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Always Craving Chocolate? Here’s What It Means
YAHOO You started the day with a bowl of oatmeal topped with fresh fruit and then grabbed a veggie-packed salad for lunch. And for dinner, you’re planning on whipping up a chicken and broccoli stir-fry with a side of brown rice. Not to be smug about it or anything, but you’re basically the epitome of good health. Except that it’s almost three o’clock and you’re starving. Not only that, but you’re hankering after something specific. Yep, you’re craving chocolate real bad. What gives? Here, some possible explanations for why all you can think about is that Snickers that’s lying at the bottom of your purse.New York’s City Bakery, Known For Hot Chocolate And Croissants, Is Gone
For nearly three decades, City Bakery in New York City enjoyed cult status. Its founder, Maury Rubin, was everywhere, from introducing a hot chocolate with the Rockettes, to profiles in The New Yorker, New York and Smithsonian magazines. People lined up for the bakery’s famous hot chocolate, salads, sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies, October 20th, and multiple varieties of croissants, including one made from pretzel dough. But on Sunday, City Bakery shut down, becoming the latest gourmet name to leave the Manhattan scene.
Research suggests chocolate chip cookies equivalent to drug addiction in the brain
A 2013 paper published by researchers from the University of Bordeaux suggests the ingredients in a chocolate chip cookie triggers the same addictive response in the brain as cocaine and marijuana. A traditional chocolate chip cookie contains 2.5 teaspoons of sugar, which the study says induces some of the same responses as cocaine. As for chocolate, it contains small amounts of a compound that trigger the same part of your brain as the addictive ingredient marijuana, THC, the study says. The two ingredients together create a harmonious flavor that can double the addiction.
Breakthrough research allows for 3-D printed chocolate without temperature control
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have pioneered a novel approach to 3-D print chocolate-based products at room temperature by cold extrusion.
Happy National Chocolate Day! October 28, 2019