We’ve Been Eating Chocolate Wrong All Along!

Food experts have said that Brits have been consuming chocolate the wrong way, it should never be kept in the fridge and should be consumed at 11 am.

A new study, commissioned by Galaxy, found the UK is a country of chocoholics, with 34 per cent munching on chocolate daily.

Natalie Alibrandi, a food scientist, has unveiled the most common faux pas people make when enjoying sweet foods.

The most typical mistake is when chocolate is kept in the fridge as humidity levels are too high, and a lot of people in the United Kingdom are making this typical mistake.

A study of 2,000 adults found that 78 per cent of people stored chocolate in the fridge.

The best temperature for a chocolatey treat is 18C.

The food scientist told a newspaper outlet that if chocolate is too warm, it will crumble or dissolve in your hands. If you can’t hear it snap when it breaks, it’s likely not at the right temperature.

Putting chocolate in the fridge can also cause oxidation to happen, causing sugar blooms, where the taste and aroma from other foods are transferred into the bar.

Alibrandi also said that 11 am time is the most suitable time to consume chocolate. This is because cacao contains both sugar and caffeine suggesting it’s good food to fuel you until lunchtime.

The study found that only one in five adults eats chocolate in the morning, but how many people even store chocolate? Well, they nearly had me there!

I certainly know that the best time to eat chocolate is when you fancy it, and let’s face it most people don’t store chocolate, they hide it from the kids!

Everyone is different though, and some people just prefer it directly from the fridge, and good luck keeping it at 18 degrees in hotter countries or during the summer months, and why are all these experts telling us what to do when we pay for it, so why shouldn’t we do what we want with it?

I really do wish that these people would stop saying we’re doing it the wrong way. Quite frankly, these experts are more irritating than Philip Schofield, and generally, when buying a bar of chocolate, it never makes it home, never mind into the fridge or cupboard.

I don’t suppose anyone actually cares how they consume their chocolate, they just eat it the way that they want, until the day comes when a whole bar is the same size as a small bar but costs an entire week’s wages.

To be fair the entire thing is absurd because if you lived in hotter climes and you didn’t store your chocolate in the fridge you’d probably be drinking it instead of eating it.

There’s only one way to eat chocolate and that’s by putting it directly into your mouth, now that’s called professional eating, and I must confess I am a tad partial to a box of Quality Street, does this mean that I have to eat the entire box by 11 am?

But isn’t this gaslighting? Trying to get people to believe there’s something wrong with them because of the way they like to eat their chocolate? Making them believe that they’re in the wrong, which is quite diabolical when you think about it.

And there was tragic news from the Nestle factory today as hundreds of boxes of chocolate fell on top of an employee. He tried in vain to get help but every time he yelled, ‘The Milky Bars are on me’. His fellow workmates just cheered.