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Comment by recursive

3 days ago

> I knew a woman who couldn't eat chocolate because she found the amount of caffeine to be too high.

I think the causality went the other way in that case. I've been roughly caffeine free at certain intervals. Never felt anything from chocolate.

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garciasn  3 days ago

Depends on the chocolate type and how much you're eating. Milk chocolate has very low levels (~2mg per 28oz), but dark chocolate is ~15mg per 28oz. Coffee, at 24oz, would be around 275mg, depending.

I find it hard to believe that some folks would feel the caffeine in chocolate unless they ate an entire dark chocolate bar in one sitting, but I suppose it's possible.

  • Kirby64  3 days ago

    You might want to double-check your figures.

    Ghiradelli claims their dark chocolate has 20mg per oz and their milk chocolate has 6 mg per ounce. [1]

    That would mean eating a standard 3.5oz/100g chocolate bar would have 70mg of caffeine for dark, or 21mg for milk.

    While 3.5oz is a lot in a sitting, 70mg is equivalent to a smallish cup of coffee.

    [1] https://www.ghirardelli.com/product-faqs#:~:text=Dark%20choc...

  • delecti  3 days ago

    I think that 28oz of dark chocolate, whether weight or volume, would be a ludicrous amount to eat in one sitting. A chocolate bar is about 1.5 oz (and 1 fluid ounce of water weighs 1 ounce, at least to a rough approximation), so to eat 28 you'd need to eat nearly 20 chocolate bars.

    For that matter 24oz is rather a lot of coffee to drink at once. I brew my daily coffee with 200g of water, or only about 7 floz.

    • garciasn  3 days ago

      While I realize I'm an outlier, I do NOT consider 24oz of coffee a lot, nor does anyone I know--that's literally a standard coffee cup at a coffee shop these days. At a minimum, I'm drinking 3 pots (~180oz) of coffee a day, with my usual being 3-4x that amount.

      So; with that said, while I believe that eating 28oz of chocolate is a lot, I guess it could happen :-)

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bryanlarsen  3 days ago

I went almost caffeine free at one point. I once got a good buzz from 300g of 90% chocolate.

I say "almost" caffeine free because I still regularly ate chocolate. So I still had a little tolerance. Yet the difference between 50g of milk chocolate and 300g of 90% was very noticeable.