Chocolate is one of the most common foods in the world. We’ve been making it for hundreds of years, in one form or another, and today we can find it almost anywhere. It lines cakes, covers candies, flavors drinks along with being hugely popular just by itself.

While most people eat chocolate for it’s delicious taste and melt in your mouth texture, science is also coming to appreciate the dark treat. We all know that chocolate can help improve our mood, but new research is also demonstrating that it can improve our memory and cognitive skills such as abstract thinking. International Business Times has more:

Two different epidemiological studies in 2007 and 2009 and clinical trials in 2009 had demonstrated the ability of flavonoid-rich food – which chocolates are included – in improving cognitive function. Because there is no effective treatment for neurodegenerative disorders caused by aging, medical experts rely on nutritional practices that target the prevention or slowdown of cognitive decline in optimising cognitive functioning across the adult years.

When she examined the mean scores of participants on cognitive tests, those who ate chocolate once a week had higher scores than those who had it less than once a week, linking it to superior brain function. Crichton says that superior brain function could be applied in everyday tasks such as remembering phone number, making a shopping list, or doing two things at a time such as driving and talking.

Not that we ever needed a reason to eat more chocolate, but it appears that aiming to indulge once a week is good not only for our taste buds but also for our brain. Check out the full post for more.

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