Chocolate Is The Most Widely Craved Food, But Is It Really Addictive?

Science Daily ^ | 11-12-2007 | University of Bristol.

[mollynme]

What's the world's best chocolate?

Dove dark chocolate comes pretty close.

[null and void]

You can eat it

You can drink it

You can crave it

You can drive it

Seems to be missing one. LJ? Would you be so kind as to supply the graphic?

[Mr. Jeeves]

I agree - Ghirardelli dark is also very good. Hershey’s tastes ghastly by comparison, and deserves a worldwide boycott. ;)

[hinckley buzzard]

Our unfulfilled desire to eat chocolate, resulting from restraint, is thus experienced as craving, which in turn is attributed to 'addiction'."

This is a useful and insightful comment. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that no chemical has "addictive" qualities per se.

[mupcat]

Here’s a link to what some consider the best

http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/16/pf/saving/q_chocolate/index.htm

[Loud Mime]

If you like almonds or Hazelnuts, try the Ritter Sport Bars. The chocolate is excellent and the Almonds (my favorite) add just the right amount of pop and flavor.

[mupcat]

This is sorta fun also. How about the worlds most expensive chocolate.

http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/07/cx_sy_0208featslide.html?thisSpeed=35000&boxes=custom

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Waiting anxiously for graphic...

[Doomonyou]

I thought it was beer.

[-YYZ-]

IMHO, Ghiradelli dark chocolate is probably the best dark chocolate I’ve ever had - it melts so readily, so smooth, and so chocolatey. Lindt dark chocolate is good, but for me only up to their stuff that’s 60% cocoa. Beyond that it’s just too bitter and slow melting for my tastes.

[mupcat]

One of my favorites is “Ice Cubes”. Don’t even know if they’re still being made. They’re the milk chocolate cubes that when you bite into them they melt really quickly all the time giving a little bit of a cool sensation. Strange, but really, really good.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

This thread is for you my FRiend PING!

[proudofthesouth]

I think its the sugar thats mixed in thats addictive.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m not addicted. I can stop any old time I WANT to. ;)

Actually, we were snowed in at work today. Toward the end of the day I told my lone co-worker...I’ll be back in a bit...I’m going to go find us some CHOCOLATE! And by Golly, I did!

And we were both made whole again and we both made it home to our families intact because we had a sugar and caffeine buzz going for the snowy/icy drive home. We were both totally alert and had the reflexes of a cat!

Chocolate. Saves. Lives. I am living proof! :)

[toldyou]

Any Lindt chocolate is great...

[MotleyGirl70]

If you like Dove then you’ll love Lindt Lindor (Swiss chocolate.) I prefer milk chocolate but they have the truffles in dark chocolate too. You can buy them almost anywhere.

[toothfairy86]

Belgian chocolate is generally the best. Trader Joe’s has a 60% cocoa bar that has a great taste and texture and is not very expensive...and it’s made in Belgium.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, that is SO cute! I just wish those “Smiley” programmers would quit peaking in my windows, LOL! :)

[MotleyGirl70]

I agree. See my post below yours :)

[Cacique]

btt