Don’t put chocolate in the fridge and eat it before lunch for a lift

Nali’s Natalie Alibrandi helps the Telegraph set the records straight on the best way to store and enjoy chocolate.

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The wrong storage spoils the taste and eating too much at once ruins the sensory experience, Natalie Alibrandi advises.

Millions of people have been eating chocolate the wrong way, and putting it in the fridge is the biggest no-no, according to food experts.

Food scientist Natalie Alibrandi has revealed the most common mistakes people make when enjoying a sweet treat, including tucking into it at night and eating too much in one go.

And chocolate should not be stored in the fridge as humidity levels are too high.

Instead, the sweet spot in terms of optimum temperature was found to be 18C (64.4F).

The tell-tale signs your chocolate has been stored incorrectly include it lacking a sharp snap when you break a square off.

Poorly tempered chocolate will also be crumbly or melt too fast in your fingers.

Other perils of storing chocolate in the fridge are sugar blooms, oxidation and transfers of taste and odour to the chocolate.

Despite this, a study of 2,000 adults, commissioned by Galaxy, found 78 per cent of people confessed to storing their chocolate in the fridge.