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Good for Your Teeth (Kind of)
Bad For Your Dogs (Definitely)
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Does chocolate protect your teeth better than fluoride?
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Cocoa has theobromine, a molecule that is more effective at protecting teeth than fluoride. In fact, there’s even a toothpaste made from chocolate (sort of.) Theobromine is also the part of chocolate that is bad for your dogs. Dogs can’t metabolize the theobromine as quickly as we do which makes them susceptible to theobromine poisining.
(Incidentally, the sugar & other ingredients in the chocolate we eat isn’t good for your teeth, so don’t go thinking you can start brushing with Hershey’s.) 🙂
I am such a chocolate fan! This looks so good!!
Its good to know these facts! Thanks for sharing this post with us all :00)
I love chocolate and so does the rest of my family — thank yo for this information.
Ahh yes I love chocolates so this is pretty cool info!
Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE chocolate and this just gave me 7 more reasons to eat it! lol
Love chocolate…my son specially loves chocolate milk! Awesome info 🙂
We’re all chocolate fans. I’m glad to know it’s a good thing to substitute chocolate milk for sodas. I think kids drink way too many soda., Thanks for all the info.
While drinking choc. milk after a workout to help sore muscles might be better than drinking an energy drink (both items I disagree with) the problem with choc. milk is that it has much sugar in it.
You’re absolutely right. I actually prefer water over anything else when it comes to re-hydrating after workouts. I just found it so interesting that chocolate milk can help with muscle recovery.
A lot of these facts I didn’t know!
Some of the surprised me as we’ll – especially the one with a toothpaste made from cocoa! Who knew??
Interesting facts, thank you for sharing.
Love an excuse to hot the chocolate…
Great! I could never bet that a chocolate bar helped to invent the microwave oven. Chocolate is not just delicious, it may be usefull also – the perfect excuse to have a bar with me all the time… lol
I agree! Let’s all have a chocolate bar in honor of the microwave! LOL
What the chocolate temputure?