A recent study found that eating chocolate during coughing and coughing reduces the symptoms of coughing. Eating a piece of milk chocolate when you cough is better than traditional medicines.

According to Professor Alan Morris, head of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases at the University of Hull, it confirms that chocolate calms the cough. The study, conducted on 163 people, and revealed that patients who eat chocolate have improved significantly within two days of coughing.

The researchers found that theobromine, a component of cocoa, is better in inhibiting the cough stimulus than the cudine, a component commonly used in cough medicines.