Nutrition: Dark Chocolate Caffeine Overdose!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 11:53
Darryl Edwards in Caffeine, Chocolate, Health, Nutrition, Paleo
 

Are you eating dark chocolate at night, a few hours before you go to bed?

Do you know there is more caffeine (100mg) in 100g (3.5oz) of dark chocolate than in a 250ml can of red bull (80mg).  Even if you only eat a few chunks of dark chocolate at night  it is still likely to affect your deep and REM sleep.  As caffeine has a half-life of between 6 to 8 hours.

For comparison purposes there is about:
Getting a cup of brewed coffee from a coffee chain such as Starbucks - will range from 180mg to 415mg of Caffeine depending on the size.

Short - 180mg Tall - 260mg Grande - 330mg Vente - 415mg
Caffeine one of the only legal performance enhancing drugs not banned by (WADA) World Anti-Doping Agency.


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