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Why You Shouldn't Put a Banana in Your Smoothies: New Research on flavanol (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)

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Is Your Smoothie Sabotaging Your Health? The Truth About PPO and Flavan-3-ols Do you know anything about flavan-3-ols? These bioactive substances, which may be found in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, offer a wide range of health advantages. It turns out, however, that just combining fruits may not necessarily ensure that we obtain the full advantages of these substances. That's accurate! Just like a medical student's life involves more than just texts and anatomical illustrations, the

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Okay, so I read up on it (I'm that kind of guy).

Apparently the thing in chocolate that would kill you is theobromine, and it has an LD50 (lethal dose) of 1000mg per kg of body weight. If we're talking milk chocolate chips, they have 2.4 mg per gram. If you weigh 75 kg (165 pounds) you'd need to eat 75,000 mg of theobromine, which is about 31.25 kg, or just under 69 pounds. A chocolate chip weighs about 0.25 grams, so that's about 125,000 chips.

However, lots of other things in chocolate are going to make you barf your brains out before you can get anywhere close to that, so the likelihood is you can't kill yourself eating chocolate.

The best reference I found was this one.

[–] xantoxis 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like I need to put a lot more chocolate chips in my banana smoothies.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 3 points 1 year ago

Or go straight to the cocoa powder!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, I guess I’m gonna have to cut down a little then. Now can you do the same for the trace lead and cadmium?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 2 points 1 year ago

The problem there is that there really are no safe levels of lead - it stays in your body and builds up. The safe level of cadmium is 1 x 10^-3 mg/kg/day, so infinitesimally small.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

so the likelihood is you can’t kill yourself eating chocolate.

that sounds like a challenge

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 2 points 1 year ago

It isn't for lack of trying. (See username).