According to the latest data from the American Candy Association, the overall sales of chocolate and candy in the United States increased by 3.8% during the epidemic. Among them, ordinary chocolate increased by 5.5%, while the high-grade chocolate market grew the fastest, reaching 12.5%.

Chocolate can inhibit depression and make people feel happy, especially dark chocolate with more cocoa content, which is rich in phenylethylamine, which can play an important role in people's emotional regulation. Many doctors even use chocolate as a natural medicine for mild depression, because chocolate is rich in magnesium and has the effect of calming the nerves and relieving depression.

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Only eating too much chocolate can make people fat. Judging from the heat released, there is no need to worry about the danger that chocolate will make people fat. A whole plate of chocolate (100g) contains no more calories than a portion of McDonald's fries (200g). Some manufacturers advise people to eat light chocolate, which contains more fat than pure chocolate. In fact, light chocolate mainly reduces the sugar content (using sweet substances instead of sugar).

In absolute value, light chocolate only has 14% less calories than ordinary chocolate. Moreover, the taste of light chocolate is very general. In fact, only when you are worried about diabetes will you eat light chocolate.