In general the dry and dirty tongue always prefers tea to coffee, and will quite decline milk unless with tea ... among the sick shows the same thing. Cocoa is often recommended to the sick ...

Rosalind Baynham, first author on the paper, explained: "Flavanols are a type of compound that occur in different fruits, vegetables, tea ... milk as breakfast, and either a high-flavanol cocoa ...

Cocoa, Green Tea Might Counter Effects of 'Stress Eating ... and half a pint of whole milk for breakfast. The participants also were randomly assigned to drink cocoa either high or low in flavanols.