There’s nothing worse than a cough. No amount of hot drinks or honey can rid you of that tickle in your throat.
Now it turns out there could be something in your cupboard which can ease your need to cough sooner than medicine: chocolate.
Praise the lord.
According to HexJam, chocolate has a specific ingredient that could be more effective than some medicines. They also noted that chocolate doesn’t come with any nasty side effects.
A study was conducted in Imperial College London with 10 healthy volunteers. They were given tablets containing theobromine (a constituent of cocoa), codeine (the cough suppressant) or a placebo.
The test involved the volunteers inhaling a chilli gas to induce coughing. The end results showed that theobromine worked better at suspending the cough than codeine did.
As if we needed more of a reason to eat chocolate.
