Chemistry for the day: Chocolate and caffeine poisoning

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As unbelievable as it is, there is such a thing as chocolate poisoning and it doesn’t just happen to dogs but also in humans. What causes this is the theobromine that’s found in chocolates, teas, sodas and some other foods, but mostly in chocolate since it is chocolate’s main constituent. Cocoa beans already contain a lot of theobromine, and that amount is reduced as it’s processed so luckily, it’s not something to worry about.

Aside from theobromine, dogs also can’t consume caffeinated items so don’t you dare give your pets caffeinated food- theobromine and chocolate actually have very similar structures that’s why to humans, both chocolate and coffee are equally as addicting, and to animals, is equally as toxic.

 For humans, it’s normally not a huge threat since we don’t really consume raw cocoa, chocolate or coffee  in ridiculously large quantities, plus we have the enzymes needed to digest it at least, but what about the dogs and other animals? They don’t really have the enzymes we have. Feeding dogs chocolate is basically like wanting to feed humans grass. We won’t be able to eat it and will probably just throw it up.

This is the amount of chocolate that a dog or any other pet will be able to consume before any symptoms show (the level followed for caffeine is the one for sweet cocoa since caffeine has a stronger effect than chocolate) but you'll honestly just know that they've eaten over their body limit when they start vomiting ;-;

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Wow nice detailed explanation on how and why the chocolate is poisonous for dogs. I wonder if dogs do like chocolate or not?

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I think they would it's just that we shouldn't feed them for their own safety but it's not just dogs but a lot of other animals also can't eat chocolates ;-;

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4 years ago

Good to know that. One of my friends used to have a dog and I knew about this fact from him some years back

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4 years ago

We just know the fact but we never really know why. I think if people knew why, they'd be more cautious

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4 years ago

I didn't know this for sure. Chocolate is so yum. Could those who are allergic to chocolate considered as poisoned by chocolate if they eat them?

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Not really? Usually chocolate allergy is related to it's other components like in gluten, milk stuff but rarely with theobromine. Though i don't count allergies as a form of poisoning too somehow ;-;

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At first i thought may be this article is some generic one as in for the chocolate and caffeine addicts lol.

Pretty informative though

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Nah, that one is too hard to explain because the brain is hard to understand :""

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4 years ago

And yet we only use about 3. Something percent of our brains lol

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4 years ago

Who says??? We use the full brain capacity though ;-;

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4 years ago

Nooooo, we don't, there was a theory about einstein that he managed to use around 4 percent of his brain which made him a genius

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4 years ago

I need to look this up tomorrow :""" it sounds cool but i need sleep soon

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4 years ago

Take a nap, we can talk about it anytime

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4 years ago

Informative post. Thanks for sharing. 💕

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4 years ago

You're welcome

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4 years ago

♥♥

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4 years ago

I love meticulous blogs. Experienced hand, quality work.

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4 years ago

Would this count as one of those?

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4 years ago

I'm not actually into sweets but mehhh coffee is life, but now huehue i managed to drink coffee every twice or thrice in a week, samantalang dati i can consume 2 cups almost every day i miss it tho huehue

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You and me both 😂 school is so stressful that you need that much coffee just to make it through the day. Don't worry tho, it takes like 50 cups for a body to reach toxicity point so we're still good

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4 years ago

Happy to know that but ughh my stomach won't let me as much as that

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4 years ago

Is it because of the dairy in it? 😂

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I'm such an acidic person, i don't know it's because of that,😂

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Ahh acidosis. must be your diet ;-; try to drink calamansi in the morning or lemon water if you can

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I'm afraid i can't handle it also, i was hospitalize i guess last month for just drinking small amount of dalandan juice😥

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Feels like you have ulcer because the food you can't handle are adding up to that ;-;

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4 years ago

Malaoit na maging ganun huehue pero medical test suggest wala man daw pero maging cautious na sa pagkain and wag magpalipas

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4 years ago

You really need to take care of your diet then. No acidic foods for you UmU

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4 years ago

Haii😫😌

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4 years ago

Can you please sometimes explain why I feel sleepy after drinking coffee? 😂 Di tumatalab sakin yung mga caffeine :((

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4 years ago

Pag inaantok ka immediately after, oxygen redistribution yun because the oxygen in the blood gets transported to where it's most needed, in that case, stomach. Because of that, nababawasan ng oxygen yung utak kaya ka inaantok pero pag wala talaga effect sa'yo, you're probably immune to caffeine

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4 years ago

Oh, I see. Thanks sa explanation :))

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4 years ago

Will always be down to answer questions UwU

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