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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Love, chocolate and caffeine
Keywords: phenylethylamine
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Date: 29 Jan 91 01:43:34 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:
>Theobromine is somewhat similar to caffeine in its pharmacological action,
>but the levels in modern day chocolate are much less active than the
>corresponding amounts of caffeine in, say, coffee.

In fact, theobromine is virtually inactive in any measure of typical
xanthine activity, compared to caffeine or theophylline.

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