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From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Screaming in Digital)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Love, chocolate and caffeine
Keywords: phenylethylamine
Message-ID: <15345@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 00:14:45 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.202142.13814@newcastle.ac.uk> <1991Jan28.110606.11803@cs.UAlberta.CA> <1203@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
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In article <1203@ai.cs.utexas.edu> throop@cs.utexas.edu (David Throop) writes:
>   Simple proof that chocolate doesn't contain caffeine:
>     If it did, somebody would be marketing a caffeine free chocolate.
assuming chocolate has caffeine in it, could you extract the caffeine?  

>     If somebody was marketing a caffeine free chocolate, I'd 
>       know about it.
>     I've never heard of such a thing.
>   ERGO
>     Chocolate doesn't contain caffeine.
    OR
      You can't extract caffeine from chocolate

The only real way to tell is to look up a chemical analysis of chocolate, if
its that important to you.

-- 
Lamont Granquist--lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu 
"I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth.  But, now
I've seen the payoffs everywhere I look--who do you trust when everyones a 
crook?" -- Queensryche, Revolution Calling.