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Monday, September 3, 2007

Chocolate Does Not Contain Caffeine?

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.

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