A study carried out in Denmark shows what we can associate coffee with to have even more benefits in terms of antioxidants and nutrients.
Sweet coffee? Or black coffee? Kettle coffee? Filter coffee? Coffee with milk? Coffee with brown sugar? Or espresso? Or maybe a cinnamon cappuccino? Everyone has their own habit of starting the morning with one of the most popular hot drinks in the world: coffee. However, nutritionists recommend eliminating sugar from as many products as possible. Like coffee but also chocolate. Well, coffee and dark chocolate go great together.
Dark chocolate is also on the top of healthy recommendations for chocolate lovers. A rich source of antioxidants, healthy fats, but low in sugar, chocolate with 85, 90 or even 99% cocoa is not just a dessert, it even has the role of medicine. But isn’t it to everyone’s liking? The reason? Beyond the benefits of the label (quality dark chocolate has few ingredients, and the predominant ingredients in the recipe should be cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and then sugar. In that order.
Coffee and a piece of dark chocolate – does this combination go perfectly?
And it’s not just fans of dark chocolate who, by the way, seem very bitter to those who haven’t yet trained the “sense for bitter taste”, but researchers. This time Danish researchers. Germany’s Die Welt newspaper cites a study by researchers in Aarhus, Denmark from 2020. The Danish University of Aarhus investigated and found the explanation why coffee goes so well with dark chocolate and is worth eating together. A study was conducted to find out how coffee affects our smell and taste.
Well, coffee changes the perception of taste. This was the conclusion of the Danish study in which 156 volunteers participated before and after drinking a cup of espresso. To rule out the possibility that caffeine was playing a role, they also drank a decaffeinated one.
Coffee does not interact with salty taste or sour taste
The result: coffee improved the perception of sweet taste and made people less sensitive to bitter substances. So include 10 grams of dark chocolate with at least 85% cocoa in your morning coffee. Unsweetened coffee.
Interestingly, one of the conclusions of the study was that the taste of coffee has no effect on salty or sour foods. And dark chocolate or dark chocolate in combination with coffee has a milder taste. And the peak even feels a slight trace of sweet taste. We also did an experiment with unsweetened coffee and 90% cocoa chocolate and yes, we felt it was a suitable duo.
Sources: Aarhus University
