Inhaling Chocolate

French chef Thierry Marx and Harvard professor of biomedical engineering David Edwards have invented a way to consume chocolate without calories. Le Whif is an aerosol inhaler that provides a puff of fine chocolate powder every time you get the cocoa urge. Each inhaler contains about 200 milligrams of chocolate powder, less than 1 calorie of chocolate, with four puffs per container.

To use, you place the device between your lips and inhale and the particles land on your tongue and the sides of your mouth, where you can taste them best. When you eat a chocolate bar, in contrast, much of the chocolate passes quickly through your mouth without spending much time on your taste buds. Le Whif allows you to inhale and savor. It comes in chocolate, chocolate mint and chocolate raspberry.

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My husband is a chemist and says: "Inhaling any particulate is a bad idea. Any inhaled particulate (like sand, sugar, glitter etc) will create micro-cuts in your lungs which over time can lead to a whole host of health problems, even cancer. Which is why all those kids snuffing pixie sticks and crushed smartees are in for a nasty surprise. Not to mention the irritants like acid (which you'll find in most candy including cocoa powder) which will settle in your lungs leading to all sorts of bacterial and fungal infections. The only thing you should be inhaling is air."
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BlessedBlogger - my thoughts exactly. OK, so chocolate is probably safer than many things - asbestos springs to mind - but I'm not sure I'd take the chance. Then again, you don't hear of industrial lung disease amongst chocolatiers, do you?

Perhaps a choccy mouthwash would be safer?
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THIS: “Inhaling any particulate is a bad idea."

I'm sure that some ambulance-chasing lawyer would LOVE to turn away from the declining numbers of asbestos cases and target a product still being manufactured.

Anyone sucking any kind of powder into their lungs is just asking for a case of lung cancer....
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Have a family member who worked for the company. They sell a ton. However, in my experience it just gives me a craving for a candy bar. BTW they also have mango flavor.
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FishBottleT: Well, at least if they snort it, the nostril hairs will catch most of the expanded chocolate powder. I'm sure that it would give you quite the uh... buzz...
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I had a test sample of this last spring. The first whiff: verrry chocolate-y, triggering all the senses except the mouth-feel. After 5 or 6 whiffs, all gone. Dunno what they are selling them for, but it was fun. Completely harmless, I was told.
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