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If you truly detox from caffeine even extremely small amounts will be noticeable. I knew a woman who couldn't eat chocolate because she found the amount of caff
by iteria 2y ago
If you truly detox from caffeine even extremely small amounts will be noticeable. I knew a woman who couldn't eat chocolate because she found the amount of caffeine to be too high. I didn't even know there was caffeine in chocolate.
- recursive 2y 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.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoI 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.
- isoprophlex 2y agoNot judging but to me 300 grams of chocolate, dark or otherwise, is an outright obscene amount
- bryanlarsen 2y agoGo ahead and judge. It was an obscene amount.
- garciasn 2y agoDepends 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.
- delecti 2y agoI 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 2y agoWhile 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 :-)
- recursive 2y agoHN is crazy for outliers. We have the lady who gets wired off a chocolate bar, and the guy who drinks over a gallon per day. But anyway, I've been to a coffee shop or two, and I've never seen a "standard cup" as anything other than 12 ounces.
- delecti 2y agoWait, on a typical day you're drinking 4-5.5 gallons of coffee? 180oz * 3-4? So 540-720oz? That's not just an outlier, that's absurd. At 100mg caffeine per 8oz of coffee, that's over 6 grams of coffee per day, or more than 15 times the amount generally considered safe.
- recursive 2y agoNot to diminish the outlandishness, but I think the parenthetical is misapplied. (3 pots of coffee) is about (180 oz).
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- gruez 2y ago>If you truly detox from caffeine even extremely small amounts will be noticeable. Maybe for a subset of people. Otherwise kids will be getting crazy jitters the first time they eat chocolate (presumably before they ever drank coffee/tea), which obviously doesn't happen.
- bee_rider 2y agoI recall preferring lighter chocolate as a kid. Maybe we’re accidentally providing kids with a slowly ramping caffeine tolerance, haha.