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I just read this article on Kompas and I think it’s very interesting. I finally knew the relation between chocolate and love feelings.
Chocolate is very popular all over the world and it was liked by young peoples to old. For some people, especially young man, chocolate is a symbol of affection.
Some research shows that chocolate consumption triggers hormone release calls serotonin in the brain. This hormone is able to gives us happy feeling and good mood. That is a feeling in this Valentine’s Day -14 February-, chocolate is a gift that was most given to loved ones (boyfriend, husband-wife, or children and parents).

Chocolate is not just tasty but also has a remarkable function. In Latin, the tree called Theobroma cacao chocolate, which means that the food from God. It calls like that because of its tasty; chocolate was trusted to extend the age. Chocolate also was claimed could prevent heart diseases and various cancers.

Cocoa crops have been known as one of the ingredients for a nutritious health. It was used by Olmec, Maya, and Aztec, the Indian tribes. It is use as herb, as single or in a mixture with other ingredients.
Beside that we have to know that the consumption of chocolate very much is also can be harmful. This is because chocolate contain fat. However, the popularity of chocolate is never dull?
What is in chocolate?
Vitamin
Chocolate is a product derived from the cocoa plant that originally came from Central America. The plant is taken to produce cocoa beans that are found in the cocoa fruit. One cocoa fruit contains 30 to 40 seeds. Cocoa beans that have been harvested and fermented, dried, roasted, and pressed for oil taken. Fermentation is a treatment effect the typical chocolate aroma. The main components role in the formation of this aroma is tanin. Brown oil is also popular with the term cocoa butter. Waste oil in the chocolate was processed to be chocolate powder or cocoa powder. Cocoa powder still contains enough vitamins complete, especially carbohydrate, protein, fiber, and some minerals.

Cocoa powder also contains small amounts of fat. Other minor components in the cocoa powder are teobromin, caffeine, polifenol and water clan. Chocolate powder and raw materials used in making commercial chocolate.

Creating Eforia, Improve Mood
Chocolate contains stimulant substances, a few amount of caffeine and teobromina, both classified as methylxantine family. In each one oz chocolate milk contains caffeine which is equally with one cup of coffee that the caffeine was already reduced. It is can be concluded that chocolate caffeine content is very small, so safe to be consumed even by children. While the heart effects of teobromina is not as strong caffeine, so people with heart disease can still enjoy the delicious of chocolate.
The processed cocoa products contain stimulation feniletilamin that has the antidepresan effect, same with amfetamin. This substances contains pharmacology component, n-asetiletanolamin, related to cannabis or marijuana. It is capable to trigger the secretion of anandamid, an endogen opiate that can stimuli eforia.

That is why chocolate can improve the mood of peoples who consumed it. That’s why chocolate products often referred as the love food, valentine food, food that makes people happy. Happy Valentine’s Day!