Classical music encourages eating sweet foods

A study has found that listening to classical music may make you crave chocolate biscuits and other sweet foods and stay away from fast food such as burgers.

The newspaper pointed out that the study, conducted by researchers led by Miyagi University in Japan, reached this conclusion after 800 people listened to 20 clips of four types of music, namely classical, jazz, hip-hop and rock metal, and then asked them to rate their desire to eat 16 nutrients as well as explain how their emotional state was while listening to those music tracks.

Study participants said they felt calmer when listening to classical music and preferred sweet foods to fast food, such as burgers and chips.

The researchers mentioned the music tracks that the participants listened to, namely the soundtrack to Elgar's Salut d'amour and Bach's Air on the G String. The jazz songs were Dave Brubeck's Take Five and Miles Davis's Walkin'. California Love was for 2Pac, Dr Dre, Thrift Shop, Macklemore, and Ryan Lewis.

and metal rock music songs were Iron Maiden's The Trooper and Metallica's Master of Puppets.

The researchers added that delicious foods were least preferred when listening to classical music, compared to other types.

Researcher Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, told the journal Food Quality and Preference that the link between eating music and certain types of foods could be explained by our emotional state because previous studies have found that people perceive sweet foods as calming.

And the "Daily Mail" pointed out that previous research conducted by Karlstad University in Sweden found that listening to classical music in a clothing store prompted customers to buy expensive clothes.