The team behind the study determined for a pin-point why some foods are more intoxicated than others.
Using the Yale Food Addiction Scale, designed to measure a person’s dependence, scientists found that the cheese is particularly powerful because it contains casein.
The substance, which is present in all dairy products, can trigger opioid receptors of the brain that is associated with addiction.
The authors also found that processed foods were more associated with addictive behavior, with the most difficult to keep fatty foods down.
In addition, he found that top-ranked foods on the scale of addiction were cheese.
To make their findings, researchers asked 120 undergraduates to respond to the scale of yellow food addiction, and asked to select between 35 foods of different nutritional value, Technology reported.
Another part of the study consisted of 384 people who were presented with similar items of food, but in a hierarchical linear order.
The researchers behind the study published in the Public Library of Science One Journal found that the fat was associated with a problematic food whether the participants were accustomed to food or not.
One of the authors of the study, Erica Shulte said: “Fat looked equally approximate as a problematic food for all, whether they ‘experience the symptoms of food addiction.”
