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Fact or Fiction: Chocolate more effective than cough syrup?

Posted at 1:48 PM, Jan 17, 2019
and last updated 2019-01-17 16:48:26-05

(KGTV) - Have researchers really found that chocolate is a better cough suppressant than cough syrup?

Yes!

British researchers gave cough patients either Codeine or a chocolate-based medicine.

The patients who took the chocolate reported significant improvement compared to those who took the cough syrup.