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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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Theobromine is the main poisonous substance in chocolate. Theobromine is thought to have an LD50 of about 1,000 mg per kilogram of body weight in people.

On average, 100 grams of dark chocolate contain 150 mg of theobromine, however individual results may vary. Theoretically, an individual weighing roughly 70 kg (154 lbs) would have an LD50 of around 70,000 mg of theobromine. One would need to eat roughly 467 kg (1030 pounds) of dark chocolate to attain this amount. That is a huge sum that is nearly unattainable!

But long before consuming so much, one would experience various health problems brought on by consuming too many calories, sugars, and fats, as well as other possible toxins.