The researchers also suggest that the cells of chocolate consumers are less vulnerable to 'free radical' damage. Free radicals are unstable atoms or molecules that lack an electron. They 'steal' an electron from a neighbour, triggering a damaging chain reaction in surrounding biochemical compounds. But clearly, chocolate is not a 'health food'. Tissa Kappagoda from the University of California at Davis, a cardiologist who has studied flavonoids in grapes and cocoa is wary about studies that appear to validate the benefits of eating chocolate.
Many people cheerfully describe themselves as 'chocoholics'.
I don't think that chocolate produces anything comparable to these drugs.