We've never considered chocolate to be a particularly difficult food to eat. In fact it may be the single-easiest food there is in this regard: you don't even have to chew it, all you have to do is move your tongue around slightly and swallow. Well, thankfully, there are those who are never satisfied with the status quo, with mediocrity, and they have forged into a bold new field of hassle-free consumption: inhalable chocolate.
In 2007, David Edwards, a biomedical engineer at Harvard University, gave his students a project: Develop a way to inhale food, rather than chewing and swallowing it. “They took a whiff of everything from pepper to carrots and coughed a lot,” Edwards says. Last fall, he introduced Le Whif, a lipstick-size inhaler that drops a delicious, one-calorie chocolate taste on your tongue.
That's right. Delicious chocolate taste, the inarguable simplicity of breathing, and only one guiltless calorie. There is nothing about this that could better. Edwards is also developing a technique by which a tuberculosis vaccine could be administered using Le Whif, so there are life-saving implications here as well. In the annals of things we didn't know we needed, inhalable chocolate may prove to be an item so fantastic and revolutionary we'll soon find ourselves as a society wondering how we ever lived without it, a and everything that existed beforehand will seem like a shadowy memory of a world little-worth remembering. The future is beautiful, and chocolatey, for everyone.
