As a result, many of us eat so much sugar that it can harm our health. Science Questions Why do sweets taste so good? More Explore. Science Questions. You are about to leave Continue Stay on Highlights Kids.
In the times of pre-human primates and early humans, those who ate the most calories had a better shot at survival and thus at passing on their genes. Fruit, the most common natural source of sugar, could provide more energy than other sources of food, like vegetables, but was relatively scarce.
So some scientists suggest that those early humans that ate the most fruit lived longer and had more babies. Those future generations may have then evolved to crave that sugary fruit as an important part of their survival.
Now, of course, sugar is no longer scarce and we consume it in much larger quantities than the occasional rare fruit.
We also extract sugar from fruit and then concentrate it into things like juices and candies. This makes it easier to consume larger quantities of sugar than our body needs. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue. See Subscription Options. Go Paperless with Digital. All this cocoa-overload got us thinking: What is it that makes chocolate so darn tasty?
On a chemical level, why do so many people love it so much? For more info on the science of chocolate we turned to Thierry Muret, executive chef chocolatier at Godiva. This chemical complexity can teach us a lot about the way we, as humans, interact with and react to the magical little cocoa bean.
So the anandamide makes you feel blessed, makes you feel happy, makes you feel good. It is naturally in your brain, but is only active in your brain for a short period of time. It seems that … when you eat dark chocolate, you retain those anandamides longer … and the caffeine is giving you energy.
Dark chocolate is cocoa beans preserved in vanilla, but milk chocolate is cocoa with milk powders, sugar, and vanilla. Pairing this, pairing that.
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