Chocolate not just makes you feel good and offers additional antioxidants (in dark chocolates), but can also improve your brain. Now, you have more reasons to consume additional bites of chocolate on a daily basis.

The University of South Australia, University of Maine and the Luxembourg Institute of Health researchers conducted the study and discovered that chocolate consumption enhances cognitive performance ‘irrespective of other dietary habits’.

The new study has defended eating chocolates in a limited quantity on regular basis. The study said that getting into a chocolate habit may give you a better-working brain.

During the study, the researchers evaluated data gathered during a previous study wherein residents of Syracuse, New York, were assessed for dietary consumption and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Participants also went through numerous tests planned to measure cognitive function.

The researchers said that more frequent chocolate intake was notably linked to enhanced performance on tests, such as Working Memory, Scanning and Tracking, Abstract Reasoning, the Mini-Mental State Examination, and Visual-Spatial Memory and Organization, along with the exception of Working Memory, the associations weren’t attenuated with statistical control for lifestyle, dietary and cardiovascular, factors.

The study mentioned that regular chocolate consumption may help save you against usual age-related cognitive decline. Researchers also noted that in the past, chocolate has been used to decrease fever, deal with childhood diarrhoea, boost strength prior to sexual conquests, reduce ‘female complaints,’ increase production of breast-milk, promote sleep and in cleaning teeth. The study has appeared in the journal Appetite.

The researchers said that chocolate and cocoa flavanols have been linked to improvements in a number of health issues dating from ancient times, and has become well-known for cardiovascular advantages, but slight was known regarding chocolate’s effects on neurocognition and behavior.