Chocolate Shown to Enhance Visual Performance, Improve Eyesight

Everyone knows that carrots are good for promoting healthy vision; it’s the beta-carotene contained in carrots that makes the vegetable a powerful food for eye health. But recent research has found that a much sweeter, favorite snack can also be responsible for eye health – chocolate.

Finding yet another health benefits of chocolate, scientists with the University of Reading in England tested the vision of 30 men and women before and a few hours after eating a chocolate bar. (Doesn’t sound so bad , huh?) Half of the participants received white chocolate and the other half received dark chocolate. Those who received dark chocolate performed better on vision tests—better than before the tests and better than the other participants who received white chocolate. Their findings were published in Physiology and Behavior. >