Consuming chocolate regularly is considered by many as a good habit. Its flavonoid is said will benefit our mood and promote heart health. However, is there any other way to enjoy chocolate? Yes, some people even use chocolate for a spa. They believe it's good for rejuvenating their skin.
Lately, a bizarre way of enjoying chocolate has become a new trend. It's chocolate powder snorting. The practice of chocolate snorting was accidentally created in Belgium by a chocolate expert at a chocolate shop called The Chocolate Line, Dominique Persoone. He got this kind of idea when trying to create something new for the Rolling Stones members Roonie Wood and Charlie Watts' birthday party. He invented a device called a chocolate shooter.
A user would put an amount of powdered chocolate into the device and it will "catapult" the powder to his/her nose. Around 25,000 chocolate shooters have been sold throughout the world.
Mary Jean Dunsdon, the owner of a liquorice parlor in Vancouver Canada is known to sell snortable chocolate that she bought from Belgium. "I found myself in Antwerp at this wonderful place called The Chocolate Line, and they invented snorting chocolate. I bought a whole bunch and brought it home as I wanted people to snort chocolate in my candy store," she told a regional Canadian newspaper The Province.
She further told another Canadian newspaper the HuffPost Canada about how the snorting things work. "The chocolate goes up your nose and settles into your sinuses and oral factory where most of your tasting happens, then you just kind of experience chocolate for a couple hours, actually, in a very subtle manner ... It hits all the same pleasure receptors in the brain [as it would] if you were to eat chocolate."
This practice surely raises questions on safety issues among the users. Is it safe? According to an ear, nose, throat and sinus specialist in New York City Dr. Jordan Josephson, it's dangerous to snort chocolate, especially when you overdo it, as it will do some damages to the nose tiny fluffy hair named cilia and cause scarring on the sensitive parts of the nose.
