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, I was comparing the caffeine content to TEA not coffee.

According to your calculations, 4 oz of chocolate will give 20 -40 mg of

caffeine.

1 cup of Black tea infused for 5 minutes yields 40-100 milligrams, whereas a

3-minute infusion produces 20-40 milligrams, or half as much. green tea yields

about 12 milligrams per cup.

Therefore within certain variables tea and chocolate do in fact contain equal

amounts of caffeine. If one doesn't consume any caffeine and suddenly begins

eating chocolate, I can see how there may be some reaction to it.

Ross wrote:

>Nahla~ I read recently that ounce for ounce chocolate has as much

>caffeine as tea.

Not true.

From Wikipedia:

" There are 5 to 10 mg of caffeine in one ounce of bittersweet

chocolate, 5 mg in milk chocolate, and 10 mg in a 170 ml cup of

cocoa. There are 100 to 150 mg of caffeine in an 220 ml cup of

coffee, it would be necessary to eat more than a dozen chocolate bars

to get the same amount of caffeine as one cup of coffee. "

Chocolate also contains tryptophan (a precursor to serotonin) and

theobromine, a stimulant similar to caffeine, and phenylethylamine,

an amphetamine.

kind regards,

Nahla Abbo

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