Key point: "The researchers point out that the product used in the study is not the same as chocolate, and they caution against an increase in chocolate consumption in an attempt to gain this effect."
edit: hate to do this, but would love to know rationales for downvotes. I wanted to drop that comment out there in case people thought they could go out and eat a lot of dark chocolate to get the same benefits, which they should not (blood sugar and obesity are strongly linked to cognitive decline). Dietary consumption of the flavanols is not the same thing. Maybe I should have just written that out, but I thought it was pretty self-explanatory for an educated crowd.
edit 2: no need to upvote, I'm not trolling for those (edit #1 was a bit more about general curiosity and mild peevishness) :) And thank you @HCIdivision17, for the feedback. I see the future for that in ingredients (drinks with green coffee/tea extracts) and supplements (like some plant phenol products (resveratrol, pterostilbene)
I can't help but think your bio entry says it all (explicit's better than implicit, too ;).
But I have to agree: it's interesting stuff and may spur different cocoa formulas in the future. I don't really know anything about flavinols, so I'll be doing a bit of reading about it now.
Key point: "The researchers point out that the product used in the study is not the same as chocolate, and they caution against an increase in chocolate consumption in an attempt to gain this effect."
edit: hate to do this, but would love to know rationales for downvotes. I wanted to drop that comment out there in case people thought they could go out and eat a lot of dark chocolate to get the same benefits, which they should not (blood sugar and obesity are strongly linked to cognitive decline). Dietary consumption of the flavanols is not the same thing. Maybe I should have just written that out, but I thought it was pretty self-explanatory for an educated crowd.
edit 2: no need to upvote, I'm not trolling for those (edit #1 was a bit more about general curiosity and mild peevishness) :) And thank you @HCIdivision17, for the feedback. I see the future for that in ingredients (drinks with green coffee/tea extracts) and supplements (like some plant phenol products (resveratrol, pterostilbene)