Three Sweet Foods Trigger A Sense of Happiness!

Three  Sweet Foods Trigger A Sense of Happiness!

Anindya Citra Anggraini

Jakarta | Fri, March 23 , 2018 | 20.00 pm

When most of people think about what that makes them happy. Usually, we just focus on the “things” in life that we love or long to own. These things might be concrete consumables such as “time, inner peace, or love”. In fact, the sweet foods are also makes people happy. Since, the human body has a hormone that can trigger the happiness, called serotonin. In order to form serotonin perfectly, the human body needs tryptophan and amino acids as proteins. If we don’t consume foods without the serotonin inside, so we will easier feel sad. We can get the serotonin from some sweet foods that we consume often. Uhmm, what do you think it is?

1.      Banana

Actually this fruit can bring the happiness for us. A recent study from The Happy Egg Company found that eating the  yellow foods can release the significant levels of the hormone of happiness. When we see the yellow foods, it encourage us to eat. It’s as warmth and and bring the happiness because we see the bright color of it.

Banana also a healthy fruit. Since tryptophan substances and essential amino acids contained in bananas,so it can increase serotonin levels in our body. Moreover, this hormone can improve our mood into the good mood.

2.      Chocolate

There are so many reason why chocolate makes people happy. Let’s begin with a simple explanation. What would you feel after you ate chocholate? Are you feel happy? Yes, of course. Chocholate makes people happy because it tastes good. We can get a moment’s respite from busy in daily activities or often stressed out. For some people, chocholate is a guilty pleasure. However, it’s not applicable for chocholate lovers. They can feel the taste of chocholates even just by looking the pictures of them or just inhaling it’s wonderful aroma.

But the truth for why chocholate makes people happy is because it comes from a mixture of chemicals. They are sugars and amino acids combine, forming members of family of molecules called pyrazines. It contributes the sensation of chocholate. While we were eating chocholate, it releases several neurotransmitters that have positive effects on human feelings. That’s why some peoples feel happy when they ate chocholate.

3. Ice Cream

Many people love the taste of ice cream and consider it to be a treat to their taste buds. Is that true? Does ice cream really make us happy? Yeah… it’s true. Even there is a quotes that show the happiness like this.

Many people considered that ice cream has a highly pleasureable food. It has unique shapes, variations of flavour, and colorful. Those are kinds of why many people want to eat ice cream.

Ice cream does make us happy! It was found that the

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a part of the brain which plays a role in emotional processing and decision making, is activated when eating ice cream. The OFC shows a positive emotional while eating the ice cream, almost like the brain was being rewarded (Oxford Journals). Furthermore, there are five other parts of the brain that were positively activated by eating ice cream. They are The primary somatosensory cortex, The insula cortex, The motor cortex, The dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex and The retro-splenial cingulate.  

All of the reasons of what makes people happy when they ate the sweet foods. And actually chocolate is a unique one combination of sensory characteristics, with melting properties like ice cream and banana.