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Almost everyone loves chocolate so much that we crave it all the time. However, chocolate substitutes don't give us quite the same warm and fuzzy feeling as regular chocolate and the reason may leave you utterly shocked!

The Reason Why The New Chocolate Substitute Just Doesn't Compare To The Original Is:

In a study published today in PNAS, physics researchers at Temple University describe a new chocolate-making technique that let them cut the fat content which usually made-up half or more of the bar by 20 percent.

Researchers accomplished the trick by electrorheology, a technique in which an electric field is set in the same direction as a moving liquid. The field flips the particles into chains that move together, making the liquid flow easier.
Lead researcher Rongjia Tao of Temple University noted that, although the method had never been used on food before, it wasn’t an entirely new technique.

“Dark chocolate, basically, is a mix of cocoa solids and the liquid is cocoa butter. It’s a liquid suspension,” Tao told Gizmodo. “[The same technique] is also used to reduce the viscosity of crude oil in the pipeline, the crude oil is also a liquid suspension.”

Chocolate, even at its worst, is not crude oil. It’s not enough for it to flow through machinery without clogging it, it also needs to taste and feel just right. In a statement, Tao had described the flavor as “wonderful,” adding that many in his lab called it “better than the original.”

That’s where the problems start. “Better” is not only a subjective judgement of taste but also another way of saying that something just tastes different than the original. And that difference is the basic problem that all food substitutes keep running into,they don’t promise a taste that’s better than the original. They promise an identical one—and over and over, they fail to deliver it.

We Like The Original Kind Better!

Now that you know why chocolate substitutes don't taste quite right, you may never try to replace real chocolate again. Have you tried chocolate substitutes before?

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Article Source: Gizmodo