorol, Cocoa, Cortisol, Dark, Diabetes, Energy, Epicatechin, Epinephrine, Flavanols, Gland, Health, Hormone, Medicine, Metabolism, Mitochondria, Oxidative, Placebo, Plasma, Polyphenols, Research, Science, Stress, Stroke, Sugar, Swiss, Test, WeightSephra

Chocolate. It’s one of life’s great comfort foods. Bite into a bar of chocolate and a taste sensation overruns your senses. It helps to get you through troubled times and balance outRead More…

21Nov/16

Listening to different sounds or music while eating chocolate can change its flavour

November 21, 2016Entertainment, Factual, Fun, Information, Products, TechnologyAudio, Bitter, Cadbury, Chocolate, Eating, Experience, Flavour, Flute, Harmonic, Listen, Listening, Music, Musician, Note, Science, Sound, Staccato, Taste, ViolinSephra

Researchers claim chocoholics will be able to increase their enjoyment of the snacks by listening to music.

16Nov/16

Eating Chocolate Makes You Smarter

November 16, 2016Factual, Information, News, ProductsBrain, Chocolate, Clever, Cocoa, Coffee, Cognitive, Consumption, Diet, Eating, Flavanols, Food, Function, Habit, Health, Intellegence, Intelligent, Nutrition, Research, Science, Smart, Smarter, Study, TeaSephra

It’s good news for chocolate fans as a new study suggests that eating chocolate could actually make you smarter. In fact, a group of scientists are actually recommending you eat more ofRead More…

31Oct/16

Chocolate… 5 Scientific Reasons Why It Should Be Savoured

October 31, 2016Factual, Information, News, Products, TechnologyAroma, Brain, Caramel, Chemical, Chocolate, Cocoa, Crystal, Dopamine, Experience, Flavour, Floral, Health, Memory, Olfactory, Savour, Science, Senses, Sensory, Seratonin, Smell, Taste, TemperatureSephra

Chocolate has tempted the world more than any other dessert. Though our first instinct is to quickly indulge in chocolate’s creamy goodness, scientists have discovered that to fully experience chocolate, it shouldRead More…

16Sep/16

Sir Hans Sloane – More Than Just The Chocolate Man

September 16, 2016Culture, Factual, Information, TechnologyBeverage, Blackwood, Botanist, British, Chelsea, Chocolate, Cocoa, Collection, College, Costume, Drinking, Duke, Egypt, Europe, Hincks, Inoculation, Ireland, Jamaica, Killyleagh, Liquid, London, Medicine, Middle East, Milk, Museum, Nelson, Newton, Physician, President, Quinine, Recipe, Royal, Science, Sloane, Society, Study, Sugar, Syria, TrafalgarSephra

Jenny Lee takes a bite of Killyleagh history during a walking tour of the Co Down village, birthplace of scientist and collector Sir Hans Sloane, who is credited with bringing the recipeRead More…

23Aug/16

The science of chocolate: What makes us like it so much?

August 23, 2016Culture, Factual, Information, NewsAnandamide, Art, Brain, Caffeine, Chocolate, Cocoa, Craving, Guilty, Happy, History, Marijuana, Mayan, Mexico, Milk, Pleasure, Sanskrit, Science, Serotonin, Stimulant, SugarSephra

Does chocolate make you happy? There’s science behind why that might be.

04May/16

Smile! Laughter and chocolate are good for your health

May 4, 2016Factual, Fun, Information, News, Products, TechnologyAdrenaline, Benefit, Bliss, Brain, Cacao, Chocolate, Cortisol, Emotion, Flavanoids, Happy, Health, Heart, Hormone, Laughter, Love, Memory, Research, Science, Smile, SugarSephra

Here’s something that’s sure to put a smile on your face: A key to good health just might come in the form of a chocolate chuckle.