🍫 Scientists Made A Song That Literally Makes Chocolate Taste Better

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Appy and Amanda jam Nation thing part of experiment. Yeah,
this is a science experiment that involves us eating chocolate,
which I'm happy for. You know, this is a cadbres.
As long as there's no electrodes, I'm happy. No, that

(00:31):
was the other experiment. We don't talk about that anymore.
I've talked myself into liking dark chocolate, and now I
love dark chocolate, and now I don't like this really
sweet stuff. But that's what we've got for our experiment today.
Any chocolate will do. So what's happening here is the
University of Bristol has created a song that makes chocolate
taste better when you listen to it. So the sixty
years of research has found that music's pitch, speed and

(00:54):
key can trick the brain into thinking something. Particularly, it
can help sweet treats taste more decadent than they already do.
So this woman, her name is doctor Natalie Hyacinth. She
discovered that the brain does a party trick called multi
sense reintegration, where sensors start to mingle. So her research
found that silky, lush tunes in a major key make

(01:18):
chocolate taste creamier and sweeter. So everyone, hey, everyone, grab
your choks. Take a bite. Now we'll listen. We'll have
a taste before we play the music, and then we'll
taste it as we listen to the music. And see
I there's any difference. Ryan, if you had some chocolate, well,
don't make it sound like it's a chore. It's not
laxative chocolate. You don't know the joy of being fed

(01:39):
laxative chocolate as a child. Chocolate bumelong. Just take a bite, yep,
and don't just guts it. People don't want to hear
me no, but I want you to think about how
it tastes and how you feel chol Give yourself over

(02:00):
to some sensory thoughts. Brendan, all right, and now let's
put this is a song that has been put together.
It's called Sweetest Melody. If you're playing at home, each
or chocolate, Well, the scientists have commissioned this track and
it's supposed to enhance the taste and flavor of chocolate.
Start playing it. Ryan, now attached the electrodes. It's nice

(02:22):
all right. Now while you're listening to that. Ye bite
the chocolate and feel how you feel, and take note
tastes the same. I can't tell either about you, Ryan,
I think it tastes better. Yeah, it's a nice experience

(02:42):
either way. I'll listened. How dismissive you are, No, I
just taste the same. I think it tastes I think
it's enhances the experience. If anything, though, Smooth have stolen
that song with it that turns up in a flake commercial,
there'll be trouble.