What plant is chocolate made from?
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Theobroma cacao, commonly known as the cacao plant.\nIt produces large seed pods, the seeds within (nibs) are used to make chocolate.\nThe plant grows into a small tree, and the pods can be yellow, brown, or green.
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http://estore.vzwshop.com/chocolate/
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Physical Properties: Delicious!\nChemical Properties: Delicious!\n\nI dont understand what youre really asking - its fats, sugar and \ncocoa mixed together.\n\nChemistry wise, its a mixture.\nPhysicists don't care for the properties of chocolate but for its taste which they define to be "tasty-good"
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Specifically a good dark chocolate. Every day chocolate (like what you see in the check out lines)  doesn't have enough real Theobroma Cacao in it to give the effects of enhancing libido.\n\nBut then again, I get pretty excited over any damn box o' chocolates
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Chocolate for PMS reasons. keeps the kids away from it.
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guatemalian chocolate is goooodddddd!
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chocolate-vanilla-peach-strawberry
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Chocolate. the cacao bean is a fleshy pod given off by the cacao tree. the europeans discovered chocolate from the south americans, and made it sweet
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energy giving food  = chocolate (carbohydrates and fats)\n \nbody building =  tuna (protein  25%)\nprotection =   fruits and vegetables(fiber  and vitamins and essential minerals and microminerals)
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There is a chemical in Chocolate called Thrombine, it causes the digestive tract in the dog to be irritated, the dogs heart in response to this starts to beat faster. In an old dog this can cause the heart to stop.  It is infact true that chcolate is poisoness to humans as well but we would have to eat 22 punds of it in 1 go to be fatal
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Chocolate contains a neuro-transmitter, seratonin which acts as an anti-depressant. Here's a website to look at for more information: http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa013100a.htm
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Chocolate has many different effects on the body but if you're looking for the "high" from anandamide you won't get it that way.  You'd have to eat several pounds.  Besides that there are other properties in chocolate that stop the absorption of anandamide.\n\nCHOCOLATE : the Psychoactive Cocktail\n        Chocolate contains small quantities of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid found in the brain. Skeptics claim one would need to consume several pounds of chocolate to gain any very noticeable psychoactive effects; and eat a lot more to get fully stoned. Yet it's worth noting that N-oleolethanolamine and N-linoleoylethanolamine, two structural cousins of anandamide present in chocolate, both inhibit the metabolism of anandamide. It has been speculated that they promote and prolong the feeling of well-being induced by anandamide.
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Chocolate!!!!!!! Chocolate flavor is almost every candy, ice-cream, way too many variety of food for chocolate, and vanilla is for only ice cream, and coca cola.
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There are three separate questions here.\n\n1) Chocolate liquor is made by grinding up cocoa nibs. Nibs are the "meat" of the cocoa bean. Everything that is made with real chocolate (i.e., is not artificially flavored) is derived from chocolate liquor. The liquor can be separated into cocoa butter and cocoa powder (using some sort of hydraulic press), or it can be used to make chocolate for eating and/or cooking.\n\n2) There are several chemicals in chocolate that affect brain and body chemistry, caffeine, theobromine (both methylxanthines), phenyethlyamine, and anandamide among them. Caffeine is a stimulant but theobromine is not and its exact effect is less well understood. Phenylethylamine affects serotonin levels in the brain, and anandamide affects THC receptors.\n\n3) Dogs are hypersensitive to theobromine provoking an allergic-type reaction that overstimulates the nervous system. Hyperventilation and elevated heart rate are two symptoms. If the dog consumes enough theobromine (relative to their weight), they can die from cardiac stress.
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This chemical is phenylethylamine.  It is a stimulant, but it is the same chemical that your brain produces and uses.  It functions similarly to an amphetamine.\n\nOn the ingredient label of a popular weight-loss supplement at a grocery store, I saw cocoa extract.\n\nThere are three stimulants that I know of in chocolate:  caffeine, phenylethylamine, and theobromine.  This extract in the supplement that I saw must be high in one of these stimulants, or they wouldn't have even put it in there.  And caffeine is probably not the one, because cocoa only has a smidgen of caffeine, and that would be an EXTREMELY expensive way to get caffeine.
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No one knows for sure. Scientist can't find a real connection other than the caffeine in the chocolate. But with all the woman who "MUST HAVE CHOCOLATE!" it is hard to ignore it.\n\nIf caffeine is so bad, then why do ALL of the leading over-the-counter meds for menstrual cramps contain high doses of caffeine? Come on, caffeine is a natural pain killer, always has been.
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I think they are referring to the dark chocolate which is 70% and not the milk chocolate.\nCacao has antioxidants which helps to decrease blood pressure and improve the circulation.\n\nThe Mayas called the raw cocoa "food of the gods" they produced the chocolate from the tree which has pods the size of a soccer ball.\n\nStudy with the Kuna Indians have shown that if they drink commercial cocoa the is a significant rise in their blood pressure.\n\nSo it looks like raw dark chocolate does have a few benefits provided of course you take in moderation.