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Have you tried cacao / chocolate instead of caffeine? Less unpleasant side effects in my experience.


Cacao contains caffeine.


It's a bit different: it's the bitter alkaloid theobromine, in the same family but with a lesser effect. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine


It contains theobromine and caffeine.

First google result: https://www.dandelionchocolate.com/2015/09/14/caffeine-and-c...


I'm not sure the chocolatier's site with no numbers or data is a good reference. This study shows the ratio of theobromine to caffeine is like between 2.5:1 and 25:1, with most between 5:1 and 10:1 [1]. To your point it's not zero, but it's by far the minority bitter alkaloid constituent.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2621....




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