Chocolate doesn’t need to taste BETTER, the issue is that it tastes TOO good. But don’t tell that to SCIENCE.
A researcher at the University of Bristol in the U.K. named Dr. Natalie Hyacinth created a song that supposedly makes chocolate taste even better when listening to it. (It’s new, so it’s not “Chocolate” by Snow Patrol. Thankfully.)
She reviewed 60 years of scientific research on “multisensory integration,” and composed the music around “sonic qualities proven to affect flavor”: Pitch, tempo, and harmony.
The original composition is called “Sweetest Melody”, and it lasts the time it takes for a piece of chocolate to melt in the mouth, roughly 64 seconds. It’s available on YouTube and Spotify. (Here’s a direct link. And here’s the researcher talking about it.)
(To find it on Spotify, you should search for “Sweetest Melody” and then add “Galaxy Chocolate”. They commissioned the track. We DID test this out, and I think it will require another trial, or six.)
(72 Point)
