It Would Take 89 Chocolate Bars...

How could a product derived from the same plant as chocolate be such a powerful mood enhancer? The answer is that when the raw beans of Theobroma cacao are made into chocolate, they undergo a series of steps that destroy most of the naturally occurring compounds. The two processes which are most responsible for this destruction are roasting, which exposes the beans to high temperatures, and “dutching” which exposes the beans to a highly alkaline solution.

Fun Facts

To get the same mood enhancing benefits as 400mg of Cacolamine, one would have to eat over 89 bars of processed dark chocolate.

Theobroma cacao was considered to be a sacred plant by the Mayan civilization

Theobrama means 'Food of the Gods'

To get the same effect as 400mg of Cacolamine, one would have to eat over 89 bars of processed dark chocolate. The number is even higher for milk chocolate. Even raw chocolate which has been made from beans that are not roasted or dutched has a much lower concentration of the relevant compounds than Cacolamine because of the added fats and sugars and the fact that Cacolamine is a potent extract of the raw beans of Theobroma cacao.