Raspberry flavoured water-based chocolates

They were a little dry. This might be more due to the fact that I waited over a week to taste after buying, than to any inherent quality of the chocolate.

The raspberry flavouring was very interesting. It was in lumps throughout the chocolate. Also, if you look closely, you may be able to determine that bubble wrap was used for the mould.

According to the stall operator at the chocolate festival, they do not subsequently lick clean, or so much as burst, the bubble wrap. And they think they know how to have fun!?

If only they'd given me chocolate before math in high school!

According to a report in Confectionary News,

"researchers at the UK's Northumbria university found the high level of cocoa flavanols anchored in chocolate improved cognitive performance in arithmatic tests. "

“Foods containing high levels of cocoa flavanols, found in chocolate, have been shown to increase cerebral blood flow, and...."

blah, blah, blah, some other stuff,

said Crystal Haskell at the Brain, Performance and Nutrition Research centre at Northumbria university,

Obviously my deficiency in flavanols explains why I am drinking so much cocoa these days.

I was particularly delighted by this paragraph:

Commenting on the findings Professor David Kennedy from Northumbria university added: “The results presented in the symposium show that medicinal herbal extracts and plant-derived chemical compounds from common foodstuffs can also improve cognitive performance and mood.”

They're just figuring this out now?

Flavanol-rich chocolate drink helps maths performance