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Inhaler Gives Chocolate Taste, With No Calories

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 10, 2009 6:38 PM CDT

(Newser) – A Harvard prof has created a device that allows people to guiltlessly inhale chocolate, the Telegraph reports. Called Le Whif, the inhaler delivers the taste of chocolate without any calories. “Eating was tending toward breathing,” David Edwards said, “so, with a mix of culinary art and aerosol science, we’ve helped move eating habits to their logical conclusion.”

“It fills your mouth with almost pure chocolate—it tastes really good," another Le Whif team member says. "But chocolate is only the beginning. Two Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx is even working with us to develop meals, such as a mint-flavoured inhaler to go alongside his lamb dishes. Eventually we could be having three course meals this way."

College students wrestle in a wading tub full of Hershey's chocolate syrup.
College students wrestle in a wading tub full of Hershey's chocolate syrup.   (AP Photo)
Scientists have come up with an inhaler that delivers this same taste, but without all the guilt.
Scientists have come up with an inhaler that delivers this same taste, but without all the guilt.   (AP Photo)
Le Whif comes in four flavors of chocolate powder: raspberry, mint, mango and plain.
Le Whif comes in four flavors of chocolate powder: raspberry, mint, mango and plain.   (LeWhif.com)
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COMMENTS
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Derni
Apr 11, 2009 12:33 PM CDT
Dittio-next we'll be getting an inhaler that is a subsitute for sex-I'll eat the real think
riffran
Apr 11, 2009 11:23 AM CDT
the two chocolate coverd college students wouldn't be bad either..rofl.....
riffran
Apr 11, 2009 5:33 AM CDT
all sarcasm aside.....I do luvs the chocolate too...I make a mean french vanilla marble swirl cheesecake, with 6 different dark chocolate blend mixed with apricot preserves to glaze it with.......yummmmmm mee

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