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Jun 11, 2020

Cheese Triggers the Same Part of Brain as Hard Drugs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, food, neuroscience

Independent.co.uk

Cheese contains a chemical found in addictive drugs, scientists have found.

The team behind the study set out to pin-point why certain foods are more addictive than others.

Using the Yale Food Addiction Scale, designed to measure a person’s dependence on, scientists found that cheese is particularly potent because it contains casein.

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