This is a CHOCOLATE NEWS GROUP --
ISN'T IT OUR JOB TO KILL THIS RUMOUR??
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Chocolate does not contain Caffeine.
This is from http://www.xocoatl.org/caffeine.htm
There is a persistent urban legend that Chocolate contains caffeine.
It would seem that this rumor is based primarily on a confusion
between two similar alkaloids: caffeine and Theobromine.
Theobromine is the active ingredient in Chocolate and it occurs only
in Cacao. The two stimulants are related and have a similar
structures, but are very different chemicals with different
properties, effects and origins.
There are of course, some Chocolate products that have added caffeine,
but it does not occur naturally in Chocolate.
This rumor seems to have a life of its own; it won't go away and yet
most references to it are references to the urban legend itself!
Amusingly, almost all of the Chocolate & caffeine references on the
Internet are circular. (Follow the references through a few links
sometime -- you often wind up back at the page where you began!!)
It is actually quite common to see references that confuse Caffeine
and Theobromine. Many people and some semi-scientific sources confuse
the two.
Stollwerck, for example, says in one place Chocolate contains 1.2%
Theobromine and 0.2% Caffeine, but in another place it says just 1.4%
Caffeine and doesn't mention Theobromine, which is obviously wrong.
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Dr Dean Edell has mentioned the same thing on his Radio Program
There is not any appreciable caffeine in Chocolate
Tell your friends .. phone your family .. get on Oprah ... Take a
chocolate bar to lunch .. TELL THE WORLD !!!
There ain't no caffeine in chocolate
(Sheez .. you'd think a Newsgroup dedicated to all things chocolate
would know better!!)
thanx
dave
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