Cambridge University researchers develop anti-aging chocolate which reduces wrinkles

Esthechoc — “Cambridge Beauty Chocolate” would be individually wrapped, but consumers who want younger-looking skin while gorging on chocolate are advised to prepare to pay a hefty price for the anti-aging confectionary. Lycotec

The medical uses of chocolate just got longer with the inclusion of anti-aging to reduce wrinkles. This is made possible by researchers at Cambridge University who say eating 7.5 grammes daily of the chocolate would change the skin’s underlying structure.

The effect of that would be a 50-year-old having the skin of a 30-year-old because of the chocolate’s anti-aging property, reports The Telegraph. Lycotec, a company based in the UK with research links to Cambridge University, created Esthechoc, a 70 percent dark chocolate with the same antioxidants as 100 grammes of regular dark chocolate or 300 grammes of Alaskan salmon.

According to its creators, based on a clinical trial, eating a piece of Esthechoc daily for four week would boost blood supply to the skin and reduce inflammation. The clinical trials had people in their 50s and 60s whose skin biomarkers showed their skin was back to the levels of someone in their 20s and 30s, report MyNJ.com.

It is the same antioxidants that keeps goldfish gold and flamingos pinks, explains Dr Ivan Petyaev, creator of Esthechoc and former researcher at Cambridge University. He says, “People using it claimed that their skin was better and we can see that the product is working to slow down the ageing.”

It would be available at high-end retailers beginning October in boxes good for three weeks, although the “Cambridge Beauty Chocolate” would be individually wrapped. But consumers who want younger-looking skin while gorging on chocolate are advised to prepare to pay a hefty price for the anti-aging confectionary.

However, Lycotec says more trials are needed. Naveed Sattar, professor of Metabolic Medicine at Glasgow University, agrees more clinical trials are needed to validate Lycotec’s “ridiculously strong” claims. Likewise, University College London nutrition experts warn that previous trials showed astaxanthin works better when directly applied to the skin instead of eaten.

Chocolate has also been shown to halt progress of Alzheimer’s, boost athletic performance and to lose weight.

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