Want to eat chocolate and not gain weight? The “water injection” chocolate developed by British researchers may help you achieve your wishes.

The researchers also developed a variety of new foods based on the principle of “water injection” chocolate, in an effort to solve the increasingly serious problem of obesity in the UK at an early date.

New discovery

Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom said they found that they can replace the fat in ordinary chocolate with water, air or gel without heat.

The British "Daily Telegraph" quoted the research project leader Philip Cox as saying on the 20th: "Small, stable bubbles are similar to oil droplets because of their size and physical properties, so they can be used as substitutes for the production of new low-fat foods. ."

So the researchers tried to combine water molecules with cocoa butter to make "water-filled" chocolate. The water content of this new type of chocolate is as high as two-thirds.

The researchers said that although "water injection", this new type of chocolate is no different from ordinary chocolate in terms of taste, smell or feeling. The only fly in the ointment is that it can't withstand high temperatures and dissolves at 32 to 34 degrees Celsius.

Hope to go public

Many chocolate lovers are excited about this news.

The netizen who signed "Sala" couldn't wait to leave a message on the "Daily Mail" website: "When is the listing?" The netizen who signed "Joanna" said: "I would like to have a taste and see if she is like As the legend says, it tastes like ordinary chocolate."

Some netizens said, "It sounds so good. People can supplement the water they need every day by eating chocolate. Next, they (researchers) can combine the vegetables that people need every day with chocolate, so we only eat Chocolate is all right."

However, some netizens expressed doubts: "This sounds too good, not really. It may be that after we have eaten for a year, we find that it has side effects on health."

Change more

The researchers are confident in the "water injection" chocolate. They also use the same theory to "reform" high-calorie foods, such as making mayonnaise with a fat content of only 5% and reducing the salt content of processed foods by 80%.

In addition, the researchers are still developing a "super porridge" that will become gelatinous when it meets stomach acid and can stay in the stomach for up to 6 hours. In other words, if you drink this bowl of porridge, people will not feel hungry within 6 hours.

Professor Ian Norton, head of the “Super Congee” project, said: “Our research has made significant progress and is negotiating with manufacturers to produce products based on this research.”

Researchers hope that their research will help solve the problem of obesity. "Blowing health knowledge to bomb the people" has no effect. If we want to solve the problem of obesity, we need to broaden our thinking and find new solutions," said Dikon Ross, editor-in-chief of Engineering and Technology magazine.

Statistics show that the proportion of obese children in the UK is increasing year by year, from 10% in 1995 to 17% in 2008. At the same time, a quarter of British adults have reached the standard of obesity.