You might devour the whole cookie, break it open and lick off the filling first, or dip it into a cold glass of milk — but it doesn't matter how you eat Oreos because any way you bite them the iconic chocolate cookies are as addictive as cocaine, reports a new study. According to Gawker, Jamie Honohan, a neuroscience major at Connecticut College, concluded from a study he conducted that Oreo cookies can be addictive on a level similar to cocaine. Honohan originally came up with the experiment as a way to look at how unhealthy foods affect neighborhoods with lower-income residents.
The study used rats as test subjects and a maze was constructed to that had rice cakes on one side and Oreos on the other. All the rats went for the Oreo, which isn't particularly shocking, especially given the fact that the only other option was rice cakes. But the real surprise came when the students compared their study to another research experiment in which rats where given cocaine or morphine on one end of the maze and harmless saline on the other. All of Honohan's Oreo-choosing rats spent just as much time on the Oreo side of the maze as the rats in the other study did on the cocaine side of the maze. Additionally the Oreos, "activated significantly more neurons than cocaine or morphine."
What do you think of the study's findings? Are they enough to convince you that Oreos are truly that addictive?
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